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This is a request to mods to move this thread out of the politics forum, because, politically speaking, this is a "settled" matter. This subject is more appropriate in "General Discussion", or in "Paranoia", just as, most of us accept..... the 9/11 "Conspiracy" threads are, until and if the time comes when a controversy can be convincingly "backed up".
The third quote box makes it probable that General Sada is employing "heresay" to sell a book.
The Duelfer Report found no evidence to confirm Sada's claim. The Bush administration has never retracted the Jan. 12, 2005 statements to the press by their spokesman, about this matter, available in the second quote box, below.
Quote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
Report Discounts Iraqi Arms Threat
U.S. Inspector Says Hussein Lacked Means
By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 6, 2004; Page A01
.....The Bush administration has held out the possibility that illicit weapons and their components were secreted by Hussein across the border into Syria. This may still be true, but Duelfer's team did not find any proof to support this notion, the official said. "They have no evidence of this," the official said. "It's an unresolved issue." Syria denies it aided the hiding of illicit materials......
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Quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0050112-7.html
January 12, 2005
.............. Q The President accepts that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, he said back in October that the comprehensive report by Charles Duelfer concluded what his predecessor had said, as well, that the weapons that we all believed were there, based on the intelligence, were not there. And now what is important is that we need to go back and look at what was wrong with much of the intelligence that we accumulated over a 12-year period and that our allies had accumulated over that same period of time, and correct any flaws.
Q I just want to make sure, though, because you said something about following up on additional reports and learning more about the regime. You are not trying to hold out to the American people the possibility that there might still be weapons somewhere there, are you?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I just said that if there are -- if there are any other reports, obviously, of weapons of mass destruction, then people will follow up on those reports. I'm just stating a fact....
......... Q Two follow-ups. There's been quite a bit of talk that Syria might have hidden some of these weapons of mass destruction. Is the government of Syria cooperating at all in the search for WMD?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, you have the report from Charles Duelfer. You can go and look at that report in terms of addressing those issues, and I think the President has spoken to the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction. Obviously, if there are any other reports that come to people's attention, they'll follow up on those reports. ......
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Quote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182941,00.html
WMD in Syria?
Friday, January 27, 2006
By Brit Hume
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:
The number two general in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved its weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the U.S. invasion. In a new book titled "Saddam's Secrets," former general Georges Sada recounts the story of <b>two airline pilots who told him Saddam's Republican Guard loaded chemical weapons onto two converted civilian aircraft, which the pilots then flew into neighboring Syria under the guise of humanitarian relief.</b>
Sada tells FOX News he believes the Syrian government knows exactly where the weapons are saying, "I am sure that these weapons have landed in Damascus. Where could they have gone?"....
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Quote:
http://www.cbc.ca/insite/WORLD_REPOR...2005/4/26.html
April 26, 2005
In international news.....
The CIA agent in charge of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has concluded his work. Charles Duelfer says the search has been exhausted without finding any weapons. Nor did he find any evidence that weapons were shipped from Iraq to Syria to be hidden before the U.S.-led invasion.
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...and as recently as yesterday....
Quote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188665,00.html
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. & WORLD
Transcripts Show Saddam Frustrated Over WMD Claims
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
....Scores of Iraqi documents, seized after the 2003 invasion, are being released at the request of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, who has <b>suggested that evidence might turn up that the Iraqis hid their weapons or sent them to neighboring Syria. No such evidence has emerged...</b>
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Last edited by host; 03-23-2006 at 01:13 AM..
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