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Yossef Bodansky, Director, Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and author of The Secret History of the Iraq War (READ excerpts HERE), said on the radio to Roger Hedgecock, "The evidence [of Saddam's moving WMDs to Syria from August to December of 2002 and his collaboration with Al Qaeda] is overwhelming."
A couple of callers tried to bring up these points on the Art Bell Show (he's anti-Iraq war). He said nonsense, if Saddam had weapons he would have used them, not sent them to Syria.
Another caller tried to tell him about the UN Oil for Food Scandal. Unfortunately, the caller was inarticulate. Bell said he never heard anything about it. Besides, so what? Everybody is always trying to work a deal.
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A lot of people bag on Debka, but I remember them talking about this a LONG time ago. I'm still looking for the archive.
After ( Syria and Russia and...) 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.
So, after the full bloom of Oil4Palaces, Saddam was actively developing WMD. I'd send a "heads up" to Carl Levin, but the man is obviously geaf.
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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.Interesting. The Jordanian connection at least makes sense -- Jordan is landlocked, and has very little trade with its hostile neighbors, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Turkish bootleg trade was very important to the Iraqi economy, and of course Saddam's family looked the other way in exchange for a cut of the graft. The author of "Saddam's Bombmaker" smuggled himself out of Iraq into Turkey.
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**Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'**
Hmmmmm Follow the trail.
The link below takes you to a thread I posted this morning re a FoxNews special one hour program last night on this Oil for Food Scam.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248691/posts
Oil-for-Food Scandal Key to CIA Report
Fox News ^ | 18 October 2004 | Fox News Staff
Posted on 10/18/2004 7:52:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
Oil-for-Food Scandal Key to CIA Report Monday
The U.N. Oil-for-Food program — already the subject of federal, congressional and United Nations financial abuse probes — took a fresh hit with an explosive new report that said Saddam Hussein was using the program to fund his ambitions.
The report looking into whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — found that Saddam was able to "subvert" the $60 billion U.N. program to generate an estimated $1.7 billion in revenue outside U.N. control from 1997-2003.
In light of the report, FOX News presents another hour-long special investigating the biggest financial scam in modern history. Learn more about the Duelfer report by reading it for yourself through the links in the actual link.
The roots of the Oil-for-Food scandal date back to 1991, when a U.N.-backed and U.S.-led coalition expelled Saddam from Kuwait following his hostile takeover of the neighboring country.
Although Saddam lost the war, he walked away with important victories — he got to stay in power in Iraq and he ultimately got to pocket millions, if not billions, of dollars. Read more here.
Did Terrorists Benefit From Oil-for-Food? U.S. Treasury officials have already identified 11 front companies and nearly 200 Iraqi-controlled firms that they suspect were part of Saddam's secret and illegal network. They say that's only the tip of the iceberg. Read more here. Iraqi People Suffered Under Oil-for-Food In the Saddam era, Baghdad's Al Rashid Hotel was the main stop on the Oil-for-Food tour. Regime-friendly types would stay there when visiting Baghdad. They'd stop and say hello to Saddam or a crony, snag a voucher good for a load of Iraqi crude and, conveniently enough, there were oil traders in the lobby of that hotel who could turn those vouchers into cash.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248691/posts
You bet a lot of material was moved out of Iraq...My God!!!...with the dog and pony show of "U.N. inpectors in and U.N. inspectors out" that went on for weeks...They had plenty of time to scatter stuff all over hell and gone!!!
This does it! Today I'm voting early, for Bush. FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
the story is also related to, and linked at, http://freedomkeys.com/secrethistory.htm
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