{"id":5287,"date":"2013-10-01T20:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2013-10-01T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:54:59","slug":"iraq-did-have-weapons-of-mass-destruction-according-to-new-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2013\/10\/01\/iraq-did-have-weapons-of-mass-destruction-according-to-new-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Did Have Weapons of Mass Destruction According to New Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published by Communities.Washington Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SAN DIEGO<\/strong>,\u00a0October, 1, 2013\u00a0\u2014 International columnist and college professor Amir George insists that Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction really did exist. Speaking on The Bob Siegel Radio Show, George, who is promoting his book\u00a0Liberating Iraq<\/em>, offered some interesting insight into America\u2019s search for the WMD that prompted the Iraq war.<\/p>\n

An Iraqi who now teaches at Chiba University in Chiba, Japan, George was in Iraq both before and after America\u2019s invasion. He was involved with early relief efforts after the war.<\/p>\n

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Since finding WMD\u2019s was the stated intention of the Bush administration\u2019s military campaign, Amir George\u2019s recent testimony helps re-open a news story that many thought had long since ridden off into the sunset. George\u2019s revelations are corroborated by other witnesses, long since put on record but mostly ignored or underplayed by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

The information in his book is drawn from meetings with the Iraqi prime minister, foreign minister, top U.S. and international officials, and the Iraqi people themselves.<\/p>\n

When asked how he obtained such connections, George said,\u00a0\u201cWe were there before the war \u2026 We brought the first relief truck of supplies right after the war. And as you can imagine, right after war, things are pretty much in flux. So it\u2019s basically whoever got there first kind of knew everybody and it developed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

George hopes to bring his message to many in the media. He was in the beginning stages of a book tour when he appeared on San Diego\u2019s KCBQ 1170, home of The Bob Siegel Radio Show.<\/p>\n

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San Diego is known as a \u201cNavy town.\u201d It hosts a large naval base, and is home to many servicemen and women.<\/p>\n

George\u2019s primary purpose in granting the interview to KCBQ was to help our country understand that many Iraqi people appreciate the American military, not only for their obvious liberation from an evil dictator, but also for a \u201cspiritual renewal.\u201d George credits this renewal to the kindness of the American soldiers.<\/p>\n

But lightning seemed to strike in the middle of George\u2019s interview when the subject of Iraq\u2019s WMDs was raised. George freely and persuasively offered an account that contradicts conventional wisdom that America\u2019s intelligence was mistaken or that \u201cBush lied.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s fascinating to everybody, to be perfectly frank,\u201d George said. \u201cAll I can say is that first of all, one of our distant relatives was actually a part of the situation right before the war and he directly says they flew part of them into Iran, they flew other parts of them into Syria and then other parts of them they buried in the desert. And, well, we detail in the book, we had a number of conversations and the conversations were always very strange, because nobody really can talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When asked how the Bush administration could have failed to hear of these accounts and why they would not have vindicated themselves if they had known the truth, George said that very question was put directly to a U.S. soldier in Iraq who replied, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you, but what would you do if you were looking for something that was supposed to be somebody else\u2019s and you found it and it turned out to be yours?\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, at least some of those weapons had been supplied to Saddam Hussein by the United States during Iraq\u2019s war with Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially what happened,\u201d George explained, \u201cwas there were all the weapons that, you know, we thought there were but they had been from a previous generation and most of them were ours as well as our allies \u2026 So \u2026 I think every one was stuck with this catch-22 situation \u2026 Either you say that you couldn\u2019t find them or you say we found them and they\u2019re ours \u2026 each of them being equally difficult \u2026 and they chose as far as we can tell \u2026 \u2018we couldn\u2019t find them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

George\u2019s radio spot provides an interesting sequel to an earlier 2005 interview with Victor Mordecai, former Israeli Defense Force spokesman for the Judea and Samaria Command and former senior editor\/translator for the government press office under Prime Minister Hakluyt Shamir.<\/p>\n

When asked if Iraq\u2019s WMDs existed and found their way into other countries, Mordecai replied, \u201cThe answer is definitely \u2018Yes.\u2019 And by the way, my wife \u2026 Egyptian born and Arabic speaking, works in intelligence gathering. And they were watching the satellite monitors, of these tremendous 18 wheelers, crossing over from Iraq into Syria, prior to the recent war in Iraq, prior to the American invasion of Iraq. And the weapons were sent to Syria; the weapons were sent to Libya; the weapons were sent to Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to talk about \u201cthe gassing of the blacks in the south of Sudan from the weapons they received from Iran and Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suggesting that the Bush administration would, in all likelihood, have been privy to Israeli intelligence, Mordecai was asked the same question that was put to Amir George: Why would President Bush not vindicate himself?<\/p>\n

Mordecai\u2019s answer was brief and sobering. \u201cThree letter word: O-I-L.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mordecai\u2019s comments were not the only revelations from Israel.<\/p>\n

An article in the 2005 Middle East Quarterly described an appearance on Israel\u2019s Channel 2 on December 23, 2002, of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. The prime minister said, \u201cChemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Syrian government denied the claim. But Syria\u2019s stellar reputation for truth telling did not discourage the New York Sun from investigating further.<\/p>\n

In 2006, Moshe Yaalon, Israel\u2019s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, told the Sun that Saddam \u201ctransferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

A little more than a month later, the Sun obtained an additional interview, this time with an Iraqi general, Georges Sada, the second in command of Saddam Hussein\u2019s air force. Sada went on record to say that weapons of mass destruction were hidden in commercial airplanes and smuggled into Syria prior to America\u2019s arrival. This was made possible by the removal of passenger seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands \u2026 I am confident they were taken over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sada claims to have obtained this information first hand from the pilots of the two airliners who approached him quietly and confided in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know them very well. They are very good friends of mine. We trust each other. We are friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

For safety reasons, Sada refrained from mentioning names.<\/p>\n

According to these pilots, two Iraqi Airways Boeings carried \u201cyellow barrels with skull and crossbones on each barrel.\u201d The pilots, he said, mentioned 56 flights and other weapons removed from the country in trucks.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaddam realized, this time, the Americans are coming,\u201d Sada continued. \u201cThey handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about Sada,\u00a0Amir George confirmed his story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are exactly the facts. They were flown to Iran, they were shipped across the border to Syria, and then buried in the desert. So the situation in Syria that\u2019s developing in many ways is connected to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The variety of corroborating testimony warrants a second look into America\u2019s confusing rapport with Iraq so that our history books can be written properly.<\/p>\n

Assuming these reports are true, it is anybody\u2019s guess why George Bush would not have chosen to disclose the information.<\/p>\n

The fact that America once supported Iraq against Iran was not a secret. Did the timing seem difficult? Would the discovery of our own weapons look embarrassing after we provided the world with such a compelling case to remove WMDs?<\/p>\n

Was there an additional motive regarding our oil interests as suggested by Victor Mordecai?<\/p>\n

Was America\u2019s need for oil so important and so delicate that our government chose to ignore the shipping of weapons from one country to another so as to not upset the balance of power in that delicate, unstable part of the world?<\/p>\n

Did it seem easier and more diplomatic to act like our intelligence was wrong?<\/p>\n

Whatever the reasons, nobody profits from a lie. In this case, hiding the source of Hussein\u2019s weapons spawned a much worse tale. Historical revisionists continue to suggest that George Bush invented a phony excuse to go to war. How sad if covering up one lie is the reason our former Commander-in-Chief was accused of telling a much worse lie.<\/p>\n

This is especally ironic to people like\u00a0Amir George who wrote his book for a more important reason than discussing WMDs. Quite simply, he wants America to know that Iraq is glad we liberated her from an evil tyrant.<\/p>\n

This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.<\/p>\n

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The New York Sun and The Middle East Quarterly contributed to some of the news details of this article. The KCBQ radio interviews were conducted by Bob Siegel on\u00a0The Bob Siegel Show<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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