I remember seeing an episode of ABC’s “Nightline” a number of years ago, during the early years of the Iraq War.
Ted Koppel played an audio tape of an Iraqi general saying that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were sent to Syria by plane during the summer of 2002. There was a dam collapse of some kind in Syria, and Saddam Hussein was sending plane loads of humanitarian aid to Syria.....at least, that was the official story. The planes contained the WMD’s, not humanitarian aid, according to this Iraqi general.
The audio tape was in Arabic and was translated into English.
Just adding this old “Nightline” episode to the mix.....
Considered posting this Breitbart article on the subject, but figured this thread covered it well enough. But the Breitbart article does reference your General:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/07/14/And-where-did-syrias-chemical-weapons