Saturday, March 24, 2007
Iraq WMD's - Still around?
Or maybe, he's just pumping his book in the American way.
I wonder if history will reveal the truth...
I wonder if history will reveal the truth...
This is from an Ira Stoll interview in the New York Sun back in January:
"The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, 'Saddam's Secrets,' released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.
'There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,' Mr. Sada said. 'I am confident they were taken over.'
Mr. Sada's comments come just 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.'
Democrats have made the absence of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a theme in their criticism of the Bush administration's decision to go to war in 2003. And President Bush himself has conceded much of the point; in a televised prime-time address to Americans last month, he said, 'It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong.'
Said Mr. Bush, 'We did not find those weapons.'
The discovery of the weapons in Syria could alter the American political debate on the Iraq war. And even the accusations that they are there could step up international pressure on the government in Damascus. That government, led by Bashar Assad, is already facing a U.N. investigation over its alleged role in the assassination of a former prime minister of Lebanon. The Bush administration has criticized Syria for its support of terrorism and its failure to cooperate with the U.N. investigation."
