copy of the original letter sent out from syria
Posted on 02/16/2006 2:55:47 AM PST by demlosers
AFP
Nizar Nayuf (Nayyouf-Nayyuf), 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 Weapons of Mass Destruction (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 air force camp. Vital parts of Iraq's WMD are stored there.
-3-. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of Homs city.
Nayouf 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.
In February 2003, a month before America's invasion in Iraq, very few are aware about the efforts to bring the Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq to Syria, and the personal involvement of Bashar Assad and his family in the operation. Nayouf, who has won prizes for journalistic integrity, says he wrote his letter because he has terminal cancer.
First Message from the Syrian source to Nizar Nayouf
"Dear Nizar.
We received confirmations that the Iraqi weapons, which were moved to Syria by the help of General Zoul-Himla Chalich are now hidden in three places inside Syria:
First place: a tunnel dug in the mountain close to the Al-Baïdah village, which is roughly two kilometers from Misyaf village. This place is under the 489 Safety cipher Documents' office control .
Second place: the factory of the Air Armed Forces in the village of Tal Sinan, between the town of Hama and Salamiyyah. This factory is under the Air Force control.
Third place: the location of Shinsar, 40 kilometers south of Homs, two kilometers east of the Homs - Damascus road. There are underground tunnels there, controlled by Brigade 661 of the armed air Forces. It is a Brigade of air Patrol. The tunnels are several tens of meters deep.
The weapons were transported in large wooden cases and barrels, under the supervision of the General Zoul-Himla Chalich and the son of his brother Assef, who works at Al-Bachaer company.
The company is owned by the Assad family and has offices in Beirut, Damascus and Baghdad.
This company also undertook the illegal Iraqi oil importation in Syria, and supplied weapons to Saddam. I will try to send you all the new information as i get .
Take care and be safe."
Second Message to Nizar Nayuf
"Dear Nizar.
I have sent you another chart of the positions which tells where the weapons which were sent from Iraq into Syria, are hidden. Because the preceding chart that I sent you earlier is not clear.
Until now, the authorities in Syria did not worry of what was being published by the Dutch television news about this subject.
New information: The weapons were evacuated by the means of ambulances. Mohammed Mansoura also took part in the operation.
There are other serious, detailed pieces of information concerning the money of Saddam being moved into Syria and into Lebanon and those who took part in moving it - Syrians and Lebanese.Also there are more details about the assassination of the General Moustapha Tajer which took place last summer.
Take care of yourself.
Damascus, January 7, 2004."
copy of the original letter sent out from syria
"Take care of yourself."
that seems appropiate
Ask the moderator to change the date of the info though just for clarification and archival purposes:
http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php
"A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq WMD located in three Syrian sites"
06 January, 2004
AFP
OMG, now how long before they are moved again...
To be honest , no one cares anymore. It's what the public has been brainwashed to believe now that matters..The MSM has it's story and that what the ignorant population has swallowed. Sad but true.
Well now, I'll just have to beg to differ with you.
The popularity of FreeRepublic.com and the surge
in blogs IS because a lot of people do still care and
are not interested in T.O.M. (backhoe's term for
Tired Old Media) watered down reports and/or
non-reporting of the news.
I'm sure the MSM is already planning some new charges against the Bush administration to spike this story. I believe the story will prove to have legs though, much to the chagrin of the MSM.
and the lame street media is concerned about why THEY were not the first to be contacted(four days of reporting now)
I think it should be most important to recover all these weapons as soon as possible in a most direct manner possible.
Too much is getting into Iraq, and its also most likely the terrorists version of a weapons for sale EBAY. Anybody with money can buy anything they want and use it worldwide. Perhaps we should direct attention to Syria for now and let Iran hang itself, sounds to me like Syria is the more dangerous of the middle east scenarios. Iran may build nukes but Syria may already have them in storage from Saddams regime.
I certainly care, but someone should get their knuckles rapped for not putting the correct date on the article.
Just because you wish it to be true does not make it so! David Kay had access to the grounds, documents, and scientists and came to the conclusion that no stockpiles of WMD's existed and that there were no active WMD programs.
People need to quit wasting their time on fantasy and accept the facts in his report. In hindsight, the administration goofed up by making WMD's the central theme for the case to invade Iraq. However, even without WMD's, there were many compelling reasons to go after Saddam. Trying to grasp at straws to prove WMD's just lessons ones credibility so STOP DOING IT!
OPINION: Generally speaking, the lame-stream media wants to be lame and tame. It's so much easier than doing hard news reporting.
It has been nice knowing you.
BREAKING NEWS!
McClellan will be holding a Press Conference at 6:42 am to inform the WH Press Corps that Bush had SCRAMBLED EGGS with Breakfast this morning instead of his normal "over easy" style eggs he usually enjoys...
REMEMBER- they were the FIRST TO KNOW!
I gotta suspect that the US was on top of these movements all along, and that congress was FULLY briefed when the Admis. thought justified. (IOW, a lot of RATS are flat-assed lying thru their teeth.)
Better be careful. WMD could very well exist there. But, it could also be that this dissident just wants somebody to invade his own country and take down the regime that he can't take down. Not that it does not deserve to be taken down (it does).
Somebody tell the CIA, they're always last to know.
Let's send some guys to take a look at these sites.
" m holding my breath until the MSM reports on this....:0) "
No! No! No! Breathe! You might have to wait a while. And then some.
The Bush Admin. could have cared enough to find out the truth and told the public the evidence it had that showed Saddam moved the WDM. Instead, he chose not to fight against the lies probably in the hope of "moving on."
Just like you can not get peace by appeasing the terrorists, you can not get peace by appeasing the American haters in the press. Republican administrations have to learn to cut the Media party out of the loop of power and talk in a totally separate converstaion with the American people. That means, they have to change the old White House press pool routine and replace it with a whole different method of communication with the public. The media will scream and yell...but they scream and yell anyway. That is what Democrats do when Republicans are in power.
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