www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40946

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Oct. 6, Charles Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, did not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.

Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war.

"A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."

The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Duelfer, said Russia, Syria, Jordan and other arms suppliers were paid from Iraqi oil revenues.

A CIA report, authored by the Iraq Survey Group, identified Russia and Syria atop a list of 12 arms suppliers to Iraq until the U.S.-led war against Baghdad started in March 2003.

The report listed Russia and Syria above North Korea — regarded as the leading missile proliferator to the Middle East — as leading suppliers to Baghdad.

Jordan was the third largest supplier of weapons to Iraq.

After Jordan came Belarus, China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France, Romania and Turkey. The report said these countries were involved in both "weapons of mass destruction and arms-related procurement."

The report said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay for both conventional and nonconventional weapons and components.

The report said state-owned companies in Russia and Syria defied U.N. sanctions and supplied weapons and platforms to Baghdad. The report said Syria also served as the leading route for illegal arms supplies from Europe and other countries.

Several of Iraq's neighbors were said to have joined in the secret military effort to aid Baghdad. The report — based on interviews with senior Iraqi officials and 40 million pages of documents and classified intelligence — cited Jordan and Turkey as leading suppliers to the Saddam regime.

Bilster

In case you haven't noticed, the media is run by liberals who do everything they can to make Bush look bad.  They would never air anything that might make him look good or incinuate he was right about the invasion of Iraq.

The same report the media and Dems are touting as showing Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction is the most damning report released to date (against Sadaam) and shows that we were 100% justified.

"did not rule out" does not mean anything - that's why.  It's one of those weasel-words (or expressions) that lawyers are experts at using - because nothing has the probability of zero.

They have NO evidence that such tranfers took place, but they also do not know for sure that it didn't.  

(another example is that they have found NO ties between Saddam and Al Qaeda, but they can easily say that they haven't ruled it out that such ties might have existed, even if they have found no evidence of it).



Is the sun going to go nova tomorrow and destroy the Earth?  It's highly unlikely, but scientists cannot rule it out.  Should that be on the news?

Quoted: In case you haven't noticed, the media is run by liberals who do everything they can to make Bush look bad.  They would never air anything that might make him look good or incinuate he was right about the invasion of Iraq. The same report the media and Dems are touting as showing Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction is the most damning report released to date (against Sadaam) and shows that we were 100% justified.

Silly me!  What was I thinking?

Bilster