An interesting document was translated recently from a Iraqi opposition agent in Syria. It was written on Mar 14th, 2003 (arabic calender Mohorram 10) one week before our invasion and it details the fact that many many Iraqi trucks entered Syria and that the information he received was they were full of Iraqi WMD's:
Click to enlarge the translated letter. Here is the original in arabic:
The city where these trucks were unloaded is Dayr az Zawr which is along the Euphrates:
A small city with a population a little over 100,000 which appears perfect to hide these weapons.
This may not be the smoking gun but as in a criminal trial you could say that a preponderance of the evidence points to it's legitimacy.
Word of these documents hit the blogosphere yesterday and guess what? Not one MSM outfit has reported on it.
Surprised?
UPDATE
This ties in neatly with the report of Russians convoying out of Iraq into Syria:
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in Moscow to discuss the war in Iraq, met with Russian officials Monday to allay concerns following a Sunday attack on a Russian diplomatic convoy as it attempted to leave the war zone.
The convoy of 25 diplomats, including Russia's ambassador to Iraq, Vladimir Titorenko, was hit by ground fire near a western Baghdad suburb Sunday. Five diplomats were reported wounded, some seriously, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said on Russian television.
[…]News reports said the vehicles, some with visible bullet holes, arrived safely in Syria on Monday, but had left at least one wounded official behind in an Iraqi hospital.
"I saw six cars with Iraqi diplomatic number plates including the (Russian) ambassador's car," a Reuters cameraman reported from the Tanf border crossing in Syria. "He was driving his car which had two bullet holes in it, one in the glass and one on the driver's side. The other cars also had bullet holes."
UPDATE II
Debka, the site that has a somewhat negative reputation for being the enquirer of the intelligence community obviously got this one right when it reported on Feb 14th, 2003:
"In the last two weeks, our military sources discovered that Iraq staged a major removal of its forbidden weapons systems, sending them overland by truck to Lebanon via Syria."
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