"NOYB" wrote in message
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Ruh-roh. If the Iraqi WMD *are* hidden in the Bekaa Valley region (as
some have suggested), Syria has to be sweating the fact that they won't
have a friendly government in there any longer to help them conceal the
fact.

New evidence: Saddam's WMD in Lebanon
Weapons transferred to Syria before war, then to Bekaa Valley
May 20, 2004
WorldNetDaily

Over the last few months, the U.S. intelligence community has received new
evidence a sizable amount of Iraqi WMD systems, components and platforms
were transferred to Syria in the weeks leading up to the U.S.-led war in
Iraq, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.

But chances are the Bush administration won't be releasing this information
for a while.

The convoys were spotted by U.S. satellites in early 2003, but the contents
of the WMD convoys from Iraq to Syria were not confirmed.

Confirmation later came from Iraqi scientists and technicians questioned by
a U.S. team that was searching for Saddam's conventional weapons. But all
they knew was the convoys were heading west to Syria.

But over the last few months, U.S. intelligence managed to track the Iraqi
WMD convoy to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Through the use of satellites, electronic monitoring and human intelligence,
the intelligence community has determined that much, if not all, of Iraq's
biological and chemical weapons assets are being protected by Syria, with
Iranian help, in the Bekaa Valley.

The Syrians received word from Saddam Hussein in late 2002 that the Iraqi
WMD would be arriving and Syrian army engineering units began digging huge
trenches in the Bekaa Valley.

Saddam paid more than $30 million in cash for Syria to build the pits,
acquire the Iraqi WMD and conceal them.

At first, U.S. intelligence thought Iraqi WMD was stored in northern Syria.
But in February 2003 a Syrian defector told U.S. intelligence the WMD was
buried in or around three Syrian Air Force installations.

But intelligence sources said the Syrians kept dual-use nuclear components
for themselves while transferring the more incriminating material to
Lebanon.