Do you have a link to information regarding the second part of your post above??
I've come up with a blog site called The Jawa Report which references AFP (Agence France Press). Another was posted at a Lebanese site: http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/2004/April/April8/april8.html.
There are far more numerous articles, of course, that refer to the truck convoys seen leaving Iraq for Syria and the Bekaa Valley prior to the 2003 invasion, as well as "unnamed" intelligence sources saying those trucks carried components of Saddam's WMD programs. But if I went to far in bringing up what may have been unsubstantiated rumors, then I apologize to all.