Posted on 04/23/2007 11:00:26 AM PDT by jveritas
Iran did not give him back his airplanes after the Gulf war was over.
Thank you, Veritas.
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An understatement Sir.
Thank You
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rebump to the best thread on the board
Pray for W and Our Troops
I know...my point was he had just finished a war with them, yet he still preferred to send the planes there rather than have them destroyed on the ground in Iraq. That tells me that if he thinks destruction is imminent, he would be more likely to send his material to a local “enemy” like Syria rather than risk it falling to the Americans, just like he did with sending his planes to Iran.
Plus, Syria has a chemical weapons program too. Has it changed since 2003, which would indicate that they recieved new material?
WoMD would make great call letters for a talk radio station.
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Sorry it took so long for me to find the information:
The FR post number is 894006 - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894006/posts
Unfortunately the article was on the Modesto Bee web site and could not be posted in its entirety. The link to modbee.com given in the FreeRepublic article has disappeared. I do, however, have a paper copy and here are the main parts of interest:
“Martin Schram: Uncovering buried secrets -
Scripps Howard News Service
Published: April 15, 2003, 01:19:00 PM PDT (SH) - U.S Intelligence officials hunting for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction would do well to talk with one of their opposite number - a former Iraqi intelligence officer who became the involuntary guest of jailers in a Kurdish prison in northern Iraq. He says he can tell them where some of Saddam’s secrets are buried. Literally. Because he helped bury them.
“We transported them to numerous sites, for example, we would transport them from Salman Pak to Tikrit, a desert area, or outside Baghdad...to a desert area called the Al-‘Ayth Desert region,” the onetime Iraqi agent said in an interview contained in a new book, “Avoiding Armageddon,” published by Basic Books, which I wrote as a companion to the PBS series of the same name (on which I was managing editor) that aired this month.
“It is a deserted, uninhabited desert except for a few shepherds. ... It wasn’t a building. We would find prepared places, large holes already dug by shovels during the night. The shovels were ready there. There were cranes that would raise the weapons, put them into the holes and cover them up.”
The former Iraqi intelligence official was interviewed in 2002 for the project by television documentary producer Ginny Durrin, under the agreement that his name would not be made public.....”
Further in the article the Iraqi agent says, “...We transported them in containers, plastic containers. ... There were no markings on them. Their color was tawny or deeper. ... We transported them on those trailers that carry 45 tons.”
I do not know if the desert area given by Schram is the same that you conclude they used. It should be noted that the action documented by Schram took place some time before 2002 before the Kurds nabbed the unnamed Iraqi agent.
Thank you for your good work.
Did the CIA interview this guy? I hope they did. As you notice from the article, I strongly believe that the materials to make Chemical weapons are buried in the desert.
And the Truth shall set you free...
Thanks as always.
“Did the CIA interview this guy?”
Unfortunately, there is no way for me to tell. We did some work for the CIA once at the government lab where I worked and they tend to be quite secretive.
So what, exactly, are we waiting for — the U.S., I mean — what is keeping us from digging for the darn stuff?
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