War (of Words) with Syria

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Thursday, Oct 30, 2003

[A hunch, you say? Lock and load!]

U.S. VOICES ASSESSMENT OF WMD TO SYRIA
Middle East Newsline -- October 29, 2003

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- For the first time, the U.S. intelligence community has released an assessment that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were transferred to neighboring Syria in the weeks prior to the U.S.-led war against the Saddam Hussein regime.

U.S. officials said the assessment was based on satellite images of convoys of Iraqi trucks that poured into Syria in February and March 2003. The officials said the intelligence community assessed that the trucks contained missiles and WMD components banned by the United Nations Security Council.

The U.S. intelligence assessment was discussed publicly for the first time by the director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in a briefing in Washington on Tuesday. James Clapper, a retired air force general and a leading member of the U.S. intelligence community, said he linked the disappearance of Iraqi WMD with the huge number of Iraqi trucks that entered Syria before and during the U.S. military campaign to topple the Saddam regime.

"I think personally that the [Iraqi] senior leadership saw what was coming and I think they went to some extraordinary lengths to dispose of the evidence," Clapper said. "I'll call it an educated hunch."
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Syria to get Iranian help amid US sanctions threat
AFP via Borneo Bulletin -- October 29, 2003


- mark 10-30-2003 7:38 am [link]

Syria, China hail bilateral relations
China View -- October 29, 2003


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U.S. says WMD went from Iraq to Syria
UPI via Washington Times -- October 29, 2003


- mark 10-30-2003 7:33 am [link]

[Oh yeah Mr. Lebanese politician, well NRO wants you dead.]

“If You Harbor a Terrorist”
Striking Syria to save Iraq
National Review Online -- October 27, 2003


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Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003

US fury over comment on Wolfowitz's near escape
smh.com.au -- October 29, 2003

A top Lebanese politician has enraged the US embassy by saying he hoped the next attack on the the US Defence Department's No. 2, Paul Wolfowitz, would prove fatal
- mark 10-29-2003 12:22 am [link]

Saturday, Oct 18, 2003

Mofaz: Winds of war aren't blowing from Damascus
Ha'aretz -- October 17, 2003


- mark 10-18-2003 9:16 am [link]

Al-Assad's speech before Islamic Summit Conference
SANA via Arabic News -- October 17, 2003


- mark 10-18-2003 9:10 am [link]

Assad slams ''fanatics'' in Bush administration, says Israel is ''terrorist state''
Al Bawaba -- October 16, 2003


- mark 10-18-2003 9:04 am [link]

Syrian leader condemns Iraqi war while his country votes for U.N. resolution
AP via New Orleans Times Picayune -- October 16, 2003


- mark 10-18-2003 8:59 am [link]