No WMDs - Fact or Fiction?
Last Month, Georges Sada, Saddam Hussein’s No. 2 man in the Iraqi Air Force, confirmed to the New York Sun that Iraqi WMDs were moved to Syria just before the war began [ Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says ]
Mr. Sada, 65, told the Sun that the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons of mass destruction to Syria from Iraq approached him in the middle of 2004, after Saddam was captured by American troops.
These pilots appearently told Sada that two commercial Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to transport planes by removing the seats. Then the Republican Guard loaded the planes with containers labeled with skull and crossbones, and the contents were then flown to Syria under the guise of a commercial flight. 56 such flights were made in all.
Now we have another high ranking official coming out with similar information.
Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti, southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia in the late 80s, discussed Saddam’s al-Qaida link with worldthreats.com. Although al-Tikriti defected shortly before the first Gulf War, he is confident that Iraqs WMDs (which he confirmed existed prior to his defection) were moved to Syria based on contingency plans between Baghdad and Damascus.
“I have discussed this in-depth with various contacts of mine who have confirmed what I already knew,” he said. Saddam…”wanted since he took power to embarrass the West, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so,” al-Tikriti said… What we are witnessing now, he said, “is many who opposed the war to begin with are rallying around Saddam saying we overthrew a sovereign leader based on a lie about WMD. This is exactly what Saddam wanted and predicted… Some of Saddam’s key scientists are personal friends of mine, as well as other key leaders in the former Iraqi military,” he said. “I have helped draw information since my defecting to the United States government voluntarily and with the permission of these contacts. “
[ Full Story: Saddam general: WMDs in Syria ]
Fact or Fiction?‚ We don’t know. But it is interesting that we haven’t heard more of a push from the media to draw out this information. No, solid proof would actually legitimize the conflict, and we wouldn’t want that, now would we?
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