Posted on 01/28/2006 7:02:16 PM PST by hubbubhubbub
An Iraqi air force general with information on Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction is scheduled to meet with Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) next week. It seems that the Iraq WMD controversy is about to crack open once more. In a book titled Saddam’s Secrets, Gen. Georges Sada claims that Saddam Hussein moved weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to Syria prior to the American invasion. According to Sada, two cargo aircraft made 56 flights to Syria. They were carrying “yellow barrels with skull and crossbones on each barrel.” There was also a truck convoy.
Sada is not the first person to make this claim. On 23 December 2002, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon publicly stated, “Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria.” Last month, former Israeli Defense Force chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, claimed that Saddam Hussein moved chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before American forces entered Iraq.
American officials have also commented on this information. After searching for WMDs in Iraq, U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said, “There is ample evidence of [weapons] movement to Syria before the war – satellite photographs, reports on the ground of a constant stream of trucks, cars, rail traffic across the boarder.” Kay also said the Syrian government was not cooperative “in helping us resolve this issue.” In August, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (now Secretary of State) said, “We still don’t have clarity about what role Syria may have played in the movement of weapons one way or another before the war.”
The Syrians, of course, deny any receipt of Iraqi WMDs. But their denial is not credible. The Syrian regime is a totalitarian dictatorship with close ties to Moscow and Tehran. Like Russia and Iran, Syria is helping the insurgency in Iraq. And so far, the United States has been unwilling to confront Moscow on its connivance According to Bill Gertz, writing in the Washington Times on Oct. 28, 2004, “Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam’s weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation….”
The battle in the Middle East is not against a rogue regime or two. The battle is against a Russian-led alliance that refrains from publicly announcing its own existence. The longstanding coordination between Baghdad, Damascus, Tehran and Moscow should be famous. But who wants to acknowledge the truth? Who dares to understand? Even the president doesn’t want to admit what the U.S. is up against in Iraq. And here comes an Iraqi general with information about Iraqi WMDs going to Syria. What chance does the poor man have?
For nearly three years Gen. Sada has kept silent, fearing for the safety of his family. Now Sada has written a book, and America’s enemies are watching to see how U.S. officials react. In other words, Sada’s testimony is a kind of indicator. If it is used by the administration to vindicate the Iraq invasion, then it follows that President Bush is ready to move against Syria and Iran. But if President Bush and his advisors ignore Sada’s testimony, it is a sign that the administration is worn out by criticism and incapable of smashing America’s enemies.
Another surprising fact is that such little attention is given to the terrorist training camps that clearly existed in Iraq.
Sada is on Fox now. He said that sadman shipped the wmds to syria in 2002 and he knows the people that actually performed the moving. It's our move.
"Demorats don't want to hear the truth."
Oh, they get their truth from Joe Wilson, Ray McGovern, and Mother Sheehan.
"Is there any way you could pass this info along to your leftist pals - just to calm them down?"
They'll say it's all a lie. They get the "truth" from the Daily Kos.
If the WMDs are in Syria, we should attack it and destroy those weapons.
Yeah, I remember hearing from Oliver North the first time he came back about how he had actually been inside caves in Iraq that were once fully operational terrorist cells. He said he saw maps, blueprints, and detailed plans about attacks against American and Western targets. Those cells have been shut down now.
Yeah, but Saddam had those weapons before we attacked Iraq. The threat was imminent, as I recall it. Now there is an imminent threat from Syria, I think. And if Syria moves those WMDs to Jordan, then Jordan too becomes an imminent threat, so we attack Jordan, etcetera.
I agree.
He was right before he lied. :)
>Obviously a disgruntled Iraqi general who was probably passed over for a promotion and now he has an axe to grind.
He was on the Monica Crowley show this morning and the good general said he has no ax to grind, only a book.
I doubt that. The left has a lot invested in their mantra and have basically won the case that there were no WMD's in Iraq because the Iraq Survey Group(ISG) did not find any and the administration did not push the point that there was likely WMD transfer to Syria.
The Administration has no way to prove the Syrian angle short of another war and they do not have support for one.
The only other way that proof might be obtained would be a high level Syrian defector with evidence that would be convincing. Per General Sada:
Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says
"..Mr. Sada said that the Iraqi official responsible for transferring the weapons was a cousin of Saddam Hussein named Ali Hussein al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali." The Syrian official responsible for receiving them was a cousin of Bashar Assad who is known variously as General Abu Ali, Abu Himma, or Zulhimawe..."
Obviously as an arch war criminal, Chemical Ali won't talk. He has nothing to gain. The Syrian, General Abu Ali, is inaccessable. You can bet any transfer to Syria would have been handled by the most diehard members of the Syrian regieme and even if one did talk he would not be believed, especially by those who are so invested in the notion that Iraq had no WMDs. I doubt that most of them actually believe Iraq did not have them. I believe the worst. They use this to attack the war and the administration.
1000-1 odds he never is on DNCixty Minutes!! The New News is getting his story out.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Wasn't this in some of the video evidence Colin Powell was showing, when he brought the case for war to the UN?
I seem to remember something to that.
Powell had satellite photos, not the details of an air transfer.
These things are not necessarily so.
They could ignore Sada because Sada could be wrong, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
ah, thanks.
But if word should leek out, the Leftists will still not know about it. They have their eyes squeezed shut, their fingers in their ears, and their brains turned off. They DO NOT WANT TO KNOW! IS THAT CLEAR?
What if the Oscars were interrupted by a WMD?
What Sadr says at this point is of little consequence. The 800 lb gorilla is the literally millions of Iraqi Defense Ministry documents seized shortly after the invasion. Some have been translated but as Stephen Hayes has indicated are being closely held by the administration. To what end? Only Bush and his close circle know.
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