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Matt Telles wrote:

> Uncle Samuel <Stars@Stripes.USA> wrote in message news:<Biagd.3503385$ic1.358299@news.easynews.com>...
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>>Matt Telles wrote:
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>>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041028-122637-6257r.htm
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>>Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms
>>
>>By Bill Gertz
>>THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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>>Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and 
>>related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 
>>2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
>>     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.
>>
>>     "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. The others were transportation units."
>>     Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloging the tons of conventional 
>>arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained 
>>reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European 
>>intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi 
>>weapons collaboration.
>>     Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated 
>>from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and 
>>Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.
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> 
> Yes, that has a lot to do with calling the Army stupid.

Well look at it this way, they can't secure what had already been taken 
away...

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