Re: Israeli ex-General says WMD moved to Syria


"Bob Cooper" <rcooper1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xMSof.31153$Mi5.6959@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "kuff (Isaac Adams)" <kuff00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Bob Cooper wrote:
> > > "Count 1" <omnipitus2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > > http://www.nysun.com/article/24480
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> > > > Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
> > > >
> > > > By IRA STOLL - Staff Reporter of the Sun
> > > > December 15, 2005
> > > >
> > > > Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war
> > > > started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.
> > > >
> > > > The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the
> > > > intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was incorrect.
> > > >
> > > > The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam
> > > > spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. "He
> > > > transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria," General Yaalon told The
> > > > New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. "No one went to Syria
> > > > to find it."
> > > >
> > > > From July 2002 to June 2005, when he retired, General Yaalon was chief of
> > > > staff of the Israel Defense Force, the top job in the Israeli military,
> > > > analogous to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the American
> > > > military. He is now a military fellow at the Washington Institute for Near
> > > > East Policy. He made similar, but more speculative, remarks in April 2004
> > > > that attracted little notice in America; at that time he was quoted as
> > > > saying of the Iraqi weapons, "Perhaps they transferred them to another
> > > > country, such as Syria."
> > > > (...)
> > > > ***
> > >
> > > Thanks for posting this. I doubt we'll see much coverage of General
> > > Yaalon's comments in the NYT
> >
> > Judith Miller no longer answers her phone there.
>
> So I've heard. At least she's out of jail, though :>)

BTW, what do you think of the General's comments? Should we go
into Syria and have a peek?

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> > > or Washington Post.
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