Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says

http://www.nysun.com/article/26514 ^ | IRA STOLL

[mal]

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

[ferri]

that's where i have always thought they were. remember when we were getting ready to head over there again, the lines of semi's with trailors heading for Syria? what the heck did everyone think was in there???

[jslade]

Thanks for warning them JAY ROCKEFELLAR.

[kublia khan]

I heard that this guy appeared on Hannity and Colmes last evening. Anyone know what kind of coronary Colmes suffered?

[Steely Tom]

Hannity's liberal opposite number was not Colmes. I think it was Bob Beckel.

Here is a link.

(steely)

[kublia khan]

thanks

[injin]

Beckel is so full of it , his eyes are brown .
For him to term conservatives as 'blowhards' is truly a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I was hoping Hannity would remove his shoe and smack the moron in the mouth with it....

[SeaBiscuit]

Syria seemed obvious to me, but I have to wonder if this guy is just selling books..

[CholeraJoe]

Well, duh. Known this for years.

[DoughtyOne]

[borisbob69]

Another opportunity for the MSM to gloss over/ignore a story that in any way supports Dubya and his decision to remove Saddam.

Move along...nothing to see here...

I can see the glaring lack of press coverage on this as I type!

[hershey]

Everyone knows this, but Libs won't admit it. It's more important to vilify the US President who's moving heaven and earth to protect free people.

[13Sisters76]

I'm still amazed by those who make the claim that saddam didn't have WMD's, since our military couldn't "find them". Of COURSE they are in Syria- or the Pakistani border, or Egypt, or Lebanon, or somewhere ELSE where we could not get at them. Saddam was a monster, but never accused of being stupid.
That claim could certainly be made against those in this country who gleefully (and stupidly) mug for the camera and ask "where are the WMD's"?
My favorite question to one of them is WHAT do THEY think a WMD IS? And what is it they imagine killed all those Kurds?

[dbehsman]

"Thanks for warning them JAY ROCKEFELLAR."

You got that right! We also owe a great big thank you to the U.N. and especially France and Germany for dragging their heals for almost a year, delaying us before we could catch Hussein red handed. Another big thank you has to go to the establishment media and the Hollywood glitterati.

All of these bums were on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of humanity.

[ThirstyMan]

Of COURSE they are in Syria- or the Pakistani border, or Egypt, or Lebanon, or somewhere ELSE where we could not get at them. Saddam was a monster, but never accused of being stupid.

It make no sense to me. What's the purpose of having WMD's if you don't use them to protect your sovereignty? I must be thinking like a Westerner because it seems plenty stupid from where I sit.

[Preachin']

Maybe the Iraqis had not developed a suitable method to deploy the weapons, yet.

[dbehsman]

That's a very good question. I don't know what Hussein was thinking pre-liberation. I do know that some of our guys dug up a few jet fighters that had been buried in the desert since 1991.

I think Hussein may have been thinking to himself that he knew he wouldn't win in a war against the United States. If he got the weapons out of the country, he could then appeal to the United Nations to have him reinstated as president of Iraq. Also it would be a little bit of egg on the face of the U.S. to the rest of the world if the weapons were not found. If Hussein used the weapons during the liberation, then he would have lost all moral high ground and lost any chance to appeal to the U.N.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm still amazed by those who make the claim that saddam didn't have WMD's, since our military couldn't "find them".

And I'm amazed at people who make the claim that Saddam Hussein did have WMDs despite the fact that they haven't been found. When a country wages a "pre-emptive" war against another country like the U.S. has in this case, it is up to the U.S. to prove that the basis for that war was legitimate . . . and wild speculation about where these so-called WMDs are does not amount to proof in any sense of the word. Quite frankly, I think anyone who believes that a head of state would move his most effective means of defense outside his country -- while he himself crawled down a hole as an invading army toppled his regime -- is pretty damned naive.

I'd also point out that this war was a dismal failure on the part of the U.S. if we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of U.S. lives over these WMDS -- only to have them spirited out of the country without our knowledge.

[johnny7]

I heard his uterus was ruptured.

[eastforker]

If it could have been proven that they originated in Russia, wich I believe they were, then it was a must that we did not find them in Iraq. If you remember, it was the Russians that moved them to Syria and we allowed them to do it.