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'Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria'
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Posted on 04/07/2008 1:40:26 PM PDT by jhpigott

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To: demsux

......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.


21 posted on 04/07/2008 1:55:07 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: ASA Vet

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.


22 posted on 04/07/2008 1:55:24 PM PDT by Azeem (Only thing worse than war is peace at all costs.)
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To: LS; jveritas

Very cool. Be sure to talk with jveritas before publishing.


23 posted on 04/07/2008 1:55:35 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: jhpigott
I'm having trouble getting into the site...anyone else?
24 posted on 04/07/2008 1:55:40 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: jhpigott

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.


25 posted on 04/07/2008 1:56:03 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Vicki
Of course he moved WMDs over the Syria, but this seems to be never brought up.

In 2004, the police in Jordan seized 20 tons of chemical weapons coming over the border from Syria. Why do the MSM never bring this up? Where did all those chemicals come from? Syria certainly doesn't have the capability to produce this kind of stuff.
26 posted on 04/07/2008 1:56:09 PM PDT by wolfpat (If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
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To: rhombus

Must have typed it in from his blackberry from the casino.


27 posted on 04/07/2008 1:56:41 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: rhombus

why yes, a typo....I have a recording of it returning to the US


28 posted on 04/07/2008 1:57:49 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Vicki

Jay Rockefeller, SOCIALIST-WV, apparently gave our enemies forewarning about the impending attack. So much for trusting these traitors withour national security.
29 posted on 04/07/2008 2:00:03 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: jhpigott

This will be hugh!


30 posted on 04/07/2008 2:02:55 PM PDT by Pantera
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To: jhpigott
Awww...geez...ya really think so? From the archives:

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.'"

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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."

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"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."

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"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).

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"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."

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"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."

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See also: What Charles Duelfer Missed

31 posted on 04/07/2008 2:03:25 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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Syria has arrested 10 intelligence officials following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh.

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.

32 posted on 04/07/2008 2:06:16 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: bert
will shame those here who say Bush is worthless

/wishful thinking

33 posted on 04/07/2008 2:21:59 PM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Democrats (and 'republicans') - keep your compassionate fingers out of my wallet!)
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To: BurbankKarl
I have a recording of it returning to the US

A recording of it? What's it?

34 posted on 04/07/2008 2:26:18 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: jhpigott

Popcorn Time...;0)


35 posted on 04/07/2008 2:31:37 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: jhpigott

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?


36 posted on 04/07/2008 2:32:12 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: pnh102

True...but the better answer is....well duh!!!!


37 posted on 04/07/2008 2:33:11 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever
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To: Recovering_Democrat; NormsRevenge; elhombrelibre; Allegra; SandRat; tobyhill; G8 Diplomat; Dog; ...

Our enemies within.


38 posted on 04/07/2008 2:34:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

oh boy.. here we go..


39 posted on 04/07/2008 2:35:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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40 posted on 04/07/2008 2:37:46 PM PDT by txhurl
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