Ex-Official: Russia Moved Saddam's WMD
A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam
Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of
Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein
"cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the
United States from discovering them.
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from
the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday
at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va.
(www.intelligencesummit.org).
"They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of
uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and
eradicate any evidence of its existence," he said.