Posted on 07/19/2012 6:26:44 PM PDT by raptor22
War On Terror: As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in Saddam Hussein's air force says they were the WMDs we didn't find in Iraq.
King Abdullah of neighboring Jordan warned that a disintegrating Syria on the verge of civil war puts Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons at risk of falling into the hands of al-Qaida.
"One of the worst-case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles were to fall into unfriendly hands," he said.
The irony here is that the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian thug Assad may in large part be the legacy of weapons moved from Hussein's Iraq into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
If so, this may be the reason not much was found in the way of WMD by victorious U.S. forces in 2003.
In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book, "Saddam's Secrets."
It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate Hussein's WMD threat.
As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons materials.
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>> And the truth will finally come out
The truth was always out there. Just too many dumb shits that are happy to follow the Leftwing media lies for the sake of convenience.
Actually the vast majority of Syria’s chemical stockpile came from the old Soviet Union in the late 60’s early 70’s. This is not to say that Saddam might not have shipped what few he had off to Syria but the Syrians have had gas bombs / rockets /artillery shells for better than 25 years.
Just to be clear, I disagreed with the part about being ‘buried’ in the sand. Although an underground bunker might be considered ‘buried in the sand’.
There was a convoy we shot at, and stopped. In one of the vehicles was a ‘diplomat’. Russian diplomat. After a few phone calls and radio messages, the Russian convoy was allowed to continue, and US forces were told to watch but not interfere.
You supplied some good information, but both our stories are just pieces of the puzzle. I think the real point to the story should be that someone is making sure these don’t end up in terrorist hands. Or that they didn’t.
BUMP TO THE TOP!!!
Umpteenth threads on FR at the time about how Saddam’s WMD were transported into Syria. But of course our, oh so clever, MSM knew best. Crickets.....
Ping!
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