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Thursday, November 22, 2007

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.

2 comments:

Incognito said...

wouldn't be surprised... I think a lot of us surmised that they were shipped there at some point in time prior to invasion.

Reliapundit said...

I GUESSED THIS MONTHS AGO:


(1) from a post at TAB on july 3rd, 2007:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2007/07/saddam-lied-and-bushs-numbers-died.html

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: [TO SEE THE JPEG USE THE LINK!]

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.

Labels: Iraq War, UN = POLITICAL BROTHEL, WMD
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(2) also, this - which i posted on october 27, 2007:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2007/10/satellite-photo-reveals-syria-began.html

* 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.

Labels: Iraq War, Syria, WMD

I WAS PRESCIENT, PERHAPS...