"During the last few months leading up to the Iraq war, some of Saddam's arsenal of WMDs was apparently being shipped across the Syrian border for safe-keeping. The Israelis believed that the bulk of it kept going, to be buried in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley, under Hezbollah control.
Now, our intelligence sources can disclose exclusively that the relocation of Iraq's WMD systems took place between January 10 and March 10 and was completed just 10 days before the US-led offensive was launched against Iraq. The banned arsenal, hauled in giant tankers from Iraq to Syria and from there to the Bekaa Valley under Syrian special forces and military intelligence escort, was discharged into pits 6-8 meters across and 25-35 meters deep dug by Syrian army engineers. They were sealed and planted over with new seedlings. Nonetheless, their location is known and detectable with the right instruments. Our sources have learned that Syria was paid about $35 million to make Saddam Hussein's forbidden weapons disappear.
The first part of this report matches what David Kay learned after spending several months in Iraq searching for the whereabouts of Saddam's arsenal. "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." The report was further corroborated by CIA satellite photos showing fleets of trucks moving from Iraq to Syria during February and March 2003. A Syrian journalist named Nizar Nayuf defected to the West in January 2004. He claimed to know of three locations in Syria where Saddam's WMDs were buried in February 2003. - Mensnewsdaily April 2004"
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IN FIRST, U.S. VOICES ASSESSMENT OF WMD TO SYRIA
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- For the first time, the U.S. intelligence community has
released an assessment that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were
transferred to neighboring Syria in the weeks prior to the U.S.-led war
against the Saddam Hussein regime.
U.S. officials said the assessment was based on satellite images of convoys
of Iraqi trucks that poured into Syria in February and March 2003. The
officials said the intelligence community assessed that the trucks contained
missiles and WMD components banned by the United Nations Security Council.
The U.S. intelligence assessment was discussed publicly for the first time
by the director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in a briefing in
Washington on Tuesday. James Clapper, a retired air force general and a
leading member of the U.S. intelligence community, said he linked the
disappearance of Iraqi WMD with the huge number of Iraqi trucks that entered
Syria before and during the U.S. military campaign to topple the Saddam
regime.
"I think personally that the [Iraqi] senior leadership saw what was coming
and I think they went to some extraordinary lengths to dispose of the
evidence," Clapper said. "I'll call it an educated hunch." - Middle East Newsline, 10/29/03
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml
http://www.nationalreview.com/geraghty/geraghty200401120834.asp
http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/secure/2004/5_25/me.asp?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/inter...1085457600&en=085ab29b91f15c17&ei=5070
Wow, it took me a whole ten minutes to find those. Liberals here have been complaining for weeks that there is no evidence, this is simple proof that they never looked. They decided to live in their hate Bush, fluffy bunny world instead of trying to comprehend facts and evidence. Is this a surprise, hell no. I have never met a liberal that really lived full time in the real world.