Posted on 10/16/2004 7:36:01 AM PDT by Anduril1
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'
Posted: October 16, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Oct. 6, Charles Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, did not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.
Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war.
"A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."
The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Duelfer, said Russia, Syria, Jordan and other arms suppliers were paid from Iraqi oil revenues.
A CIA report, authored by the Iraq Survey Group, identified Russia and Syria atop a list of 12 arms suppliers to Iraq until the U.S.-led war against Baghdad started in March 2003.
The report listed Russia and Syria above North Korea — regarded as the leading missile proliferator to the Middle East — as leading suppliers to Baghdad.
Jordan was the third largest supplier of weapons to Iraq.
After Jordan came Belarus, China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France, Romania and Turkey. The report said these countries were involved in both "weapons of mass destruction and arms-related procurement."
The report said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay for both conventional and nonconventional weapons and components.
The report said state-owned companies in Russia and Syria defied U.N. sanctions and supplied weapons and platforms to Baghdad. The report said Syria also served as the leading route for illegal arms supplies from Europe and other countries.
Several of Iraq's neighbors were said to have joined in the secret military effort to aid Baghdad. The report — based on interviews with senior Iraqi officials and 40 million pages of documents and classified intelligence — cited Jordan and Turkey as leading suppliers to the Saddam regime.
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Why can't the left see this?
October 31 seems like a good day to move into Syria and secure all the transfered materials.
"We evacuated everything. We don't have anything left."
POWELL: Note what he says: "We evacuated everything." We didn't destroy it. We didn't line it up for inspection. We didn't turn it into the inspectors. We evacuated it to make sure it was not around when the inspectors showed up.
Full text here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.powell.transcript.02/
They HAVE seen it, but they don't want us to see it cuz if we do then everyone will know that Bush was right all along and Kerry was wrong all along. And if Bush was right, then he'd get elected all the easier.
Ahh, it comes into focus now................
What has been suggested will result in another Vietnam, with a permanent presence indefinitely in a country where we wanted to plant the seed of freedom and then get out of the way. The problem with the suggestion is that it is not possible to both help a nation and do the job for them, without defeating our own purpose. If they are to be a free, indepedent people, we must give them the tools to fight those who will not freedom to foster. I am not speaking of military.
Time will tell if freedom will take root in Iraq. If the assumption is made, to support the suggestion, that gradual elimination of terrorists will bring freedom, it is false. We cannot keep more terrorists out from Iraqi's borders than we kill. Thus, gradual cleansing is a faulty argument.
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