[antimedia] antimedia: A long time ago I warned....

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A long time ago I warned....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167438896.shtml


   ....that would should be worried about where Sadaam's WMD were, not
   whether there were any. Common sense said that all the major
   intelligence agencies of the world could not have been wrong about the
   existence of those weapons. Yet liberals and Democrats, eager to gain
   whatever political advantage they could over Bush and completely
   oblivious to the consequences of their actions, insisted that there
   never were any weapons to begin with. The media, eager to oblige,
   trumpeted the "news" far and wide.
   Now it seems my concerns were [1]well-founded. Syria, it seems, has
   quite an advanced WMD program, including nuclear. Their program
   received a big boost from Sadaam.

     German magazine Der Spiegel revealed in March 2004 that Swedish
     authorities and the CIA were investigating a very likely Syrian
     nuclear program secretly developed in Homs in the northern part of
     the country. That July, investigators looking into the Pakistani
     nuclear network of A.Q. Khan pointed out that Syria may have
     procured centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to produce a
     bomb.
     This fact was confirmed in May 2006 in a declassified report to the
     U.S. Congress on the acquisition of technology relating to weapons
     of mass destruction. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Syria also
     got help from Saddam Husseinâs regime.
     Keep in mind that Syriaâs economy was very dependent on Iraqâs
     trade, especially oil-smuggling revenues. Sunday Telegraph
     journalist Con Coughlin affirmed in a September 2004 article that
     12 Iraqi nuclear scientists â who were transferred to Syria and
     given new identities before the war â were on their way to Iran to
     assist their counterparts there in building a nuclear weapon. âThe
     results of the research would then be shared with Syria,â Coughlin
     added.
     But what really broke the camelâs back was a recent report from the
     well-informed Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al Seyassah. It quoted
     European intelligence sources as saying that âSyria has an advanced
     nuclear programâ in a secret site located in the province of Al
     Hassaka, close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders. British sources
     quoted by the paper believe that âit is President Assadâs brother,
     Colonel Maher Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf, who supervise the
     program.â
     This nuclear weapons program is based on material that Saddam
     Husseinâs two sons shipped to Syria before â and during â the U.S.
     war against Iraq. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, this explains
     why international investigative teams found no proof of Husseinâs
     nuclear program.
     Furthermore, British sources in Brussels affirm that âIranian
     nuclear experts contribute to the Syrian program along with 60
     Iraqi experts who had taken refuge in Syria since 2003 and experts
     from the ex-Soviet republics.â British intelligence says this
     information is validated by their German counterparts, who were
     well established in the countries close to the ex- Communist block,
     including Syria. (Empahsis mine.)

   Playing politics with critical national security information has
   consequences far beyond the mundane concerns of a few power-hungry
   politicians, it seems. It will be interesting to see how the media
   attempts to explain this news, if they even bother. (I'm betting on
   the latter. Everything must serve the meme, it seems.)

References

   1. http://www.examiner.com/a-478177~Olivier_Guitta__Plan_B__Syria_s_forgotten___but_dangerous___nuclear_program.html