Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley

Drudge via World Tribune ^ | Monday, August 25, 2003

[RoughDobermann]

U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.

Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.

Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in tomorrow's new weekly edition.

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.

Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new. Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq. He and Assad made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and drugs to and from Iraq, according to the May 13, 2003 edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.

The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons.

Not surprisingly, U.S. inquiries in Beirut and Syria are being met with little substantive response, U.S. officials said.

[CyberAnt]

Yeah, I thought of that ..?? And .. you're right - that would not be kool!

Do you think we suspected - and we did the suit thing just to be sure ..??

I don't know how these people think - do you!

[Matchett-PI]

"Why don't you pass your "inside info" onto the White House? They would love to see it! Oh- maybe because it is so much bogus crud that the White House or Bush would never put their names to it on paper?"

"MY inside info"?????

Ding! Ding!!

I'm QUOTING the Bush Administration!!! Hahahaha

[Matchett-PI]

"Why don't you pass your "inside info" onto the White House? They would love to see it! Oh- maybe because it is so much bogus crud that the White House or Bush would never put their names to it on paper?"

"MY inside info"?????

Ding! Ding!!

I'm QUOTING the Bush Administration!!! Hahahaha

[yonif]

The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons

Israeli intelligence believes the same.

[yonif]

Israeli intelligence also reported this. They said that Egyptian border troops helped move WMD from Iraq to Libya and Syria a few months before the war.

[anglian]

Speaking of Assad. When are elections held in Syria?

[Burkeman1]

LOL! really? Bush said that and stands by it? Who said that by the way, from the Bush administration exactely?

[Matchett-PI]

"Who said that by the way, from the Bush administration exactely?"

You were already given that information. All you had to do was read what I posted. Then you could have followed the link and read even more.

[Burkeman1]

Ah again- who from the Bush Admin repeated a word of your swill directly to the media? Did one Bush authorized person do it? Did Ari Fleischer? Who! Name one person who holds a post in this executive government who will go one record to repeat your fantasies?

[Matchett-PI]

"Name one person who holds a post in this executive government who will go one record to repeat your fantasies?"

The spokesman was named. Stop embarassing yourself.

[Burkeman1]

Who again? I know I am a drunk with a sick relative but can you tell me by name?

[lepton]

Let's try this one last time: A weapon system is capable of being deployed in 45 minutes if it is able to be taken out of its current storage mode, set up and fired in 45 minutes. That does not mean that it need be available to do so. It is a genreal statement based on the weapon system, and is irrelevant to the weapons location. The description does not care that the weapon system is on a rocket site on Tuesday, and has been put under 50 other like weapon systems in a warehouse 300 miles away on Thursday, nor if the crew gets drunk out of their gourd on Friday and is incapable of assembling it until they get over their hangover. If you want to say that he used a standard military description and that people might be able to confuse themselves with it, then you may have a point, but failing to be immune to misinterpretation while stating it in common terms is not the same as being misleading.

As for "The more people who know a secret, the less of a secret it is. By now interrogations should have yielded something--why haven't they?", why haven't they figured out where the chemical weapons Iraq admitted to having went? As for the commanders having to know: Not hardly. After having so many security leaks, Hussein really cracked down on who might know. The chemical warheads being spoken of only hold a couple of liters apiece, and the total (lower end) amount that Powell described Iraq as having could fit inside of but two large tanker trucks. Further: Technically it is possible that no one still alive actually knows where the bio or chem weapon agents are.

[lepton]

In addition to not finding any WMDs, they fail to explain why the WMDs weren't launched within 45 minutes as Blair had claimed they could be, and why Iraq didn't use them on us in all the years that they were supposed to have had them.

Those things you mention sort of sound kindof like what was said, but they are not what was said - though they did state reasons why Iraq did not use them.

[Burkeman1]

Was he? Who, thats works for this Admin, attached his name to your story? Please tell me?

[ApesForEvolution]

You're pathetic...

[MatthewViti]

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

what kind of idiots do we have working in our govt?

[Burkeman1]

Not a single reisgnaton or forced retirement since 9/11- heck- trust our government without question!

[I_love_weather]

Quote "U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time. "

Blah Blah Blah...they are here...no wait they are there. WE PROMISE they are in Iraq...we will find them...they are here.

No wait...we MEANT they are over here. Ok look...watch my hand...if you move this shell over here...and switch this one here...and then move this one here...ok now where is the ball?

Nope not there...

CIA didn't know what was going on????

All THAT evidence...they knew where the WMD were. So they said.

Ok well...it doesn't matter because their leader was a bad guy...

Right?

Hey as long as we have one of the reasons for going to war...blah blah blah

[happygrl]

Now we know what the trip by Powell to Syria was all about, and the frenchie visits earlier.

BINGO.

But also to warn off giving sanctuary to any on the List of 55.