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U.S. MILITARY STILL BELIEVES WMD IN SYRIA
Washington DC, September 25, 2004 /RPS News/
-- According to Middle East Newsline, the U.S. military continues to
believe that the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq transferred much of
its weapons of mass destruction arsenal to neighboring Syria.
U.S. officials said that U.S. Army Intelligence does not share the
conclusion that Saddam had abandoned his WMD program before the U.S.-led
war against Iraq in 2003. They said military intelligence has attributed
the U.S. failure to find Iraqi WMD platforms or munitions to Saddam's
transfer of these systems to Syria in late 2002 and early 2003.
Over the last year, U.S. Central Command has helped the Iraqi Survey Group
in the search for WMD in Iraq. The group has wound down its activities in
Iraq without any success.
"The Iraqi Survey Group has yet to submit its final report," Lt. Gen.
Lance Smith, deputy chief of U.S. Central Command, said. "Besides, who
knows what we will find in two years, who knows what was moved to
countries like Syria. What we know for certain is that Saddam Hussain had
carried out research into an array of weapons of mass destruction."
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