Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley

Drudge via World Tribune ^ | Monday, August 25, 2003

[RoughDobermann]

U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.

Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.

Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in tomorrow's new weekly edition.

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.

Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new. Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq. He and Assad made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and drugs to and from Iraq, according to the May 13, 2003 edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.

The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons.

Not surprisingly, U.S. inquiries in Beirut and Syria are being met with little substantive response, U.S. officials said.

[labowski]

MOAB bump!

[eureka!]

In time, the truth will out...

[Quilla]

[KevinDavis]

Patience is required.

[billbears]

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

LOL!! I guess the rhetoric for Project Bomb Syria wasn't going over very well lately. What to do, what to do? I know, they've got WMDs!!! Personally I figured they were going to be in Iran next...

[RoughDobermann]

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

Yeah, sure it didn't...

[b4its2late]

Agreed. Lob a MOAB or Three into the valley and see what blowed up!

[RS]

"Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies,..."

Gee... I wonder if we have a friend in that area that would have no qualms about taking them out ?

[swarthyguy]

Actually, DEBKA claimed this a few months ago.

[RoughDobermann]

Actually, DEBKA claimed this a few months ago

You know the old saying about a stopped clock, right? ;-)

[Semper Paratus]

getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States

And why is that?

[.cnI redruM]

THe signifigence didn't register??

Why hasn't Bush seriously overhauled the CIA?

What did they think those guys were hauling. Three years worth of Islamic Jihad Keg Party Fodder? Our intelligence agencies, whether run by Dems or GOPers, are apallingly bad. They spy worse than I spell.

[Frank_Discussion]

"Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq."

Faulty logic here, methinks. If we become very SURE that is where the materiel was secreted to, I think we'll get to them easily.

"U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time."

In the post-9/11 world as of January of 2003, and the CIA didn't think this was significant? Not bloody likely.

"U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains
The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons."

If true, Syria should duck and cover.

[finnman69]

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

I find that hard to believe.I think we knew early on they were moving this stuff out.

[RoughDobermann]

LOL! See 7.

[cajungirl]

of course we knew, we just waited and watched till they went to the place where the really really bad guys congregate. Now we will see what we are made of.

[Frank_Discussion]

If I was a battlefield commander, I would be pretty pleased to know that such stuff was being trucked at least a little to the outskirts of the theatre. And Saddam probably thought we wouldn't have the stones to go after it all in a country other than Iraq.

This last point may have been a wee miscalculation...

[cajungirl]

whatever,,

[vin-one]

they should do more than duck and cover
they may need to leave the area completely
nuclear waste takes a long time to disapate

Big Bang Bump.....