From the NY Sun: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 WMD team has been saying this for quite some time, but it is nice to hear some folks who were actually responsible for it to finally admit it.
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.
"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."
Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."
Mark's Remarks
Well, Matt, even if Iraq did not have a vast storehouse, they had the means and the machinery to start up their production again. Richard Miniter in the book Disinformation discusses this in debunking one of the media myths in the war on terror, that Iraq had NO WMDs. They had the means and the motive. Whether or not these latest allegations are true is really of little consequence. In a post-9/11 world, we cannot trust a dictator who has gassed his own people not do develop wmds to use against us, with known and documented ties to terrorists. WE simply cannot be that naive any more.
