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Saddam Agents on Syria Border Helped Move Banned Materials

(Washington Times) Rowan Scarborough- Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators from the Iraq Survey Group have discovered, fueling speculation that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before March 2003. After border inspectors were sent away, there was a movement of trucks in and out of Syria suspected of carrying materials banned by UN sanctions. There is evidence of unusually heavy truck traffic into Syria in the days before the U.S.-led invasion. The U.S. spotted the truck traffic via satellite imagery before the war.
2004-08-17 00:00:00
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