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Thursday, March 03, 2005

Russia Moved Iraqi WMD

OK, first the delusional columnist writes:

According to a former top Bush administration official, Russian special forces teams moved weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq to Syria.

'I am absolutely sure that Russian Spetsnatz units moved WMD out of Iraq before the war,' stated John Shaw, the former deputy undersecretary for international technology security.

...Shaw's assertions match the information provided by U.S. military forces that satellite surveillance showed extensive large-vehicle traffic crossing the Syrian border prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

But then he writes:

There is no question that the Russian effort to remove Iraqi WMD systems was the most successful intelligence operation of the 21st century.

The Russians were able to move hundreds of tons of chemical, biological and nuclear materials without being discovered by CIA satellites or NSA radio listening posts.

'There is a clear sense on how effective they were,' noted Shaw.

'The fact that the CIA did not know shows just how successful the Russian operation was,' he concluded.

First they saw it, and then they didn't, I guess. Hard to keep all the lies straight, isn't it fellas? (And if the CIA did see such traffic, why didn't they bomb it, intercept it and/or track it into Syria to later destroy it?) If I've ever read a made-up story, this is it.

Jack Clark 9:21 PM [+]   
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