Duefler: materials left Iraq and went into Syria

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GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'
Iraq Survey Group head does not rule out Saddam's transfer of WMD
Posted: October 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Oct. 6, Charles Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, did not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.

Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war.

"A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."

The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Duelfer, said Russia, Syria, Jordan and other arms suppliers were paid from Iraqi oil revenues.

A CIA report, authored by the Iraq Survey Group, identified Russia and Syria atop a list of 12 arms suppliers to Iraq until the U.S.-led war against Baghdad started in March 2003.

The report listed Russia and Syria above North Korea — regarded as the leading missile proliferator to the Middle East — as leading suppliers to Baghdad.

Jordan was the third largest supplier of weapons to Iraq.

After Jordan came Belarus, China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France, Romania and Turkey. The report said these countries were involved in both "weapons of mass destruction and arms-related procurement."

The report said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay for both conventional and nonconventional weapons and components.

The report said state-owned companies in Russia and Syria defied U.N. sanctions and supplied weapons and platforms to Baghdad. The report said Syria also served as the leading route for illegal arms supplies from Europe and other countries.

Several of Iraq's neighbors were said to have joined in the secret military effort to aid Baghdad. The report — based on interviews with senior Iraqi officials and 40 million pages of do ents and classified intelligence — cited Jordan and Turkey as leading suppliers to the Saddam regime.

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How hard is to figure out that Saddam moved them given the fact that we gave him a warning of nearly 2 years?

He would have had to move them even if he was going to let inspectors back into the country.

Let's see...

Those that stood against us in this war: On Saddam's payroll. All of them.

WMD - The equipment is there, now we just got to find out where he moved the hard evidence he was working on WMD programs.

And if he wasn't working on WMD programs then why did he kick the inspectors out in the first place?

It's really not hard to figure out what is going on here...what's hard to figure out is why people would rather blame Bush for the rest of the World's Corruption.

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