{"id":6204,"date":"2011-11-26T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2011-11-26T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:23:16","slug":"former-iraqi-general-saddams-wmds-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/former-iraqi-general-saddams-wmds-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iraqi General: Saddam's WMDs in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update: Apparently, this has been well-researched and of course poorly reported. \u00a0This may be a good time to “make some hay”, as we are slinking away from a crumbling Iraq and Syria is bustin’ loose. \u00a0Well, at least there’s Iran to help stabilize the region, right, Murtha?]<\/p>\n

I have said all along that the WMDs went to Syria, but I thought the reported “endless convoy” of trucks going north as we came in from the south was the event. \u00a0This former Iraqi general says that it was much earlier, using the cover story of relief materiel to aid after a dam burst. \u00a0There’s a tent-peg at [the date the dam burst] and November1, 2002. \u00a0If he’s right, the WMDs were transferred between those dates.<\/p>\n

The “relief” airlift and convoy would likely have been publicized, or else it’s not much of a cover story. \u00a0I’ll see what I can find.<\/p>\n

Saddam’s WMDs were moved to Syria – YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[Update: Apparently, this has been well-researched and of course poorly reported. \u00a0This may be a good time to “make some hay”, as we are slinking away from a crumbling Iraq and Syria is bustin’ loose. \u00a0Well, at least there’s Iran to help stabilize the region, right, Murtha?]<\/p>\n

I have said all along that the WMDs went to Syria, but I thought the reported “endless convoy” of trucks going north as we came in from the south was the event. \u00a0This former Iraqi general says that it was much earlier, using the cover story of relief materiel to aid after a dam burst. \u00a0There’s a tent-peg at [the date the dam burst] and November1, 2002. \u00a0If he’s right, the WMDs were transferred between those dates.<\/p>\n

The “relief” airlift and … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}