Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006 11:47 a.m. EST

Iraq Official: Saddam Moved WMD to Syria


The former number two official in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi air force claims the former Iraqi dictator moved weapons of mass destruction from Iraq to Syria in the months preceding the current Iraq war.

Georges Sada revealed the charges in an interview Wednesday with the New York Sun. They are detailed in his new book, "Saddam’s Secrets.”

"Saddam realized, this time, the Americans are coming," Sada told the Sun. "They handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians.”

The former Iraqi general said Special Republican Guard brigades loaded WMDs onto two converted Iraqi Airways planes.


He said he was told of the operation by two pilots that helped transport the materials. Sada says 56 flights were made, and were accompanied by a ground convoy of trucks carrying similar materials.

The Sun reports that the flights attracted scant international attention because they occurred at the same time that Iraq was sending relief to Syria for a dam collapse.


Sada’s claims echoed those made by Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s top general in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yaalon told the Sun in December that Saddam had "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”


According to the Middle East Quarterly, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon issued a similar warning in a Dec. 23, 2002 television appearance on Israel’s Channel 2.

"Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria,” Sharon said.


Together, their claims challenge the conventional wisdom in the United States and Europe that pre-war intelligence estimates were incorrect in suggesting the mass-murdering Iraqi dictator either possessed or was close to possessing WMDs.


Even President Bush has conceded the point, telling Americans in a televised address in December, "It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong.”


Recent reports by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard have similarly challenged the conventional wisdom on Saddam’s relationships with al-Qaida.


Hayes is calling for the release of approximately 2 million unclassified documents recovered in Iraq from the Hussein regime. He claims the documents could prove Saddam maintained significant contacts with al-Qaida.


Sada’s and Yaalon’s claims will be even more difficult, if not impossible, to prove, but several U.S. Senators will try to get to the bottom of the claims. Sada is scheduled to meet with Senators Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., next week. Both are members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"No, we're not liars. We're just too stupid to know where the WMD's are."

So, what you're saying Rory, is that we attacked the wrong country?

Sure he did Rory...sure he did.

rory.....fetch the weapons rory....sniff em out boy...good boy rory keep lookin boy........check over by syria.....good dog good dog

I thought he buried 'em in your backyard???

Anyway, it would have made for a more entertaining thread.

"So, what you're saying Rory, is that we attacked the wrong country?"

No it's just that we have more to deal with now.

Of course the hand wringers will have their say .

What flavor boots is Bush wearing today, bootlicker?

Dan

"What flavor boots is Bush wearing today, bootlicker?"

Ask a liberal they are the ones's claiming he is using them on them and their civil rights. My boots smell lile liberal [Bleeeeep!] from the ass kicking I have given you girl's.

KT is ass kicking? NPD is becomming outright delusional in KT's case. And it isn't his boots, it's KT's cyber personality that's smellin' like [Bleeeeep!].

Those lycra riding shorts are a little too tight it would be a bigger problem if your nads did not shrivel up like dried peas years ago GH

KT knows anything about nads? Doubtful. His only acquaintance with anatomy is his own cerebral-rectal inversion.

Doesn't it make you ill to have him thinking about you in tight shorts and about your nads too? It would make my skin crawl.

I trust this Sada guy to be telling the truth about as much as I trust Chalabi. Which is not at all.

Only because he's had a pair bouncing off his chin so often.

Quit braggin gabout your Dad at glory holes at I -5 the rest stops.

Learn how to type, dumbass.

OK Mom!

I've never been on public assistance.

Sure you have you went to public school.

That my parents paid for. In fact, they probably paid my share and your share.

Show me the recipts for the tax revenue paid and the expenses. I bet the expenses were more?

How about the roads you drive? The power you use?

Shall I continue?

Wait until I get those tax receipts for you.

Now you are trying the bar whore stuff with him? You must be real lonely.

Unless you're a big plate of biscuits and gravy...........

Listen BH here is how it works with men. If they are going to fight it's not premeditated and only fools let women or bar whores goad them into it. Lupo or anyone would have to piss me off face to face to get a fight out of me. Even then there would be no big announcement or arrangement just a couple of quick pops in the chops and down to the ground for the wrestling match. Thats how it works. Only a fool tries to start or arrange a fight that is premeditated over the internet. Who knows who is going to show up with who and what weapons. I ain't no fool and I certainly am not afraid of any thing you can conger up in your twisted mind. No go do the unimaginable for you be a decent wife quit pretending to be a man and be a mother to your kids and a grandmother to your grandkids and leave the man stuff to the men.

At least be consistant if you want to act like a man. Men can give each other [Bleeeeep!] all day long and never it take it personal. You can say anything about men as long as it is not true we laugh at it. Unlike you when called a BH you get all woman like and mean, emotional. Now I know why your husband chose the Navy long extended trips away from you and real women in every port.

God AuntyM! I shore don't want to ever get you PO'ed at me!

KT expects us to believe a chickenhawk like him knows anything about fights and fighting. Not only that, he says, "I ain't no fool . . ." He's more delusional than I suspected.

I've never met a chickenhawk who did his own fighting.

I've also never met anyone with a loud mouth who could actually fight. They usually either retreat or are the really low IQ types who get their ass kicked, shut their mouth for a while, forget what it was like to get their ass kicked and start mouthing off again.

Sounds like you Stlhd. But I bethe only time you are quiet is when you have your cake hole filled with food.