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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Those WMD’s just won’t go away |
| 2004-05-02 |
| Found via Powerline EFL snip "We very clearly saw that something crossed into Syria," he said. "We have six or seven credible reports of Iraqi weapons being moved into Syria before the war," a senior administration official told Kenneth Timmerman of Insight magazine. A Syrian intelligence officer, in letters smuggled to an anti-regime activist in Paris, identified three sites in Syria where Iraqi WMD are being stored, Timmerman said. The sites were the same as those identified earlier by a Syrian journalist who defected to Europe... "New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein’s missing weapons of mass destruction is having better success than is being reported," Timmerman said. "In virtually every case -- chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles -- the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors." Charles Duelfer, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq, said that a primary source for funding Saddam’s illicit weapons programs was kickbacks on contracts set up under the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food program. When is his next report due? These developments have received little attention from the major media, perhaps because they are unhelpful to Democratic prospects in the fall. But what if the Jordanian attack had succeeded? What if the target had been Chicago instead of Amman? Some things are more important than domestic politics. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #9 Why do I think that the jihadis plan for some of these to show up in NYC during the Republican convention? I doubt we'll see any foreign terrorism then. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-03 8:24:06 AM |
| #8 Not certain, but I believe the the target for completion of the ISG "final" report was this July. Somewhat OT, but if Volcker's UN investigation proceeds expeditiously, as planned, that will make for two interesting news events. Another one would be Saddam's trial -- not sure when that's slated. |
| Posted by: IceCold 2004-05-02 11:23:56 PM |
| #7 Thanks, Frank for clearing up the identity of this Jack Kelly and for the link to realclearpolitics. I raised the question because he was making too much sense to be a former USA Today writer. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-05-02 9:49:19 PM |
| #6 see my post: http://www.rantburg.com/default.asp?D=5/2/2004#32061 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-02 7:43:48 PM |
| #5 nope! - this one writes (excellent) military-political articles in Pittsburgh. The other one is on "hiatus" to write a book, no doubt. I find this Kelly's articles usually via www.realclearpolitics.com |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-02 7:42:49 PM |
| #4 Is this the same Jack Kelly who was fired from USA Today for fabricating major stories? |
| Posted by: GK 2004-05-02 7:37:37 PM |
| #3 RWV - because you've got the common sense God gave a rock? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-02 4:56:17 PM |
| #2 Why do I think that the jihadis plan for some of these to show up in NYC during the Republican convention? |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-02 4:27:04 PM |
| #1 Some things are more important than domestic politics Only to some..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-02 4:16:35 PM |