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July 18, 2006
WMD
On June 9th [2004], the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council about the export of Iraqi WMD, missile and nuclear components shipped out of Iraq before, during and after the invasion. As reported by MENL news service, UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the Council:
"The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," and said inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.
The World Tribune reported on Perricos's briefing.
"He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month... The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters ... required for the production of chemical and biological warheads. 'It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for,' Perricos's spokesman, said. 'You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax.'"
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said "vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to the arms programs were shipped to Syria."
"Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."
In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.
"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.
Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.
In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said."
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org).
"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."
"Two days before the war, on March 17th, we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and technical (satellite,eavesdrop) intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 Iraqis, going to Syria."
Posted by Wild Thing at July 18, 2006 12:08 AM
Comments
It's remarkable how much the West is in denial, what better way to deploy those secreted WMD's from Iraq than against Israeli forces in a ground battle on Syrian soil. What to do? Suck up to the UN of course.
The five permanent members of the Security Council are China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and the United States.
The 10 non-permanent members of the Council in 2006 are Argentina (2006), Congo (2007), Denmark (2006), Ghana (2007), Greece (2006), Japan (2006), Peru (2007), Qatar (2007), Slovak Republic (2007) and the United Republic of Tanzania (2006).
Now which three of the five permanent members have been supplying the MiddleEast terror states with weapons? We know the ten non-permanent members don't have the infrastructure. These weapons are what the Israeli people are facing every day, most are made by the Russians and Chinese.
Iranian Rockets http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/mrl-iran.htm
Hizballah Rockets http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hizballah-rockets.htm
Katyusha Rocket http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/katyusha.htm
Posted by: Jack at July 18, 2006 09:30 AM
I wonder if the people who have Iraq's former WMDs know how to use them? They may end up accidentally annihilating themselves as so many of the bomb makers do. Of course, then it will be blamed on Israel.
I keep hoping for some big bangs in North Korea as they mess with things beyond their expertise.
Posted by: TomR at July 18, 2006 01:55 PM
Thank you Jack so much the links in your comment and the information and dates of things too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 18, 2006 03:35 PM
Good point Tom, they might try to use them but now I am not sure of this but I think the guys that knew how to use them ran off or turned themseleves in to our troops. So it probably would be amatures using them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 18, 2006 03:38 PM
