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Iraq and weapons of mass destruction - Former senior Iraqi General states: WMD was moved to Syria
Former senior Iraqi gereral, Georges Sada, has reported that in late 2002, Saddam ordered that all the stockpiles of WMD were to be moved to Syria. On January 25, 2006 on Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, the former number 2 officer in the Iraqi Air Force stated:
Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people. It was used against Kurds in the north, against Arabs — marsh Arabs in the south...
We went on to say that those weapons still existed in 2002:
Well, up to the year 2002, 2002, in summer, they were in Iraq. And after that, when Saddam realized that the inspectors are coming on the first of November and the Americans are coming, so he took the advantage of a natural disaster happened in Syria, a dam was broken. So he — he announced to the world that he is going to make an air bridge...
And then described what became of those weapons:
They were moved by air and by ground, 56 sorties by jumbo, 747, and 27 were moved, after they were converted to cargo aircraft, they were moved to Syria.[44], [45]
In a radio interview on WABC on January 28, 2006, General Sada said Syria gave these Iraqi chemical weapons to al-Qaida for an attack against Amman, Jordan. The planned chemical attack was prevented when one of the plotters turned himself in. [46]
Georges Sada has written a book about his experiences serving under Saddam in the Iraqi military in which he discusses the disposition of the weapons of mass destruction in detail.[47]
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