Monday, January 26, 2004
This ought to be front page newwwws baby. Cover material to tell the distrusting world how America isn't doing it for the oil or for a decade's worth of father-son grudges. Nor for wag-the-dog spindoctor tactics either, as critics choose to believe. Alas, the following was published today on disappointing page 17 in the local papers.
London - Part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme was transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, and their status has yet to be resolved, Mr David Kay, the just-resigned head of the Iraq Survey Group, told the Sunday Telegraph in what it called an exclusive interview. Mr Kay told the newspaper that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before the start of the Iraq war in March last year. "We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," Mr Kay was quoted as saying. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs," he said. Mr Kay stepped down Friday as leader of the Iraq Survey Group which, 10 months after the US and British invasion of Iraq, has yet to find any of Saddam's feared WMD.
London - Part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme was transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, and their status has yet to be resolved, Mr David Kay, the just-resigned head of the Iraq Survey Group, told the Sunday Telegraph in what it called an exclusive interview. Mr Kay told the newspaper that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before the start of the Iraq war in March last year. "We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," Mr Kay was quoted as saying. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs," he said. Mr Kay stepped down Friday as leader of the Iraq Survey Group which, 10 months after the US and British invasion of Iraq, has yet to find any of Saddam's feared WMD.
