If true, it begs the question: Why have chemical weapons at all? I mean....here is a country on the eve of invasion....and instead of preparing their most feared "weapon" for defense...they are hiding it in another country. Yeeesh. What's the point? Why have a weapon that you can't use? ESPECIALLY when the mere presence of said weapon was the (stated) reason for the war in the first place!
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder if this is true? > > > > http://news.investors.com/article/618875/201207191902/syria-chemical-weapons-came-from-iraq-.htm > > War On Terror: As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the > security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in > Saddam Hussein's air force says they were the WMDs we didn't find in > Iraq. > > King Abdullah of neighboring Jordan warned that a disintegrating Syria > on the verge of civil war puts Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons > at risk of falling into the hands of al-Qaida. > > "One of the worst-case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look > for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles > were to fall into unfriendly hands," he said. > > The irony here is that the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian thug > Assad may in large part be the legacy of weapons moved from Hussein's > Iraq into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom. > > If so, this may be the reason not much was found in the way of WMD by > victorious U.S. forces in 2003. > > In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the > Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, > wrote a comprehensive book, "Saddam's Secrets." > > It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass > destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate > Hussein's WMD threat. > > As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were > converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special > Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons > materials. > > There were 56 flights disguised as a relief effort after a 2002 Syrian > dam collapse. > > There were also truck convoys into Syria. Sada's comments came more > than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi > Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the > chemical agents from Iraq to Syria." > > Both Israeli and U.S. intelligence observed large truck convoys > leaving Iraq and entering Syria in the weeks and months before > Operation Iraqi Freedom, John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary of > defense for international technology security, told a private > conference of former weapons inspectors and intelligence experts held > in Arlington, Va., in 2006. > > According to Shaw, ex-Russian intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov, a > KGB general with long-standing ties to Saddam, went to Iraq in > December 2002 and stayed until just before the U.S.-led invasion in > March 2003. > > Anticipating the invasion, his job was to supervise the removal of > such weapons and erase as much evidence of Russian involvement as > possible > > . > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353004 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
