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Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'
The Chirac government, The E.U. 'superstate' corp, Kerry's brownshirts, the leftwing media, the U.N. crowd & all those in the 'America-Is-Always-Wrong Club' have fed the the world a Big Lie in that Saddam ended all aspects of Iraq's germ and chemical weapons programmes (wmd) either just after the Gulf War or sometime during the U.N. inspections. None of these people covering for Saddam & themselves, will ever admit Saddam not only 'trucked' his so-called wmd into Syria 3 months prior to the 2003 Iraqi war, but Saddam was also paid 32 million dollars in U.S. Dollars & Euros for the re-located wmd. Some of the very same foreign officials 'assisting Saddam with the 'U.N.'s 'Oil-for-Food' programme also 'assisted' Saddam in banking his millions. The Bush bashers will also remain silent on Saddam during the late 1990's having a real sweet crude oil deal with Syria's Assad, in which additional lucrative kickbacks were paid to many of the same players. Well, it's all being reviled now, one investigative report after the other. Saddam should just spill the beans and sing like a bird. Iraq Survey Group head does not rule out Saddam's transfer of WMD At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Oct. 6, Charles Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, did not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war. "A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say." The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Duelfer, said Russia, Syria, Jordan and other arms suppliers were paid from Iraqi oil revenues. A CIA report, authored by the Iraq Survey Group, identified Russia and Syria atop a list of 12 arms suppliers to Iraq until the U.S.-led war against Baghdad started in March 2003. The report listed Russia and Syria above North Korea — regarded as the leading missile proliferator to the Middle East — as leading suppliers to Baghdad. Jordan was the third largest supplier of weapons to Iraq. After Jordan came Belarus, China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France, Romania and Turkey. The report said these countries were involved in both "weapons of mass destruction and arms-related procurement." The report said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay for both conventional and nonconventional weapons and components. The report said state-owned companies in Russia and Syria defied U.N. sanctions and supplied weapons and platforms to Baghdad. The report said Syria also served as the leading route for illegal arms supplies from Europe and other countries. Several of Iraq's neighbors were said to have joined in the secret military effort to aid Baghdad. The report — based on interviews with senior Iraqi officials and 40 million pages of documents and classified intelligence — cited Jordan and Turkey as leading suppliers to the Saddam regime. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-16 |
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