This will never satisfy those who continually ask “Where are Iraq’s WMD’s?” The naysayers say they never had them. Bull. This stuff has been around for a long time and once again surfaces:
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.
In my humble opinion, this happened during the time that the U.N. pussyfooted around issuing warning after warning to Hussein about giving the inspectors access. There was a particular time when no-fly-zone overflights were cancelled for a three-week span. That’s when reports of eighteen-wheelers trudging across the desert sands towards Syria began surfacing. About the time the last truck passed over the border Hussein opened the doors once again to fly-overs. The Mossad wrote a report on this but it never seemed to get anywhere.
Of course my theory is corroborated by various sources including this one:
Several different intelligence sources raised red flags about suspicious truck convoys from Iraq to Syria in the days, weeks, and months prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
These concerns first became public when, on December 23, 2002, Ariel Sharon stated on Israeli television, “Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria.” About three weeks later, Israel’s foreign minister repeated the accusation. The U.S., British, and Australian governments issued similar statements.
The Syrian foreign minister dismissed such charges as a U.S. attempt to divert attention from its problems in Iraq. But even if the Syrian regime were sincere, Bashar al-Assad’s previous statement—”I don’t do everything in this country,”—suggested that Iraqi chemical or biological weapons could cross the Syrian frontier without regime consent. Rather than exculpate the Syrian regime, such a scenario makes the presence of Iraqi weapons in Syria more worrisome, for it suggests that Assad might either eschew responsibility for their ultimate custody or may not actually be able to prevent their transfer to terrorist groups that enjoy close relations with officials in his regime.
Two former United Nations weapon inspectors in Iraq reinforced concerns about illicit transfer of weapon components into Syria in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s fall. Richard Butler viewed overhead imagery and other intelligence suggesting that Iraqis transported some weapons components into Syria. Butler did not think “the Iraqis wanted to give them to Syria, but … just wanted to get them out of the territory, out of the range of our inspections. Syria was prepared to be the custodian of them.” Former Iraq Survey Group head David Kay obtained corroborating information from the interrogation of former Iraqi officials. He said that the missing components were small in quantity, but he, nevertheless, felt that U.S. intelligence officials needed to determine what reached Syria.
And of course Bush followed the U.N. along until Kofi Annan was sure the stuff was out of country. Then Bush attacked Iraq… but by that time it was already too late to capture the WMD.
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