Those WMD

This (via Barcepundit) is interesting:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."

Comments

[Juan Golblado]

How long does it take for somebody to get a book into print? If there was anything to his claims, the Bush people would have had some deniable group playing them up by now.

[P. Froward]

Since when did the Bush people have a clue about PR? I don't think that tells us much one way or the other.

But I have no great trust in ex-Ba'athists.

I do think Israeli intelligence is more likely than most to know whether it happened or not, and if they know, the general probably does, but when there's spooks involved you can't take much at face value, can you?

[Dom]

The important question is, *why* were they moved? After all, the war was announced for months before it started. What is the point of removing weapons before an invasion begins?

[Rebecca]

To keep them from being found, presumably.