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| Assad's fall could solve Iraqi weapons mystery | |
| 2012-01-23 | |
| If Syria's regime falls, the U.S. will be in a better position to answer one of the lingering questions from the long Iraq War: Did Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... ship weapons of mass destruction components to Syria before the 2003 American-led invasion? An opposition leader tells The Washington Times that a new, secular democracy in Syria would allow outside inspectors to survey and ensure destruction of what is believed to be one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the Middle East. Western and Israeli intelligence suspect that Bashir al-Assad's regime in Syria also owns weaponized nerve agents. Spy satellites tracked a large number of truck convoys moving from Iraq to Syria in the weeks before the 2003 invasion, raising suspicions that some carried weapons of mass destruction. The invading Americans never found stocks of such weapons in Iraq, despite two years of searching by the Iraq Survey Group, the joint Pentagon-CIA organization formed to hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"[The Iraq Survey Group] was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that [weapons of mass destruction were] evacuated to Syria before the war," he said. "Whether Syria received military items from Iraq for safekeeping or other reasons has yet to be determined," Mr. Duelfer said. "There was evidence of a discussion of possible ... collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and [the Iraq Survey Group] received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that [weapons of mass destruction were] involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation." | |
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| #8 WMDS, i.e. BioWar + ChemWar etc.. were found in Iraq. + evidence of budding covert NucProg - WHAT HAS NOT BEEN FOUND ARE FULLY ASSEMBLED, WORKING NUCLEAR BOMBS + WARHEADS ["Dirty", Uranium, Hydrogen, Plutonium] WHICH IS WHAT THE CRITICS + MSM REALLY MEANT BY THE PDENIABLE LABEL "WMDS". [FRENCH + RUSSIAN, EX-PACT MYSTERY CARGO PLANES here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-23 19:26 |
| #7 Based on what's happened in the rest of the Mideast (Egypt, Tunisia, and probably Libya), the chance of a new secular democracy in Syria seems kind of slim. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-01-23 19:12 |
| #6 "a new, secular democracy in Syria" Dream on |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-01-23 17:59 |
| #5 Mullah, According to former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw, "The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon. They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence." See here. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-01-23 15:38 |
| #4 What say we drop some penetrators on the area and see what comes out? |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-01-23 15:33 |
| #3 If it isn't already being moved. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-01-23 14:23 |
| #2 Russians helped Saddam move his stuff the first time and I'm sure they'll help Bashir move it again. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-01-23 10:21 |
| #1 The Survey Group could have found ICBM's and MIRV's and the MSM would only begrudgedly reported it because it would have made George's premises correct. The DCI, Tenent, was adamant that WMD existed in Iraq and the yellow cake thing was proven to be true, although buried on an obscure page in the WaPo. I don't think Tenent would have been so sure of himself if there was not credible evidence that they existed. That's the way it is. If it walked like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its generally a duck and Saddam certainly quacked like someone with a butt load of WMD. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2012-01-23 10:15 |