"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Backyard Renegade wrote:

Let me ask a question here. Is it at all possible that the
convoys
of
trucks tracked into Seria the last few weeks while the French,
Russians, and Germans held the majority of the member countries
back,
were the very carefully accounted for WMD moving to the Bekka
(sp?)
valley in Lebanon? Could we really know where they are

As to your question, certainly it is possible, but it is unlikely.
The
Israelis, who are far more sophisticated in these matters than we
are,
would have noticed.

Hehehe. You haven't been paying attention. The Israeli's *did*
notice.
Read:

Syria denies hiding Iraqi weapons
Sharon: Israel investigating reports
Wednesday, December 25, 2002 Posted: 3:13 PM EST (2013 GMT)



A bit naive about the Israelis, are we?

Me, naive? You said "the Israeli's would have noticed" convoys of large
trucks heading into Syria. I told you they already *did* notice...and I
provided a link from ONE YEAR AGO to prove it.

What's your spin now that you've been made to eat your words?



And the follow-up to a nothing report is?

I'm waiting.



Israeli Intelligence Leaks Knowledge of Iraqi Weapons Moved to Lebanon
before US Invasion

Israeli intelligence leaked that it knew that the Weapons of Mass
Destruction that Iraq was accused of having had been moved to Lebanon a
month before the invasion of Iraq.

Source: Debka.com, 2003-05-25 00:00:00.000



Syria is reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly s intelligence sources as having
secretly disposed of Saddam Hussein s weapons of mass destruction by moving
them into eastern Lebanon for burial in the Beqaa Valley. Iraq s biological
weapons may be there too. They were interred deep under the heroin poppy and
cotton fields in two of the most fertile regions of Lebanon: the valley
stretching between Jabal Akroum, the town of al Qbayyat and the Syrian
border, and the land lying between the towns of Al Hirmil and al Labwah
between the Orontes River and the Syrian frontier.

On February 14, about a month before the start of the war in Iraq,
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Issue 97 ran an article captioned Is Iraq s WMD cache in
Lebanon available to Al Qaeda? To subscribe to DNW click HERE

Now, our intelligence sources can disclose exclusively that the relocation
of Iraq s WMD systems took place between January 10 and March 10 and was
completed just 10 days before the US-led offensive was launched against
Iraq. The banned arsenal, hauled in giant tankers from Iraq to Syria and
from there to the Bekaa Valley under Syrian special forces and military
intelligence escort, was discharged into pits 6-8 meters across and 25-35
meters deep dug by Syrian army engineers. They were sealed and planted over
with new seedlings. Nonetheless, their location is known and detectable with
the right instruments. Our sources have learned that Syria was paid about
$35 million to make Saddam Hussein s forbidden weapons disappear.

Before US secretary of state Colin Powell arrived in Damascus on Saturday,
May 3, the Syrians made the placatory gesture to Washington of speeding and
upgrading the handover of Iraqi fugitives from the Saddam regime sheltering
in Syria

DEBKA-Net-Weekly has learned from its most exclusive sources that on Monday,
April 28, Dr. RihabTaha, a microbiologist known as Dr. Germ, was turned over
to the Americans in Iraq. She had directed Iraq s biological weapons
program. Also turned over was Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, who headed Iraq s
anthrax project. No announcement was made of their capture. However, the
surrender 24 hours later of Taha s husband, General Amir Muhammed Rasheed,
director of Iraq s missile development program and best known by his
nickname The Missile Man , was announced.

The United States is therefore fully apprised of the whereabouts of Saddam
Hussein s arsenal of unconventional weapons and has taken custody of the
scientists who developed them.

But DEBKA-Net-Weekly s sources say Washington was nevertheless far from
placated and Powell s meeting with the Syrian president Saturday was a
confrontation. The secretary of state laid down the following demands:

1. A map with the coordinates of the pits holding Iraq s weapons of mass
destruction.

2. Surrender of Saddam s most senior insiders who fled to Aleppo and
Latakiya. After DEBKA file blew the whistle on April 3, the group staying at
the Cote D Azur De Cham Resort in Latakia was whisked away leaving their
families comfortably ensconced there.

3. Handover of the two senior Al Qaeda members now in Damascus.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly s military and intelligence sources say their names and
whereabouts were uncovered by US intelligence units in Iraq.

4. An explanation of Syrian motives in allowing two British terrorists,
Assif Hanif, who blew himself up in Tel Aviv on April 30, and Omar Khan
Sharif, who ran away, to transit Damascus en route to Israel. (One of the
duo spent four months of preparation in the Syrian capital with the Hamas
operations officer and associate of Hizballah Imad al-Alami, as reported
exclusively by DEBKA file .)

5. An immediate stop to the military-terrorist activities of the Lebanese
Hizballah and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Syria and Lebanon.
Failure to do so, Powell explained, will result in a painful tightening of
economic pressure on Syria, after the loss of $1b in oil revenues from
Baghdad.


Powell suggested that Assad invite Abu Mazen, the new Palestinian prime
minister, to Damascus. This step would further underline Yasser Arafat s
state of isolation in view of his never having been received in Damascus. It
could lead to an invitation from the Bush administration to invite the
leaders of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq s new regime and the
Palestinians to a regional conference that would set the stage for Syrian
and Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel.

Powell told Assad bluntly to choose between confrontation and negotiations.

At the same time, DEBKA-Net-Weekly s Middle East experts stress that Powell
s stance was tough yet exploratory. The Bush administration is still in
option-weighing mode, pondering how best to proceed in the post Iraq war era
to achieve its two main objectives: One is to advance America s long-range
strategic goals in the Middle East. The second is to get Bush re-elected as
President in November 2004.