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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman says Iraqi WMD may be in Syria
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts said there was some concern Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had gone to Syria, and Washington vowed to carry on searching for such arms in Iraq. Roberts, a leading member of President Bushâs Republican Party, said in Washington on Wednesday: "I think that there is some concern that shipments of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) went to Syria." He did not elaborate.
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Syria, which borders Iraq, has in the past denied U.S. charges it has weapons of mass destruction programs and supports "terrorist activity."
Bush, seeking re-election in November with Iraq high on the campaign agenda, ordered U.S.-led forces to oust Saddam Hussein after accusing him of possessing chemical and biological arms and trying to build a nuclear weapon. "The jury is still out," Vice President Dick Cheney said on the failure so far to find any weapons of mass destruction since Saddam was toppled last April. "Itâs going to take some additional considerable period of time to look at all of the cubby holes and... dumps and all the places in Iraq where you might expect to find something like that," Cheney told U.S. National Public Radio.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-22 |
