JPOST - VIA HOT AIR: US-ISRAELI REPORT WILL PROVE SADDAM TRANSFERED WMD TO SYRIA

HOT AIR:

Report: U.S.-Israeli study of airstrike on Syrian nuke facility will show Saddam transferred WMD

Rumors of the discovery of the holy grail of Iraq hawks surface once again. I am … how you say? Ah, yes: Skeptical.

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.

WE PREVIOUSLY BLOGGED ON THIS - IN RELATION TO THE ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE - HERE AND HERE.

THE NYSUN WROTE ON IT HERE - ON 2005.

AND REMEMBER THIS:

MORE HERE:

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, now director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, told reporters that U.S. surveillance satellites captured images of vehicle traffic dispersing WMD materiel to urban locations in Iraq and moving large quantities into Syria as well.

"Those below the senior leadership saw what was coming, and I think they went to extraordinary lengths to [dispose, destroy and disperse] the evidence," said Gen. Clapper.

"By the time that we got to a lot of these facilities...there wasn't that much there to look at. There was clearly an effort to disperse, bury and conceal certain equipment prior to inspections."

Gen. Clapper added that there is "no question" that people and WMD materiel were moved by truck convoys into Syria.

So... they went to Syria. AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

MAYBE WE WILL SOON SEE MORE PROOF THEY WENT TO SYRIAN?

STAY TUNED...

WHERE SADDAM'S WMDS WENT

No doubt this won't get much attention by the MSM as it contradicts what they want to believe, but here's what happened to Saddam's WMDs in past years (via IRIS Blog):

According to foreign reports, Israel destroyed a nuclear weapons installation in Syria in September. Never has a larger story been pushed under the rug by so many so quickly. What are we to make of this?

Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. His report was based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. These were the unread Arabic language documents that US forces seized, but had not managed to translate after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003.

After a prolonged battle between Congress and then director of US National Intelligence John Negroponte, President George W. Bush ordered those documents posted on a public access Web site last year. They were taken down after it was discovered that among the Iraqi documents were precise descriptions of how to build nuclear weapons.

As Loftus summarized, "The gist of the new evidence is this: Roughly one-quarter of Saddam's WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid 1990s. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons stockpile to his Arab neighbors during the mid-to-late-1990's. The Russians insisted on removing another quarter in the last few months before the war. The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam's nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003. His nuclear weapons equipment was hidden in enormous underwater warehouses beneath the Euphrates River. Saddam's entire nuclear inventory was later stolen from these warehouses right out from under the Americans' noses."

Loftus then cites Israeli sources who claim that the Iraqi nuclear program was transferred to the Deir az Zour province in Syria.

LOFTUS'S REPORT jibes with a report published on the Web site of Kuwait's Al Seyassah's newspaper on September 25, 2006. That report, which I noted last November, cited European intelligence sources and claimed that in late 2004 Syria began developing a nuclear program near its border with Turkey. Syria's program, which was run by President Bashar Assad's brother Maher and defended by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards brigade, had by mid-2006 "reached the stage of medium activity." The Kuwaiti report stated that the Syrian nuclear program was based "on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai transferred to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003."

The program, which was run by Iranians with assistance from Iraqi scientists and scientists from the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union, "was originally built on the remains of the Iraqi program after it was wholly transferred to Syria." These reports and several others like them which have surfaced over the past several years tell us interesting and disturbing things.

So it was good then that the IAF blew those nuclear plants in Syria to smithereens. Read the whole article, as it tells a lot of important information.

SATELLITE PHOTO REVEALS SYRIA BEGAN BUILDING SITE IN 2003 - was it nuclear, or did it hold Saddam's WMD?

NYTIMES - VIA HOT AIR:

The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened yesterday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.

The long genesis is likely to raise questions about whether the Bush administration overlooked a nascent atomic threat in Syria while planning and executing a war in Iraq, which was later found to have no active nuclear program.

A senior American intelligence official said yesterday that American analysts had looked carefully at the site from its early days, but were unsure then whether it posed a nuclear threat.

In the time before the Iraq war, President Bush and his senior advisers sounded many alarms about Baghdad’s reconstituting its nuclear program. But they have never publicly discussed what many analysts say appears to have been a long-running nuclear effort next door.

• FIRST, if this really was a nuclear site, then it points out that our intelligence services REALLY SUCK - especially the traitorous VALERIE PLAME whose specific responsibility this was. (It also UNDENIABLY proves how difficult it is to ever know with certainty what a tyrannical regime wants to keep secret. Tyrannical regimes like IRAN - who should realize that they are going to get the same treatment sooner rather than later).

• SECOND, maybe this was not a nuclear site. Maybe this site was constructed to house SADDAM'S WMD - which many authoritative sources argue were transported into Syria before the war. (See HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE). It is reasonable to assume that IF Assad "took in" Saddam's WMD that he'd have to build a place to keep them. Maybe this was the complex he built to house Saddam's WMD.

• International teams should be allowed into Syria at once to inspect the site.

WMD ACCIDENT IN SYRIA?

JPOST - VIA WILLISMS:

'Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment'

Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.

According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas.

Reports of the accident were circulated at the time; however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection.

MAYBE THE CW WERE SADDAM'S? MAYBE THIS IS WHY THE IAF WHACKED'EM?

BTW: LAST WEEK KUCINICH - THE DARLING OF THE LEFT - SAID HE WAS HONORED TO SPEND TIME WITH ASSAD.

SADDAM LIED, AND BUSH'S NUMBERS DIED

AMERICAN THINKER:

Don't Be So Sure There Were No WMD in Iraq

By Rachel Neuwirth

The references cited in this article strongly suggest that:

1. WMD did indeed exist inside Iraq before the war.

2. The weapons inspectors were both fooled and bribed to ignore evidence.

3. Massive amounts of WMD were removed to known locations in Syria just prior to the war.

4. Massive numbers of Saddam's audio tapes and paper documents were collected and most remain unavailable and presumably un-translated.

5. U.S. officials refused to investigate a number of likely WMD sites.

6. The U.S. intelligence community, and other branches of this government, are stonewalling the issue.

RTWT. READ THE REFERENCES TOO.

THERE WERE WMD IN IRAQ.

BUSH DID NOT LIE.

THE WAR WAS JUST, HONORABLE AND RIGHT AND GOOD.

ALL WE NEED IT THE RESOLVE TO SEE THE PROJECT THROUGH TO COMPLETION.

WHICH WON'T HAPPEN IF WE ELECT A DEM TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

UPDATE: FROM READER PAUL (IN COMMENTS): a jpeg is worth a million words:

MORE HERE:

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, now director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, told reporters that U.S. surveillance satellites captured images of vehicle traffic dispersing WMD materiel to urban locations in Iraq and moving large quantities into Syria as well.

"Those below the senior leadership saw what was coming, and I think they went to extraordinary lengths to [dispose, destroy and disperse] the evidence," said Gen. Clapper.

"By the time that we got to a lot of these facilities...there wasn't that much there to look at. There was clearly an effort to disperse, bury and conceal certain equipment prior to inspections."

Gen. Clapper added that there is "no question" that people and WMD materiel were moved by truck convoys into Syria.

So... they went to Syria. AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Maybe redeployed - to the Europe and the USA for detonation in a jihadoterrorist attack?

BOTTOM-LINE TO THIS POST:

BUSH TOOK A HUGE HIT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T DISCOVER A HUGE CACHE OF WMD IN IRAQ. THEN CAME THE TRUMPED UP KATRINA RESPONSE AND THE TRUMPED UP PLAME-WILSON-LIBBY BULLSHIT.

BUT THE "MISSING" WMD WAS THE FIRST MAJOR CRACK IN BUSH'S POST-9/11 POPULARITY. And it's BS.