To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (20864 ) 12/25/2002 12:52:49 AM From: Richnorth Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 27666 Iraq has transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syria: Sharon JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Tuesday night that he had information that Iraq recently transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syria. 'There is information we are verifying. But we are certain that Iraq has recently moved chemical or biological weapons into Syria,' he told the private Channel Two television station. 'Saddam Hussein wanted to hide his weapons, and I think that the Americans know that,' said the Israeli leader, who has strongly backed US threats to topple the Iraqi leader's regime over its alleged weapons off mass destruction programmes. He added that 'Iraqi experts and scientists are working in the nuclear industry in Libya' and recalled that Israeli forces had recently arrested members of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank who had allegedly received training in Iraq. Mr Sharon said a cell from the Palestinian Liberation Front, a US-blacklisted breakaway faction of Mr Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation now based in Iraq, had 'trained in Iraq to carry out mega-attacks, notably against airplanes at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv with Strella missiles.' Strella missiles are Soviet-built, surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles. Mr Saddam has championed the Palestinians and financially supported their two-year uprising against decades of occupation, and Baghdad gives cash compensation to the families of suicide bombers and those killed in clashes with the Israeli army. Earlier on Tuesday, Israel's army intelligence chief reported to a parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committee that he expected the US to attack Iraq at the beginning of February. Major-General Aharon Zeevi said he was expecting the war to begin just shortly after the US administration reviews a UN weapons inspectors report, due to be submitted by Jan 27. -- AFP