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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (113366)	8/29/2003 5:12:58 PM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Since when is Debka the end all source for intelligence? Just because they say something it is true? I like reading their stuff but I'd hardly label all of it 100% accurate and free of conjecture. Call me an idiot, but when Rumsfeld travels to Iraq in the 80's on Bechtels behalf to ask Saddam for a pipeline, and he is turned down, he suddenly shows up years later pushing for a war on Iraq. And guess what? Bechtel is magically awarded the contract IN SECRET BEFORE THE WAR even starts for the EXACT same pipeline they wanted in the 80's. And now the talk of a pipeline to Israel from Iraq? Something really smells here......

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (113366)	8/30/2003 1:22:15 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Debka says the stocks were trucked into Syria in January. Debka isn't the only one now. Scoop for Debka. worldtribune.com Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, August 26, 2003 U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located. Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq. Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in Wednesday's new weekly edition. U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time. U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads. Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new. Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq. He and Assad made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and drugs to and from Iraq, according to the May 13, 2003 edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com. The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons. Not surprisingly, U.S. inquiries in Beirut and Syria are being met with little substantive response, U.S. officials said.