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2004-01-22 Iraq
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman says Iraqi WMD may be in Syria
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-22 12:32:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Roberts, a leading member of President Bush’s Republican Party

rofl, yeah, no shit, find that hard to believe

He did not elaborate.

translation: don't have any evidence but mud sticks after a while

"The jury is still out," Vice President Dick Cheney said on the failure so far to find any weapons of mass destruction since Saddam was toppled last April.

when is the jury coming in? I'm getting bored waiting.

Q. which country/ies in the middle east has/have not signed the 1972 biological weapons treaty (not that it really means that much anyway)?
Posted by Igs 2004-1-22 1:03:26 AM||   2004-1-22 1:03:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I said as much quite a while back- During the whining by the UN, Saddam was able to get the lot of it across to Syria.

That reporter in the UK even called the specific locations for the WMD warheads, and the delivery systems.

As for you igs, troll boy, tired of waiting? Go do something about it - join the Army and go over there and helpaout. And remember - the people saying "They Have the weapons" were Clinton and Gore - Bush is merely following up on what the prior President already stated as fact. Get that into your pointly little republican bashing biased head.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-1-22 1:51:37 AM||   2004-1-22 1:51:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 rofl, republican or democrat I couldn't really give a toss who said what, they're just as bad as each other

as to the specific locations, give me a break, you just need to believe this to justify your own existence, the US Government had specific locations of wmds in Iraq before the war as I recall, if their intelligence was up shit creek then, somehow I'm not going to believe some pathetic little journalist who went on holiday to syria

as to whether iraq had wmds before the war, yeah, I'll admit it, I was convinced that it did, as to whether syria has them, I'm sure they do. Rather than than coming up with excuses for not finding them, perhaps it's time to admit that there weren't any there at the time of invasion, and don't give me this weapons program crap instead, that's not what the US admin said, it specifically referred to existing weapons, I can download some info from the net and have my own wmd program. Syria and Iran are a different ball game, they'll implode on their own eventually.
Posted by Igs 2004-1-22 2:10:43 AM||   2004-1-22 2:10:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh, heh, where's waldo? Bush is predictable and he's made it clear that Syria is next. Even the trolls, living their lives under bridges and rocks, can see that. Let's hope that Assad pulls a Mommar and saves everyone lots of trouble.
Posted by B 2004-1-22 5:59:30 AM||   2004-1-22 5:59:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 and don't give me this weapons program crap instead, that's not what the US admin said

Yes, it is. Stop lying.

And learn how to use the shift key.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-1-22 7:00:33 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-1-22 7:00:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 They don't teach the shift until the Third Grade

Dorf
Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-22 8:23:07 AM||   2004-1-22 8:23:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Doesn't matter if WMD exist or ever existed. After Gulf War I, Saddam agreed to publicly disarm in exchange for keeping his goddam country. He didn't (for 12 years) - so he lost his country. End of fucking story.
Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-22 9:11:10 AM||   2004-1-22 9:11:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Why hasn't Israel signed nucelar non-proliferation treaty ? No one seems to want to go after them with regards to WMD's.

I got a feeling Saadam and Sharon made a deal and he shipped all his WMD to Israel. So now they have even more WMD's.
Posted by LongLiveIsrael 2004-1-22 9:26:03 AM||   2004-1-22 9:26:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Israel has offered to negotiate a regional nuclear disarmament treaty with all its neighbors. Unfortunately several of its neighbors wont meet with Israel on anything, since they oppose its very existence. Until they do Israel will not disarm unilaterally.
Posted by liberalhawk 2004-1-22 9:58:20 AM||   2004-1-22 9:58:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I posted this 1/8/04:

Syrian journalist reports Iraq’s WMD located in three Syrian sites.
Nizar Najoef, a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf,” that he knows the three sites where Iraq’s WMD are kept. The storage places are:

1. Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria. These tunnels are an integral part of an underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.

2. The village of Tal Snan, north of the town of Salamija, where there is a big Syrian airforce camp. Vital parts of Iraq’s WMD are stored there.

3. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of the city Homs.

Najoef writes that the transfer of Iraqi WMD to Syria was organized by the commanders of Saddam Hussein’s Special Republican Guard, including General Shalish, with the help of Assif Shoakat , Bashar Assad’s cousin. Shoakat is the CEO of Bhaha, an import/export company owned by the Assad family.


Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-1-22 11:11:18 AM||   2004-1-22 11:11:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I have trouble buying this. Saddam did not believe we would invade so its unlikely he would have transfered WMD. Saddam didn't particularly like or trust his fellow Ba'athists in Syria either since Assad's father had allied with fellow Shia in Iran against Iraq.

I don't think the removal of the Assad dictatorship should be muddled with WMD talk. Just warn him what he has to do to stay in power, if he doesn't (a) stop assisting Hezbollah (b) stop assisting all terrorism (c) pull out of Lebanon (d) Allow UN to inspect for weapons a-la Libya. If he doesn't do all of this he gets removed. Period.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-1-22 2:04:57 PM||   2004-1-22 2:04:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 My money is still on the Beqaa-Vally, the chinless wonder is not very intelligent, but i cant imagine him being stupid enough to hide that stuff in his own country.
Posted by chinditz  2004-1-22 2:25:42 PM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-1-22 2:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Chinditz: why can't you imagine him being that stupid? If it's the Bekka Valley, it's still his turf. Six-a-one, half-a-dozen of the other.
Posted by R. McLeod 2004-1-22 7:02:04 PM||   2004-1-22 7:02:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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