Jay Rockefeller, SOCIALIST-WV, apparently gave our enemies forewarning about the impending attack. So much for trusting these traitors withour national security.
Posted on 04/07/2008 1:40:26 PM PDT by jhpigott
An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.
Furthermore, according to a report leaked to the TV channel, Syria has arrested 10 intelligence officials following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh.
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This might have been useful back in say... 2003!
That is why the Riverjoint aircraft was in the area when this all went down.
Israeli spies? Traitors in Syria? What's the significance?
Or 2004 or 2005 or 2006.
It’s useful still. The history books have not been written
This is never mentioned when the libs talk about how there wasn’t any WMDs. While we went through all the stall tactics with the UN, satellite pictures showed caravans of trucks, cargo being loaded onto ships, etc. Of course he moved WMDs over the Syria, but this seems to be never brought up.
Have you talked to any history professors lately? Believe me, too many history books have already been written.
The huge line of vehicles stretching across Western Iraq headed into Syria during the 3 weeks before we went in was a really big clue.
I recall on FR back then that everyone was screaming this. It was mind-bogglingly obvious. They weren't all limousines.
.......This might have been useful back in say... 2003!....
I would argue it is more valuable now. If true, it will destroy the whole Democrat rationale for doing nothing for the past 4 years except try to destroy Bush.
It will shame those here who say Bush is worthless and then add some trivial personal agenda anecdote that didn’t get done.
Coupled with the winds of the war with Iran it will scare the crap out of the middle and deter the tendency to vote Rat because it feels good.
Never misunderestimate W
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I still think some of his nuclear stuff went to Libya and that is why they came clean to us...we told them that we knew.
Out in Sept.
Rivet Joint
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that’s the thinking
Assad is in a very precarious position, at least internationally. The UN Hariri assasination tribunal is coming up, which is probably going to finger a number of persons in the Assad regime and now we got Israel/US spilling the goods on Assad’s nuclear ambitions
But none of our "crack" reporters from right here in the cradle of liberty saw fit to investigate further. Just another unsubstantiated rumor.
Great.
Let's hope the Israeli strike a few months back was the one that took out Saddam's WMDs. (?) I doubt it...but still, this is interesting.
......I still think some of his nuclear stuff went to Libya .....
I think Saddam subcontracted his nuclear work to Libya when the heat got turned up. When confronted by the Brits, Quadaffy’s son decided the best course was to abandon Saddam et al and join the world.
That’s my old bird She’s the worst kept secret in the US Air Force.
I wonder if ‘Damien’ is still in service. One of RC-135s that had the strangest quirks about it.
Very cool. Be sure to talk with jveritas before publishing.
There could be pictures of Saddam personally loading and driving the trucks there and the left wouldn’t believe it or would just ignore it.
Must have typed it in from his blackberry from the casino.
why yes, a typo....I have a recording of it returning to the US
This will be hugh!
On June 9th [2004], the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council about the export of Iraqi WMD, missile and nuclear components shipped out of Iraq before, during and after the invasion. As reported by MENL news service, UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the Council, "The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," and said inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.
The World Tribune reported on Perricos's briefing. "He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month... The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters ... required for the production of chemical and biological warheads. 'It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for,' Perricos's spokesman, said. 'You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax.'"
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to the arms programs were shipped to Syria."
"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."
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD 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).
"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."
"Two days before the war, on March 17th, we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and techinical (satellite,eavesdrop) intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 Iraqis, going to Syria."
See also: What Charles Duelfer Missed
Israeli spies? Traitors in Syria? What's the significance?
There is a power struggle going on between Assad and other members of his family who want to take over. The scuttlebutt is that Mughniyeh was assassinated by members of Syrian intelligence who opposed Assad.
/wishful thinking
A recording of it? What's it?
Popcorn Time...;0)
This report better get the August NIE report treatment by every Republican Senator, Congressman, Governor and Administration official. They need to beat this into every liberal brain over and over again—Hussein, with Russian assistance, moved the WMDs to Syria in the six month run up to the Iraq War.
My only question is why this is coming out now. It’s impact, unless trumpeted far and wide by the feckless GOP, will be lost now.
OK, libs, if Bush didn’t lie, who died?
True...but the better answer is....well duh!!!!
Our enemies within.
oh boy.. here we go..
Their whole [twisted] reason for existance over the last 7 years. The reason there is never a single piece of information placed in the public domain from the libs re wmd's, is because that is the core of their big lie.
told ya:)
If true...it will do nothing of the sort.
For example, Joe Biden and the Democrat leadership are free, even today, to categorically state that "The Surge was a failure".
The MSM reports the assertion...and totally ignores any evidence to the contrary. Thus, in time, a bald lie becomes "conventional wisdom".
If there is evidence that Saddam shipped his WMDs to Syria, the MSM will simply ignore it.
I love it when a plan (finally) comes together..
THIS IS HUGE IF IT’S TRUE. It would have to have details in order to come up with this conclusion and some pretty convincing evidence.
They will say this new info is also a lie. And since Bush is so stupid, it took him 5 years to figure out a good story.
I’d love it if the report could somehow be delivered in a high profile forum...say, as part of the upcoming Congressional testimony by General Petraeus.
Very interesting stuff...
That's the whole article, not an excerpt.
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