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January 26, 2006
Assad's Got 'Em?
Today's NY Sun has an interview by Ira Stoll with a former high ranking Iraqi air force officer who claims to have direct knowledge that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were moved to Syria before the US invasion.
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets
," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.
Sada's account seems plausible to me, and may explain why all the world's intelligence agencies were convinced that Iraq did have an ongoing WMD program. Getting Assad to admit to having these weapons and turning them over for destruction will be quite another issue. As Matt Drudge would say, developing . . .
January 26, 2006 at 01:29 PM | Permalink
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