Posted on 07/29/2006 5:44:49 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Among the captured documents of the Iraqi Intelligence Services is a memo written in Arabic that describes pre-war intel from an Iraqi source working in Syria. Dated July 13, the memo itself was written after the invasion, but it describes the movement of trucks from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasions. Document ISGQ-2005-00022470 has notations reading "DOD" that indicate the Pentagon has already reviewed the data:
ISGQ-2005-00022470 PAGE (1) MR. HOGGER (KURDISH NAME) REGARDS, KINDLY REVIEW THOSE PAGES AND PLEASE FORWARD THEM TO MRS.MONA FOR FURTHER REVIEW AFTER TRANSLATION THANK YOU SIGNED ABO ABDULLAH JULY 13TH
ESQUIRE, THE DIRECTOR OF COORDINATION AND FOLLOW UP OFFICE
July.13th
Subject: we have information about the location of Mass Destruction Weapons
On Moharram 10th (Arabic calendar), prior to US/allied invasion to Iraq, fifty (50) Iraqi trucks entered Syria as convoys (or groups), I met some the drivers of those trucks, they got no idea about the content of their trucks.
The loads basically came from some where in Baghdad, Iraqi intelligence were escorting the loads. During their tripe, those truck drivers were stopped and asked frequently by the intelligence officers about whether or not they got any idea about the content of their loads, the divers replied “we have no idea”, then the officers would say “thank you”.
Upon their arrival to Deayr Ezoor city/ Syria, the drivers were ordered to get down, elements from Syrian intelligence got into the trucks, they took the trucks to big barracks for downloading.
After that; Iraqi drivers got their trucks back, they got $200 as a reward.
The drivers told me that it was their second time to bring such secret shipment; the first shipment was Moharram 1st.
I have a friend in Syria working in Syrian company, the man has ½ of the company, and the other ½ belongs to a Syrian businessman.
This Iraqi person, a former counselor at Iraqi embassies, has strong connections with Iraqi embassy in Syria, he knows all Iraqi intelligence men there, and he has no idea that I am working with the Iraqi opposition in Syria.
I used to visit him daily during that period to listen to the important news.
When the trucks arrived to Syria, I visited him, told him “Iraqi weapons got inside Syria”, he replied “who told you”, I said “I have my own resources”, he replied “don’t tell any one about that because actually it is inside”.
For those unfamiliar with the Muslim calendar, 10 Mohorram would equate to March 14th for 2003 -- or a little over a week before our invasion of Iraq. The opposition source told the Kurds that the trucks arrived in Dayr az Zawr, a Syrian city on the Euphrates in the expansive eastern section of Syria. A look at a map shows Dayr az Zawr in the middle of nowhere, with plenty of space to hide stockpiles from 50 trucks.
After unloading the trucks -- taking care to separate the Iraqi drivers from their vehicles while doing so -- the Syrians returned the trucks to the drivers and paid each of them $200, a rather princely sum for an Iraqi in 2003. And that was the second such convoy that IIS officers conducted into Syria; the first had been on Mohorram 1, or March 5th.
While this is not quite a smoking gun, it provides yet another piece of evidence pointing to a massive operation to hide Iraq's WMDs. Saddam Hussein must have thought that if the Coalition could not find the WMDs, they would have to withdraw and allow him to assume power once more. It would explain why he allowed so much of his army to disappear rather than fight; he expected to command them again within a few weeks. In fact, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri told Time Magazine that Saddam had made a mistake allowing the army to fight at all:
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's top lieutenant with a $10 million bounty on his head, struck a defiant tone in an intervew appearing on Time magazine's Web site in which he wrote out answers to questions sent in May through intermediaries. Time said it wasn't clear when his answers were written.
Al-Douri, the highest-ranking figure from Saddam's regime still at large and the "king of clubs" on the most wanted list, said Saddam blundered by having his army confront the U.S.-led invasion force instead of holding it in reserve to fight a guerrilla war, but he said the old army has bounced back.
This movement of the weapons also appeased Russia, which helped Saddam build them. The Russians did not want the US to discover the weapons stores and pressed Saddam to get them somewhere else, and fast. American intel has long claimed to have seen these convoys streaming across western Iraq into Syria, and this provides a more complete picture as to what they did when they arrived.
Posted by Captain Ed at 01:59 PM | Comments (25) | TrackBa
As others have noted, the translator was JVeritas.
And this was posted here:
DoD Report: 50 Trucks Carried Iraqi WMD To Syria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673944/posts
And:
DoD Report: 50 Trucks Carried Iraqi WMD To Syria | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/dod-report-50-trucks-carried-iraqi-wmd-to-syria
Including the date translation.
In any event, the MSM's coverage of the WMD issue has been pathetic and stupid and the MSM fails to understand that whether or not Iraq had WMD on the shelf, as opposed to the capability to manufacture it within 3-12 months, only affects the timing of when they could attack the West with WMD. Too bad Bill Buckley is retired from TV now and wasn't able to add some rationality into the WMD debate.
Forgot to mention one thing: notice how MSM political bias is now so serious that it's affecting our national security policy. Beyond doing what's best for America, President Bush now has to factor in the bias and distortion in the media coverage of everything he does and how this affects the poltical arena in which he operates. His job is now almost as difficult as being President of Russia. I tell ya, it's time right now to strongly support internet news sources and talk radio and crush the stupid MSM once and for all.
And .. the trucks were RUSSIAN!
That info was obtained by Israel's satellite images of the trucks.
Let me tell you, though, Putin and the Russians did us a big favor by moving those chemical weapons out of Iraq. Have you heard of Gulf War Syndrome from Desert Storm? Well it's worse than you'll ever hear in the media. I've talked to some people who work at VA Hospitals, and some of the Desert Storm vets are having a tough time with their health, while the Vietnam vets are doing much better. The death toll from Gulf War Syndrome is much higher than most people realize: I've heard numbers of 10,000 or more from reasonably credible sources on talk radio shows.
You are large on platitudes and short on specifics. What exactly is "taken down a notch or two" mean? What speciifcally do you propose?
Specifics, specifics, specifics. "All they can" includes a nuclear attack. Do you think this is what they should do?
mark
Are you saying that the Commander in Chief is treating the War on Terror.........specifically in Iraq, 'like some sort of game?'
It seems like you were, but I don't want to jump to any conclusions.
The troops who serve under him might tend to disagree with you if that's what you really meant to say.
No I wasn't.
Oh I agree Russia did us a favor (and it saved our men from being killed or destroyed by that vile stuff .. but Russia did not do it for us .. they did it to recoup some of their losses.
The information was hidden from the (anti-American) MSM to protect the troops.
I'd like to believe this is true, but with the full force of the U.S. military coming into the region looking for one thing, the weapons, it doesn't make any sense that Syria would be willing to take them. It's like being in a car that gets pulled over and as the cop approaches, the driver hands you a huge bag of cocaine and says "Here, could you hold this for a minute."
"They are acting as someone who has a plan and the timing is not right."
Perhaps the syrians are waiting aminodinnerjacket to drop "the big one" on Israel, discumbobulate the Israelis, and then the eye doctor will "Sanitize" the region with little fear of reprisals from the Israelis.?????
Nice ti see others starting to pick up on all of jveritas hard work
I think this may be the key to your question. An excerpt from the thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674035/posts
... the real news about President Bush's open mic night at the G-8 summit is not his use of a common vulgarity, but an exchange between Bush and Tony Blair regarding Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
BLAIR: What does he think? He thinks that if Lebanon turns out fine, if you get a solution in Israel-Palestine, if Iraq ends in the right way--
BUSH: Yeah, he's through.
BLAIR: He's had it. That's what this whole thing's about. It's the same thing with Iran.
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It seems they're stating that Assad's job/life is on the line with this stuff. Let me know if I'm not reading this right.
bttt
The has been alleged for years now.
It's nice to see the documents prove it.
No, I'm saying that many of our so-called congresscritters are playing games with our Troop's lives by not going on the attack in the public square, especially in time of war.
My son served a year in Baqubah, Iraq (where al Zarkowi was taken out), six of my Boy Scouts (I've said this before, but it bears repeating again and again) in our small town Troop have served. Three of the six in the first push to Baghdad--Marines; one Army Infantry (3ID), one USAF (Japan), one USCG (Alaska). No, we've all done our share of serving our country including myself, we owe no apologies to anyone.
Our President basically stands ALONE surrounded by cowards, back-stabbers and fifth columnists, there are exceptions of course, but I think they can be counted on one hand but history tells us that this is often the case.
I WILL zap the President (and our Texas Senators, representatives and governor), however, on his (their) lack of real action concerning our borders. I have lived in Texas basically all of my life, half of that on the border, I'm not a fool, our southern border is a joke, and still is--a dangerous joke.
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