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To: combjelly who wrote (790945)	6/20/2014 1:44:49 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578590

Any plant that produces insecticides can be tweaked to produce chemical weapons. That's where they came from. wtv-zone.com

To: combjelly who wrote (790945)	6/20/2014 1:48:59 PM
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"You do know that Iraq and Syria were not on the best of terms?" Wrong...again. ============ During nearly five decades in power, Syria's Baath Party has evolved from an Arab nationalist movement into a vast organisation that has infiltrated every aspect of public life. bbc.com The rebels currently sweeping through the country are radical Sunnis who have made allegiances with local groups who feel oppressed by the Shiite government. ISIL’s strength wouldn’t be as great without the help of those militant groups, which include former Baathists who lost power when Saddam Hussein was ousted. Baathists Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was the leader of the Baath Party. He's pictured here during his trial in Baghdad, Iraq on Jan. 29, 2006. Image: Darko Bandic/Associated Press Members of the once-ruling Baath Party have deep cultural roots in northern Iraq from where they have helped solidify ISIL’s military advance. The Baathists are more secular-minded, but they share a common enemy with the extremists: the Shiite government in Baghdad. mashable.com

To: combjelly who wrote (790945)	6/20/2014 9:34:37 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578590

Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria Pajamas Media ^ \| June 6, 2010 \| Ryan Mauro Posted on 6/6/2010 11:50:46 AM by TDCAnalyst Ha’aretz has revived the mystery surrounding the inability to find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq, the most commonly cited justification for Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the most embarrassing episodes for the United States. Satellite photos of a suspicious site in Syria are providing new support for the reporting of a Syrian journalist who briefly rocked the world with his reporting that Iraq’s WMD had been sent to three sites in Syria just before the invasion commenced. The newspaper reveals that a 200 square-kilometer area in northwestern Syria has been photographed by satellites at the request of a Western intelligence agency at least 16 times, the most recent being taken in January. The site is near Masyaf, and it has at least five installations and hidden paths leading underneath the mountains. This supports the reporting of Nizar Nayouf, an award-winning Syrian journalist who said in 2004 that his sources confirmed that Saddam Hussein’s WMDs were in Syria. One of the three specific sites he mentioned was an underground base underneath Al-Baida, which is one kilometer south of Masyaf. This is a perfect match. The suspicious features in the photos and the fact that a Western intelligence agency is so interested in the site support Nayouf’s reporting, showing that his sources in Syria did indeed have access to specific information about secret activity that is likely WMD-related. Richard Radcliffe, one of my co-writers at WorldThreats.com, noticed that Masyaf is located on a road that goes from Hamah, where there is an airfield sufficient to handle relatively large aircraft, into Lebanon and the western side of the Bekaa Valley, another location said to house Iraqi weapons. (Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...

To: combjelly who wrote (790945)	6/20/2014 9:36:26 PM
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Iraq Chemical Weapons Moved to Syria Before 2003 Invasion? JULY 2012 By UltimaRatioReg James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence in the Obama Administration, thought so. From the Daily Beast: Whether or not sensitive weapons technology was moved to Syria is a hotly disputed question in the intelligence community. James Clapper, now the Director of National Intelligence and formerly the director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, said in 2003 that he believed materials had been moved out of Iraq in the months before the war and cited satellite imagery. If the Bashar al-Assad regime falls, and should the securing of the chemical and biological stockpiles of Syria be necessary, what would be the effect if some of those materials and munitions bear Iraqi markings? Former Iraqi General Sada asserted that Saddam’s chemical stockpile was lifted, in his book “Saddam’s Secrets” and summarized by Investor’s Business Daily: As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons materials. There were 56 flights disguised as a relief effort after a 2002 Syrian dam collapse. The IBD article also mentions Israeli General Yaalon’s assertions, and those of John Shaw regarding Russian assistance in the form of former KGB General Primakov: There were also truck convoys into Syria. Sada’s comments came more than a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.” Both Israeli and U.S. intelligence observed large truck convoys leaving Iraq and entering Syria in the weeks and months before Operation Iraqi Freedom, John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, told a private conference of former weapons inspectors and intelligence experts held in Arlington, Va., in 2006. According to Shaw, ex-Russian intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov, a KGB general with long-standing ties to Saddam, went to Iraq in December 2002 and stayed until just before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Anticipating the invasion, his job was to supervise the removal of such weapons and erase as much evidence of Russian involvement as possible. An interesting statement from Brian Sayers, the director of government relations for the Syria Support Group: We believe that if the United States does not act urgently, there is a real risk of a political vacuum in Syria, including the possibility of a dispersion of chemical weapons to rogue groups such as Hezbollah.” What of a regime such as Saddam Hussein’s in Iraq that was suspected of actively attempting to peddle such weapons? Should these suspicions surrounding Iraq’s possible pre-invasion transfer of its remaining chemical stockpile be confirmed, the silence being heard in the media regarding them will have been deafening. ************************************************************* Just in case folks still wanted to debate the existence of Syria’s stockpile, I think we might have our answer. How many carry Iraqi markings? How many, Russian?