The answer to the missing explosives may have just been broken wide open… And this is not going to bode well for John Kerry. The story, written by no less than Bill Gertz, in tomorrow’s The Washington Times suggests that Russia had moved the missing weaponry from Iraq to Syria.
“John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad. “
Now, why would the Russians do this? Simple;
“”The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units,” Mr. Shaw said. “Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis.
Now first, Long-time readers may recall I made repeated mention in this space that there were a long line of trucks having moved the weapons to Syria just prior to the US-led invasion. Score: Bithead, 1 point.
You may also recall that I made mention of Russia never getting involved in Iraq for the same reason as France; they were up to their asses in it with Saddam. Score Bithead, 1 point.
Now, given the situation, we now better understand why the rather interesting hands-off policy and hush up policy about that line of trucks headed from that area to Syria that I’ve been speaking about, all this time.
But more… Gertz reports….
“Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs.”
Think John Kerry’s people will have much to say about this?
Update: 102804085517
Boortz notes a bit of a discrepancy in the IAEA report… says they reported only 3 tons missing, not the 380 tons. Hmmm.
He also notes the Gertz story and wonders if it’ll slow Kerry’s lying spree down. He doubts it and so do I.
Whiskey over at CQ makes note of the Gertz story as well. The Captain himself weighs in with a somewhat different angle.
However this falls out, it seems clear now that ths story is not what the press and John Kerry’s election comittee…(A redundancy) is telling us it is.
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