[samadams2000]

And where does our great satelite imagery tell us it went???? Are we asleep at the wheel again?

[June Cleaver]

We have lots of capability, but that does not mean we can track every truck movement throughout a country the size of Iraq. Satellites make passes over an area, etc, and thus you get limited hours and locations. To track these trucks to their eventually destination, especially when at that time we were not certain what was in them, would have likely required our "focusing" extra intel capability/satellite imagery capacity on just those trucks, at the expense of many other areas we were watching.

Many people think we can watch everything all the time. Not true. We have great capability, but for limited durations of time and we must prioritize what we are looking at---you can not see everything at once. Sort of like looking outside with a telescope. What you see you see well...but you do not see 100% of what is out there.

[cookcounty]

"And where does our great satelite imagery tell us it went???? Are we asleep at the wheel again?"

In the case of Al QaQaa, it's a fixed position, much easier to zoom in on with every pass. It's a lot harder to reaquire a moving vehicle when it takes 90 minutes for the satellite to orbit and be in position again

[boxerblues]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1011035/posts?page=13#13

Debka readers read about this on May 4, 2003.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=482

Syria is reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources as having secretly disposed of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction by moving them into eastern Lebanon for burial in the Beqaa Valley. Iraq’s biological weapons may be there too. They were interred deep under the heroin poppy and cotton fields in two of the most fertile regions of Lebanon: the valley stretching between Jabal Akroum, the town of al Qbayyat and the Syrian border, and the land lying between the towns of Al Hirmil and al Labwah between the Orontes River and the Syrian frontier.

On February 14, about a month before the start of the war in Iraq, DEBKA-Net-Weekly Issue 97 ran an article captioned “Is Iraq’s WMD cache in Lebanon available to Al Qaeda?”

Now, our intelligence sources can disclose exclusively that the relocation of Iraq’s WMD systems took place between January 10 and March 10 and was completed just 10 days before the US-led offensive was launched against Iraq. The banned arsenal, hauled in giant tankers from Iraq to Syria and from there to the Bekaa Valley under Syrian special forces and military intelligence escort, was discharged into pits 6-8 meters across and 25-35 meters deep dug by Syrian army engineers. They were sealed and planted over with new seedlings. Nonetheless, their location is known and detectable with the right instruments. Our sources have learned that Syria was paid about $35 million to make Saddam Hussein’s forbidden weapons disappear.


13 posted on 10/29/2003 9:31:15 PM PST by FairOpinion
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[Coop]

And where does our great satelite imagery tell us it went???? Are we asleep at the wheel again?

Why don't you tell us, Professor, since you're obviously such an intel expert?