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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says
By IRA STOLL - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 26, 2006

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.

http://www.nysun.com/article/26514?page_no=1

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

So they attacked the wrong country?

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

and we should believe him because...

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

edit: post was meant for other thread.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

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Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Saddam had chemical weapons. He used them. That was never in dispute.

It was not unreasonable to assume that he had some left over.

The problem was that the W. Bush Administration linked Saddam to 9/11 and bin Laden, and then painted him as an immeninent threat to the U.S. in 2002-2003, alleging that Saddam and bin Laden were conspiring to produce "mushroom clouds" over the U.S., etc., which was not accurate.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

It was unreasonable since every inspection team who was there and people in who were in charge of investigating this were saying the exact opposite.

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

How would they know the inner secrets of Saddam's regime?

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

C'mon, Joo, this is crazy. Next you're gonna be telling us that Assad had a hand in the Hariri assassination.

Actually, some skepticism is warranted, but this isn't as groundbreaking as it seems. How dangerous could Saddam's WMD program have been if it were transported by two pilots in two planes? No the mushroom cloud, indeed, Gopher.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Nobody's saying he didn't have 'em at one point and hadn't used 'em earlier.

What is being said is that in the months running up to the invasion, Hans Blix's team reported (twice at least) that there were none. That there were none reported and that this fact was disregarded and did not prevent the invasion is the issue.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

My point is simply that it is not unreasonable at all to have assumed that Saddam had some kind of WMD program, based on his demonstrated history with the things.

I never believed that he was an immediate threat to the U.S., however, or that he was linked in any way to bin Laden, and I continue to believe that the Iraqi War was an unjust war for that reason.

There could be all kinds of explanations why we never found the WMD or WMD facilities, though, and the one Joo offers here is not implausible at all. I'd just like to see some direct evidence before buying it.