Friday night fights

Re: “3. DOD versus WMD skepticism.”

Josef Bodansky, the former Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, in his book The Secret History of the Iraq War, reported the transfer of WMD to Syria that Captain Ed refers to.

Specifically, on page 231 he writes:

“On April 5, Saddam again faild to show up for an advertised address on Iraqi TV. Instead, an announcer read a message. While heavy artillery fire resumed that night on the airport compound, the anticpated Iraqi ground offensive failed to materialize. Russina intelligence sources reported, however, that a group from the Republican Guard and other units of the regular army from the Tikrit area made their way to syria in a daring operation including three hundred tanks, one hundrad GRAD multiple-barrel rocket launders (MBRLs), many of which had chemical warheads, and many other weapons systems, including Iraq’s entire WMD arsenal. Lebanese sources with access to eastern Syria confirmed the arrival of the column.”

and on pages 438 439:

In these high-level contacts, the former Iraqi senior officials grudgingly acknowledged that Saddam was not likely to return to power in Baghdad anytime soon. Therefore, Damascus decided to reduce the profile of its strategic cooperation with Saddam’s Baghdad—particularly on issues pertaining to WMD. Toward this end, the Iraqi stockpiles then stored near Kamishli were now moved to permanent storage sites in central Syria and northeastern Lebanon. The moving and concealment of the Iraqi WMD were conducted under the command of General Zou al-Himma-al-Shaleesh, a veteran of Syrian-Iraqi strategic cooperation and smuggling Assaf Shawqat, Bashar’s brother-in-law and deputy chief of Syrian military intelligence, personally supervised the undertaking. The first specific account of this action to transfer and hide of the Iraqi WMD was provided by Syrian opposition journalist Nizar Nayyouf, on the basis of detailed maps and notes he had received from “a Syrian senior officer who’d come a dissident.” Several Lebanese, Syrian, and other Arab seat, and/or intelligence sources subsequently confirmed Nayyouf’s reports and provided additional details about the whereabouts of Iraq’s WMD.

First to be moved were the large tanks containing chemical materials. They were put on flatbed trucks and moved to areas of northeastern Lebanon under Syrian military control where they were buried in pits near Hermel and in the northern Bekaa. The Iraqi operational weapons and other sensitive military components were transferred to three sites associated with comparable Syrian military activities. Most weapons and military equipment were moved in large wooden crates and barrels on flatbed trucks and by rail car; the most sensitive elements were transferred in ambulances. The Iraqi weapons and systems were concealed in three places at the heart of the Syrian military-industrial complex where they could be used to improve Syria’s own weapons and missile production.

Iraqi chemical warheads, ballistic missiles, and missile components (mainly engines and guidance kits) were concealed in North Korean-built tunnels in al-Baida, about 2 kilometers from Misyaf near Hama, the site of Syria’s main SCUD and warheads factories. The tunnel complex is controlled by Bureau 489 of the Cipher and Document Security Division of Syrian intelligence – the agencyh responsible for the security of Syria’s most sensitive facilities. Vitral parts of Iraq’s WMD munitions were stored in a Syrian Air Force munitions factory near the village of Tal Sinan, between the towns of Hama and Salamiyyah. This factory procudes aerial mujnitions and tanks for the Syrial Air Force.”

[sorry for the imperfect OCR]

And then there is the DOD release from June 29, 2006 which reports on testimony to Congress that approximately 500 WMD WERE FOUND IN IRAQI ARMY DUMPS post invasion.

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2006 – The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center’s commander said here today.

“These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes … they do constitute weapons of mass destruction,” Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee.

You have to live deep in denial to pretend that real, existing, WMD were NOT in Iraq before, during, and after the invasion.

Yet the leftstream media spiked the DOD story and will spike all news, even translation of captured enemy documents, that would vindicate the President and the administration on the existance of WMD.

Why?

Because (1) they want see the Bush Presidency fail, and (2) they intend to revise history, if possible, to insure (1).

georgej on July 29, 2006 at 3:34 AM