Posted on 10/18/2004 8:03:17 PM PDT by Byron Norris
Charles Duelfer told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month he could not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria.
Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, said at the Oct. 6 hearing 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 UN 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 UN 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.
No he isn't. He is the biggest capitalist a-hole making millions off the idiots of the left.
He [Bashir Assad] has been warned at least twice.
ISAIAH 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Don't shoot me but I saw "Team America" this weekend and the funniest part in the movie is when Hanz Blix is talking to the villian Kim John Ill, aside from the Michael Moore fantacism thing, (by the way the movie spends more time mocking Liberals then Conservatives) about WMDs and Ill gets Blix to stand a little to the right where he drops the floor and puts him in the shark tank. Funny stuff.
Well, true, true. He just abuses our system to get his own self loathing message out.
The question BEGS... WHY DID THE MILITARY/CIA/BUSH ADMINISTRATION LET THIS HAPPEN????
Syria tested chemical arms on civilians in Darfur region: press -- Channel News Asia
I wonder where the Syrians got their WMD? Maybe Saddam's lieutenants weren't kidding when they told him "All has been evacuated."
But imagine how many people around the world who might have been duped -- having thought Saddam had WMD based on defector testimony, equipment and materials purchases, written plans -- some destroyed immediately after Baghdad's capture, in tact research teams, coordination with al-Qaeda operatives seeking supplies -- that is, motive, means and history -- only to find no large stockpiles of biochem stockpiles, just small stockpiles, some in laboratories, most of weaponized quality.
Ping in case you didn't see the article...
Interesting note in discussion about Syria testing chemical weapons in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
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the story is also related to, and linked at, http://freedomkeys.com/secrethistory.htm
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