Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley

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Monday, August 25, 2003

U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
have finally been located. Unfortunately, getting to them will be
nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because
the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.
Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa
Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah
and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in
Wednesday's new weekly edition.

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks
moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The
significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.
U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range
Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.

Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new.
Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has
been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq. He and Assad
made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and
drugs to and from Iraq, according to the May 13, 2003 edition
of Geostrategy-Direct.com.

The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq
and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's
strategic weapons. Not surprisingly, U.S. inquiries in Beirut and
Syria are being met with little substantive response, U.S. officials
said.

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