Posted on 02/18/2006 11:21:08 PM PST by Tut
Ex-Official: Russia Moved Saddam's WMDs
A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them.
"The short answer to the question of where the WMDs Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John. A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org)
"They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence," he said.
Shaw has dealt with weapons-related issues and export controls as a U.S. government official for 30 years, and was serving as deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security when the events he described today occurred.
He called the evacuation of Saddam's WMD stockpiles "a well-orchestrated campaign using two neighboring client states with which the Russian leadership had a long time security relationship."
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If I was a "fly on the wall" I would certainly relay the news to you.
If this would have happened to anyone else in the country, it would have been like a sparrows belch in a typhoon.
LOL............... he was fabulous. It was quite a Monday morning with Alan and Mary Matalin skewering Maureen Dowd.
The Iraqi General just did a tour saying they went to Syria, now Russians sent them where?
Who is telling the truth?
The Iraqis could have easily flown their wmd's out of the country on a handful of the four engine Antonov turboprops the Russkies gave them...
Mullashs aside, we would have been far better off backing Iran, which while a fanatical muslim controlled government, intel would consider the persians in Iran a geopolitical counterweight to the Arabs, which would mean far less turmoil in Israel too.. Aside from the fanatical mullahs and their nuclear ambitions, the Iranian's beef with us is more geopolitical than Ideological, hence why they currently back Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, are trying to get the bomb, etc.
But it makes me wonder, why hasn't Bush confronted Russia about this? Surely he has to know if this is true. ==
If the great word. Wat if this story just one conspirancy theory hoax devised just with one purpose. To explain why no WMD wasn't found. Someone just cann't accept that no WMD was there:).
As long as they continue to sell nukes to Arabs they are not our friend and we shouldn't consider them as such.==
Interesting how many nukes from Russia possess to now? 1 or 2 or 10?:))
I know that one muslim friend of United States exploded about 6 of them few years ago:). Guess who?:)
And the Administration isn't telling us this, because?
We would have to invade Syria and uncover them.==
What if you won't find them again?:))))))
The WMD was there. Every rational person knows that. It's just that it can't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and that's why the President can't talk about it. If the smoking gun was discovered, then it should be on the front page of every newspaper in the free world.
I have just obtained a WMD
OOPS....I dropped it
http://www.radgraphics.net/images/main/atomic%20explosion%20-%204.jpg
So how many people ahvae to report this before the inhabitants of the insane asylum known as LibWorld will acknowledge it?
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