Are WMDs Still Out There?
Once again, I rarely do this without checking Snopes, first, but nothing came up on Snopes regarding this issue, so I've posted it here. Even if it ISN'T valid, I feel as though it has some information within it that should make people think.
Insider’s Book Should Blow Lid Off WMD Debate By Doug Patton February 13, 2006
On Sunday morning, February 12, 2006, in a church in Bellevue, Nebraska, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was a witness to history. There, at the sparsely attended 8:30 service, stood Gen. Georges Sada, a retired Iraqi general from Saddam Hussein’s air force. As he shared his personal testimony, I found myself wondering how long the so-called mainstream media could ignore the message he was imparting.
Sada is a member of the board of directors of World Compassion, headed by Dr. Terry Law, an Oklahoma minister who accompanied the general on Sunday morning. The reasons for Sada’s presence in the church were two-fold: to profess his own Christian faith and to let Americans know that liberating Iraq was the just and right thing to do.
Gen. Sada has just published a book entitled “Saddam’s Secrets.” In it, he describes his experiences as an Iraqi Air Force general and Saddam advisor who frequently told the Iraqi dictator the truth when others would not, and how God protected him when he did so. He writes about saving captured coalition pilots from certain death at the hands of one of Saddam’s bloodthirsty sons, Qusay, who wanted to kill them. He tells of how he convinced Saddam that attacking Israel with chemical weapons at the time of the first Gulf War was folly that would bring nuclear holocaust to the Middle East.
But most significantly, Sada’s book reveals information that should blow the lid off the whole debate over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Remember those WMDs that supposedly don’t exist? Well, according to the general, they not only did exist but still do – in Syria.
Excerpts from chapter ten:
“Saddam had ordered our weapons teams to hide the WMDs in places no military commander or United Nations weapons inspector would expect to find them. So they hid them in schools, private homes, banks, business offices, and even on trucks that were kept constantly moving back and forth from one end of the country to the other. And then fate stepped in.
”On June 4, 2002, a three-mile-long irrigation dam, which had been drawing water from the Orontes River in the northwestern district of Zeyzoun, Syria, collapsed, inundating three small villages and destroying scores of homes.
“…When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq, Saddam knew what he would do. For him, the disaster in Syria was a gift, and there, posing as shipments of supplies and equipment sent from Iraq to aid the relief effort, were Iraq’s WMDs.
”…Eventually there were fifty-six sorties. Commercial 747s and 727s moved these things out of the country…Instead of using military vehicles or aircraft which would have been apprehended and searched by coalition forces, Saddam’s agents had used the civilian airlines.
“…In addition to the shipments that went by air, there were also truckloads of weapons, chemicals, and other supplies that were taken into Syria at that time…Saddam was convinced that commercial trucks would pass right through security checkpoints on the borders without raising alarms, and they did, without drawing the attention of American and international satellite observers.”
Gen. Sada says that a plot to kill thousands of people in Amman, Jordan, using these same weapons, has since been foiled, thus indicating that they have fallen into the hands of al-Qaida.
Watch for the national media to begin their reluctant coverage of this story. Fox News and talk radio will force them to cover it. And since Sada’s documentation is reportedly being examined by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., they can’t ignore it forever. Or can they?
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has worked as a political speechwriter, communications consultant and advisor to conservative Republican candidates and elected officials, as well as public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including GOPUSA (www.gopusa.com), where he is a senior writer and state editor.
Insider’s Book Should Blow Lid Off WMD Debate By Doug Patton February 13, 2006
On Sunday morning, February 12, 2006, in a church in Bellevue, Nebraska, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was a witness to history. There, at the sparsely attended 8:30 service, stood Gen. Georges Sada, a retired Iraqi general from Saddam Hussein’s air force. As he shared his personal testimony, I found myself wondering how long the so-called mainstream media could ignore the message he was imparting.
Sada is a member of the board of directors of World Compassion, headed by Dr. Terry Law, an Oklahoma minister who accompanied the general on Sunday morning. The reasons for Sada’s presence in the church were two-fold: to profess his own Christian faith and to let Americans know that liberating Iraq was the just and right thing to do.
Gen. Sada has just published a book entitled “Saddam’s Secrets.” In it, he describes his experiences as an Iraqi Air Force general and Saddam advisor who frequently told the Iraqi dictator the truth when others would not, and how God protected him when he did so. He writes about saving captured coalition pilots from certain death at the hands of one of Saddam’s bloodthirsty sons, Qusay, who wanted to kill them. He tells of how he convinced Saddam that attacking Israel with chemical weapons at the time of the first Gulf War was folly that would bring nuclear holocaust to the Middle East.
But most significantly, Sada’s book reveals information that should blow the lid off the whole debate over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Remember those WMDs that supposedly don’t exist? Well, according to the general, they not only did exist but still do – in Syria.
Excerpts from chapter ten:
“Saddam had ordered our weapons teams to hide the WMDs in places no military commander or United Nations weapons inspector would expect to find them. So they hid them in schools, private homes, banks, business offices, and even on trucks that were kept constantly moving back and forth from one end of the country to the other. And then fate stepped in.
”On June 4, 2002, a three-mile-long irrigation dam, which had been drawing water from the Orontes River in the northwestern district of Zeyzoun, Syria, collapsed, inundating three small villages and destroying scores of homes.
“…When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq, Saddam knew what he would do. For him, the disaster in Syria was a gift, and there, posing as shipments of supplies and equipment sent from Iraq to aid the relief effort, were Iraq’s WMDs.
”…Eventually there were fifty-six sorties. Commercial 747s and 727s moved these things out of the country…Instead of using military vehicles or aircraft which would have been apprehended and searched by coalition forces, Saddam’s agents had used the civilian airlines.
“…In addition to the shipments that went by air, there were also truckloads of weapons, chemicals, and other supplies that were taken into Syria at that time…Saddam was convinced that commercial trucks would pass right through security checkpoints on the borders without raising alarms, and they did, without drawing the attention of American and international satellite observers.”
Gen. Sada says that a plot to kill thousands of people in Amman, Jordan, using these same weapons, has since been foiled, thus indicating that they have fallen into the hands of al-Qaida.
Watch for the national media to begin their reluctant coverage of this story. Fox News and talk radio will force them to cover it. And since Sada’s documentation is reportedly being examined by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., they can’t ignore it forever. Or can they?
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has worked as a political speechwriter, communications consultant and advisor to conservative Republican candidates and elected officials, as well as public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including GOPUSA (www.gopusa.com), where he is a senior writer and state editor.
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