The plot thickens. Russia was behind the transport. Makes sense out of Russia's position towards pre-war Iraq. According to Newsmax here
A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever
account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them.
"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.
"They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence," he said.
He called the evacuation of Saddam's WMD stockpiles "a well-orchestrated campaign using two neighboring client states with which the Russian leadership had a long time security relationship." Hat tip Busy Bee
Roger is blogging the summit here and Pajama Media has the most comprehensive coverage of the continuing WMD intel bombshells here. Check out the Hoesktra interview.
This will be ignored by the mainstream media, too busy shopping for orange hunting vests (but wearing orange highway vests instead, journalism, ha!) to wear to press conference. But this is important and relevant now. We are assigning a great amount of importance to Russia's "handling Iran's enrichment." Given what we are discovering now, this is not an option.
IRAN: TENSIONS MOUNT AHEAD OF MOSCOW ENRICHMENT TALKS
An Iranian delegation is due to travel to Moscow on February 20 to discuss a Russian proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock over Tehran’s controversial nuclear activities. Under the proposal, Iran would allow uranium-enrichment activities to take place on Russian soil.
This has no cred. None. Huge mistake.










File this article under: Things I wish I didn't know.
Posted by: associatecontributor1 | Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 05:15 PM
Something else we wish we didn't know about. In part:
See and hear the entire interview here.Posted by: elvis | Monday, February 20, 2006 at 01:13 AM