Iraqi General: Syria Gave Al Qaida Saddam's WMDs

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I have been watching this for a while now. I have seen a couple of his interviews (has anybody else?)

Time to pay attention to him or is he a crack pot?
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A former senior military advisor to Saddam Hussein is warning that the chemical weapons used by top Al Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi in a foiled 2004 plot to attack Amman, Jordan were the same weapons Saddam Hussein transported to Syria before the U.S. invasion.

Gen. Georges Sada offered the stunning revelation Saturday while explaining why he didn't decide to go public about Saddam's hidden WMD stockpile until recently.

"As a general, you see, we should keep our secrets," Gen. Sada told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. But when news broke of the foiled WMD attack on Amman, he changed his mind.

"I understood that the terrorists were going to make an explosion in Amman in Jordan . . . . and they were targeting the prime minister of Jordan, the intelligence [headquarters] of Jordan, and maybe the American embassy in Jordan - and they were going to use the same chemical weapons which we had in Iraq," he told WABC.

Last week, Gen. Sada generated headlines when he told the New York Sun that Saddam had shipped his biological and chemical weapons stockpiles to Syria in the weeks before the U.S. attacked in March 2003.

But until yesterday, the former top Iraqi official had said nothing about al Qaida gaining access to those same weapons.

"It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," said Jordan's King Abdullah at the time, in an interview about the Zarqawi plot with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Had it succeeded, the WMD strike would have been the most deadly terrorist attack in world history, with Jordanian officials estimating that Zarqawi's al Qaida team could have killed up to 20,000 people.

While King Abdullah said that trucks containing chemical weapons had come from Syria, he did not identify Iraq as the ultimate source of Zarqawi's WMDs.

Gen. Sada, however, said he had no doubt that Zarqawi intended to use the same chemical weapons Saddam had sent to Syria.

Telling Crowley that he was "shocked" when news of the Zarqawi plot broke, Saddam's former top advisor recalled thinking: "My God, I know many things. How can I keep them [secret any longer]."

Gen. Sada also detailed on Saturday the Iraqi dictator's plan to launch his own WMD attack during the first Gulf War, explaining, "He wanted to attack Israel with chemical weapons."

The top Iraqi military man recalled a meeting of senior defense ministers where Saddam ordered: "I want you to do two things that are very important - to attack Israel and to attack Saudi Arabia with chemical weapons."

Gen. Sada said the planned WMD strike was to be carried out by 98 aircraft, including Soviet-built Sukhoi 24s, MiGs and French-built Mirage jets.

"One wave would fly through Syria and the other wave through Jordan and then penetrate to Israel," he said.

Gen. Sada recalled that he was the only one to raise objections, warning Saddam that such an attack would surely provoke a nuclear response from Tel Aviv.

"I told all this directly [to Saddam] and everybody was listening. If a needle was dropped on the carpet you would hear it," he told Crowley.

After presenting a nearly two-hour-long argument against the WMD attack, Gen. Sada said Saddam was finally persuaded to pull the plug on the deadly operation

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[matthewcline 0]

Well since the General is still alive for not agreeing with SH it has a bit of a "hhmm" factor in it.

So I disagree with his claim to have talked SH out of an attack, more than likely the A/C would not have been able to make it or they happened to already be inop by then.

But I believe there was WMD's in Iraq post 1991 pre 2003. That is just from actually talking to Insergents and the Iraqi and Kurd people, not from some TV or Web source.

But that is just me.

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[sundevil777 102]

I heard an extended radio interview with him on Friday.

He appeared to be very credible.

He was asked very directly about how he was able to argue with SH. He would ask permission of SH to explain a different opinion, and then offer it. He was perhaps the only advisor for SH that was not a 'yes man'. Apparently, SH valued that.

I couldn't find anything about this on CNN.com, isn't that amazing.

The story he tells is very threatening to the libs. Very threatening indeed.

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[matthewcline 0]

Left, right, what ever.

SH had WMDs through 1990 and according to the Kurds into late 2002.

What I do not understand, is why, if the Kurds are correct and speaking to many of our US politicians on their supposed "fact finding" trips, this is still not in the mdeia (left and tight)?

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[TheAnvil 0]

I doubt that CNN or the New York Slimes will cover this fellow very much - if at all.

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Where is FOX on this story?

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[sundevil777 102]

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Where is FOX on this story?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182941,00.html

and the interview with Sean Hannity:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182932,00.html

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[TheAnvil 0]

I heard Sean Hannity talking about this last week. He was interviewing the fellow on his radio show. I would be interested in reading any links anyone has.

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