A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq WMD located in three Syrian sites

Lebanese Association.org ^ | February 16, 2006

[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."

[demlosers]

copy of the original letter sent out from syria

[sure_fine]

"Take care of yourself."




that seems appropiate

[Cindy]

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

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

I'm holding my breath until the MSM reports on this....:0)

[Echo Talon]

OMG, now how long before they are moved again...

[binkdeville]

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.

[Cindy]

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.

[westmichman]

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.

[shadeaud]

and the lame street media is concerned about why THEY were not the first to be contacted(four days of reporting now)

[Eye of Unk]

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.

[Northern Alliance]

To be honest , no one cares anymore.

I certainly care, but someone should get their knuckles rapped for not putting the correct date on the article.

[al_again]

It's what the public has been brainwashed to believe now that matters

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!

[Cindy]

OPINION: Generally speaking, the lame-stream media wants to be lame and tame. It's so much easier than doing hard news reporting.

[FreedomPoster]

It has been nice knowing you.

[eeevil conservative]

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!

[Waco]

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.)

[bilhosty]

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).

[Finalapproach29er]

Somebody tell the CIA, they're always last to know.

Let's send some guys to take a look at these sites.

[RoadTest]

" 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.

[Galveston Grl]

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.

[Kewlhand`tek]

someone tell reverend "smart bums"lowery

[Kewlhand`tek]

I'm holding my breath until the MSM reports on this....:0)..

you mean till they spin it. they are already spining the sadam tapes as proof that saddam didnt want a war.

[wolfcreek]

Syria is definately a player in the ME. In the event We want to take on Iran, Syria might decide to toss a few of these weapons at Israel, causing an all-out conflict.

BTW: Welcome to FR!

[IrishMike]

And soon the world will know the TRUTH

[IrishMike]

GREAT POSTING

(I added some keywords)

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Iraq may have suspended their WMD program, but it is hard to believe that Saddam simply gave up his existing weapons.
Remember in the first Gulf War when it became obvious that his airforce was going down, he flew his aircraft to Iran. This makes it plausible what this article is saying. We may never know the truth.

[sgtbono2002]

Well if we send over some CIA guys, someone tell them how to take the batteries out of their cell phones first>

[ken5050]

Bingo..if we know, or think we know, where they are, we have to go get them..before Hamas/Hezbollah does..

[Echo Talon]

you would think, but who says they(Hamas/Hezbollah) didn't have this info back in 2003?

[P-40]

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.


He also documented programs that were put on hold with the intention of restarting them at a later date. He also documented the systematic destruction of records at the start of the war. Just because Saddam did not have everything all mixed up and ready to go is not exactly the issue that matters. It just does not take much time or effort to create some deadly materials once you have the know-how.

[sauropod]

Truth will out.

[sauropod]

So GEN Tommy Franks commenting that 2 days before the war started they observed convoys of trucks heading from weapon sites to Syria is "fantasy," right?

[BadAndy]

Fake but accurate?

[ravingnutter]

So you want to quote David Kay, huh...

David Kay, the former head of the coalition's hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, yesterday claimed that part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme was hidden in Syria.

In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr Kay, who last week resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before last year's war to overthrow Saddam.

"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."

Source

[Tokra]

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.

David Kay: "It was reasonable to conclude that Iraq posed an imminent threat. What we learned during the inspection made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than, in fact, we thought it was even before the war."

[ravingnutter]

More:

``We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities,'' Kay testified, ``and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002'' -- concealed, that is, from the hapless Hans Blix.

Kay's list is chilling. It includes a secret network of labs and safe houses within the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service; bioorganisms kept in scientists' homes, including a vial of live botulinum; and my favorite, ``new research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin'' -- all ``not declared to the U.N.''

Kay's finding of ``dozens of WMD-related program activities,'' concealed from U.N. inspectors, constitutes an irrefutable material breach of 1441 -- and open-and-shut vindication of the U.S. decision to disarm Saddam by force.

Source

And you might want to read this as well:

David Kay's Testimony to the Intelligence Committee - Oct 02, 2003

[Earthdweller]

ABC already "glossed" over this last night on nightline...at 11 PM no less.

Oh those sleeping little sheepls.

Rock 'em back to sleep.

The big boys are the movers and shakers,

so you don't make a peep.

The ones that are wide awake,

throw them dogs a bone,

We love and we need you,

but we don't like your tone.

This coming out now is an attempt to bring the cartoon inferno down to a simmer. The bigin's must have known this for a while now.

Smart move I'd say.

Sincerely, One who watches the KR Psychlops ;)

[ravingnutter]

Last month, Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.

Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."

In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war. "We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.

In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria. "There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.

In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

Source

[eureka!]

fyi

[Bender2]

Hum... What is a simple solution?

-1- Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria...

-2- The village of Tal Snan...

-3-. The city of Sjinsjar

That wasn't so hard, was it?

[hinckley buzzard]

In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

Thanks to a "heads-up" warning to Saddam Hussein, via Assad, courtesy of United States Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WVa).

[evets]

[jw777]

But Damnit, Dick Cheney did not tell me personally that he was in a hunting accident. This WMD stuff is not important. I need to know the consistency of the VP's fecal matter ASAP!

~Dayvid Greggory

[Coop]

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.

Please show me the conclusion about no active WMD programs. Thank you.

[Coop]

Never mind. :-D I see the others on this thread already handed your exposed derriere to you.

[kaehurowing]

All I want to know is what happened to the quail Cheney shot when he shot Whittington? Why are they still covering this up?

[demlosers]

Please show me the conclusion about no active WMD programs. Thank you

There's no doubt in my mind that Saddam had them and hid them. By us not physically finding them, sure as heck doesn't mean Iraq WMDs didn't exist. A totally non-logical conclusion that the libs and other doubters purport. There's just too much evidence out there that refutes the doubters - no matter what the official lib media and goverment position is.

[ottersnot]

'To be honest , no one cares anymore.'

Sadly, least of all the administration. I've given up on any real effort to defend the war.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it. I'd bomb Iran three years ago. It infuriates me that we do something for the right reason, and then bow to weak kneed lying liberal attacks. PAINs me.

[binkdeville]

I know how you feel my friend >>>>>

[cgk]

BFLR/ping.