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November 18, 2005UN Confirms: WMD smuggled out of Iraq? UPDATEDUPDATE: Bumped to top! *** Scroll down for new posts *** Bumped to top for this update from Jason at Generation Why: Documents May Reveal Iraq had WMDs and Ties to Al-Qaida Many of the documents from Doha had been entered into a database known as HARMONY. HARMONY is a thick stew of reports and findings from a variety of intelligence agencies and military units, and alongside the Iraqi documents were reports from contributing U.S. agencies. Go read the whole thing. END UPDATE Hmmm, took a walk over to the Political Teen to see the Clinton video everyone is talking about. I couldn’t get it to run, but I didn’t really need to; I DO remember the event. I DO remember that President Clinton was adamant that Saddam had run out of chances. Just like I remember him doing nothing after the USS Cole was bombed. More interesting to me was this article from June, 2004 - linked to in the comments section: UN Confirms: WMD Smuggled out of Iraq. Another one of those stories, like this one which a news hound like me never saw, for some reason. Late last week, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) briefed the Security Council on Saddam’s lightning-fast dismantling of missile and WMD sites before and during the war. UNMOVIC executive chairman Demetrius Perricos detailed not only the export of thousands of tons of missile components, nuclear reactor vessels and fermenters for chemical and biological warheads, but also the discovery of many (but not most) of these items - with UN inspection tags still on them — as far afield as Jordan, Turkey and even Holland. Notably absent from that list is Iraq’s western neighbor Syria, ruled by its own Baath Party just like Saddam’s and closed to even the thought of an UNMOVIC inspection. Israeli intelligence has been reporting the large-scale smuggling of Saddam’s WMD program across the Syrian border since at least two months before the war. Syria has long been the world’s foremost state-sponsor of terrorism. Perricos highlighted the proliferation danger to the Security Council, as well he should: UNMOVIC has no idea where most of the WMD material is today, just that it exists and it’s gone; and anything in Syria is likely to be in Jerusalem or New York tomorrow. This is the biggest news story of 2004 so far. Yet you haven’t heard about it, have you? You probably haven’t heard about Canada’s Prime Minister Paul Martin either — a socialist and no friend of America. Addressing a group of 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal last month, Martin stated bluntly that terrorists have acquired WMDs from Saddam. “The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Huseein had, we don’t know where they are…. [T]errorists have access to all of them,” the Canadian premier warned. The tip of this terrorist sword was scarcely deflected on April 26th, when Jordanian intelligence broke up an al Qaeda conspiracy to detonate a large chemical device in the capital city of Amman…Over twenty tons of chemical weapons were seized from the conspirators, who were just days away from carrying out their plot. One wonders where CNN and USA Today think twenty tons of nerve gas and sarin came from: Chemical Weapons-Mart? Yet their coverage, like most major media outlets, mentioned not a word about Saddam’s smuggled WMDs, which — according to liberal dogma — “don’t exist.” Even though the UN says they do exist, now spread around the world. It’s not just the UN. Bill Clinton says they exist, even after the war: in a July 2003 interview with Larry King, the ex-president uncharacteristically defended George Bush, saying “it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there [was]…a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for” in Iraq. Every intelligence agency in the world — French, British, German, Russian, Czech, you name it — agreed before the war; Jordanian intelligence can certainly confirm their opinion today. I would love to have an actual NEWS article to back all of this up, but as we know, the press doesn’t cover this stuff. Anything that supports President Bush or mucks up a template goes unreported, these days. UPDATE: Jimmie Bise provides a newslink, bless him! AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) — Jordanian authorities said Monday they have broken up an alleged al Qaeda plot that would have unleashed a deadly cloud of chemicals in the heart of Jordan’s capital, Amman. The plot would have been more deadly than anything al Qaeda has done before, including the September 11 attacks, according to the Jordanian government. Among the alleged targets were the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian prime minister’s office and the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence. U.S. intelligence officials expressed caution about whether the chemicals captured by Jordanian authorities were intended to create a “toxic cloud” chemical weapon, but they said the large quantities involved were at a minimum intended to create “massive explosions.” Officials said there is debate within the CIA and other U.S. agencies over whether the plotters were planning to kill innocent people using toxic chemicals. And then there is this - the UN being unhappy because you know, we took nearly two tons of Uranium Out of Iraq without a permit, or something. H/T Confederate Yankee. http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/11/18/un-confirms-wmd-smuggled-out-of-iraq/trackback/ 17 Responses to “UN Confirms: WMD smuggled out of Iraq? UPDATED” |
November 17th, 2005 at 11:22 am
I actually had something on the incident in Jordan when it happened. It was my second ever blog post, actually.
CNN actually did a write-up on it, then the story pretty much disappeared. The kicker to that story is that there was a public confession where the guy mentioned Syrian involvement in getting the chemicals.
November 17th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
We have all of this evidence- all the actual-factual documented truth. What good does it do, A… if the Left and the media sweep the protection of the US under the rug to *get Bush*?
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I just cannot believe that a political party=Dems-harping on health care and education and all the important things they say the Right stops short on delivering; putting these same citizens at risk from long term terroist risk factors. I could seriously swear my head off and am so confused- at the selfishness of all of us, but in this case- the Dems. What in the devil do they think they are playing at???
November 18th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Very disturbing. In the link you provide, there is this; “38. Cleaning chemical suits and how to hide chemicals”
Do you remember the Chem suits that were found in the Finsbury Park Mosque? See this:
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.265475.0.chemical_suits_found_in_mosque_raid.php
November 18th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Anchoress said,”I would love to have an actual NEWS article to back all of this up, but as we know, the press doesn’t cover this stuff. Anything that supports President Bush or mucks up a template goes unreported, these days.”
What I don’t understand, is why doesn’t FOX news cover it?
November 18th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
[...] About those WMD’s [...]
November 18th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
“Notably absent from that list is Iraq’s western neighbor Syria, ruled by its own Baath Party just like Saddam’s and closed to even the thought of an UNMOVIC inspection. Israeli intelligence has been reporting the large-scale smuggling of Saddam’s WMD program across the Syrian border since at least two months before the war. Syria has long been the world’s foremost state-sponsor of terrorism.
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Perricos highlighted the proliferation danger to the Security Council, as well he should: UNMOVIC has no idea where most of the WMD material is today, just that it exists and it’s gone; and anything in Syria is likely to be in Jerusalem or New York tomorrow.”
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So if we know Iraq was smuggling weapons to Syria, and we acknowledge that Syria has many, many irrefutable ties to Islamic terrorism rather than the two or three pieces of intelligence suggesting but in no way proving a connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, why on earth did we invade Iraq instead of Syria? Not only would we have taken out a threat that was real (but faceless to the American people without a recognizable figurehead like Saddam) and established a democracy in Lebanon where the society was already clamoring for it (and eventually got it anyway), but we would have sent a message to not only the Middle East but the world at large that if you assist our enemies in playing hide-and-seek, we’re coming for you.
November 18th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
O.T.
Tonight The House will vote to pull the Troops from Iraq. We should consider every vote in favor of a pull out as a vote for complete surrender. I will send My Representative a white flag if he votes yes. What about you…will you do the same???
kelleyb
November 18th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
I’ve posted an update to one of our posts and tried to trackback to you but it isn’t working. I did. Really. Honest.
November 18th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Kelleyb,
Have you ever been in combat? Have you ever had an enemy poining a weapon in your direction?
November 18th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Chief, Not sure where you going with that…if you thinking that I have no right to think that cut and run is surrender then I think that your straw man is in need of A little back bone. I have not been a member of the military. But, I have spent 30+ years as a military spouse, I do have adult children who currently serve. I have attended many funerals of active duty
personel who have carried that weapon and have given their lives so that members of congress can sit in chamber and so that the left can attempt to rearrange history, so that you and I can have this exchange in a free society. I haven’t carried that weapon, But I am very aware of the cost. I have comforted widows and mothers,as have countless other military spouses
So, Chief, what is your point.
Kelleyb
November 19th, 2005 at 9:04 am
[...] Good question, especially with the breaking news about that UN report that found that Hussein smuggled WMDs out of Iraq (haven’t seen that in the New York Slimes, have you). That will pretty much take the wind out of the “Bush lied!” nonsense—what Pelosi and Reid will squeal about next is anybody’s guess. [...]
November 19th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
Miscellaneous Threads Worth Reviewing
UN Confirms: WMD smuggled out of Iraq? (The Anchoress)
Those who have thought it strange that despite all the so-called “evidences” against “WMD’s” and all the “Bush Lied” assertions made by various nattering nabobs
November 19th, 2005 at 9:47 pm
Winning a war with the left using logic is not possible. They have trouble going beyound a slogan with a few words and favor those slogans with the biggest lies which are then repeated over and over even in the face of proof or hypocracy from previous statements.
That is also why so many stay away from religion that calls for them to actually think, listen, and sacrifice of self for another, and obey. It is all about “me” and the flavor of the day with the left.
November 21st, 2005 at 9:24 am
Not only has this stuff moved to Syria (something which even Blix, Ritter and the UN always suspected), but if the dregs amount to 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium then we’re already in trouble. One reason we may be hesitating on taking out Syria is a realization that to do so would spark an immediate nuking of Israel. Deep doo doo indeed. Very few good options. Remember who got us here by kicking this can down the road so blithely throughout the ’90s.
November 21st, 2005 at 8:23 pm
[...] A lot of bloggers are taking it on the chin with the flu. Ed Morrissey is recouping I see and The Anchoress has been waylaid as well. But this post of hers on WMDs being found in Iraq (at some point) is a must read. [...]
November 22nd, 2005 at 9:27 am
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All this stuff on WMD’s is “fuzzy” - many of the documents are phony, no doubt put out to confuse the West.
But there is enough serious intelligence to document what the UN already knew - Saddam had WMD’s, so this is a non-issue.
For the Left, there will never be “enough” information, so discussing it with them is a waste of time.
And no doubt much of this information is classified - so don’t expect the “smoking gun” anytime soon.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Ruth Marcus: Comfort Addict
Men of peace sleep soundly at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.—probably not George Orwell, but true nonetheless Ruth Marcus’ current WaPo editorial follows another anti-male (and, by inclusion, anti-Bush) line: On…