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WHERE DID THE WMD GO?

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 26, 2006 01:10 PM

Ira Stoll at the New York Sun has the story of the day that the rest of the MSM won’t be covering. Intro:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein’s air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, “Saddam’s Secrets,” released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

“There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,” Mr. Sada said. “I am confident they were taken over.”

Mr. Sada’s comments come just more than a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”

There’s a lot of excellent analysis of the story, its weaknesses and strengths, and its implications on the right side of the blogosphere.

Start with Rick Moran, who has extensive commentary and round-up.

Scott Johnson at Power Line is right:

This is one issue on which hearsay and character witnesses won’t cut it. We need what Othello referred to as “the ocular proof.” Let’s hope that Sada’s scheduled meetings next week with Senators Sessions and Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee result in further investigation of his claims.

Mac Johnson says Jay Rockefeller’s in trouble.

Bryan Preston:

Just a thought here, thinking strategically. When you intend to invade a country because it possesses WMD, don’t give that country a year of really really obvious indications that you’re going to invade. Like, just to throw something out there, going to the useless, feckless, counter-productive UN and trying for a solid year to get it off its keister and support your invasion. A year is more than enough time to move massive stockpiles a few hundred miles across a friendly border. Hopefully we’ve learned this lesson and will apply it to, again just to throw an idea out there, stopping Iran’s nuclear program.


Mark in Mexico
: Who is Sada and why should we care?

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