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Uncle Samuel <Stars@Stripes.USA> wrote in message news:<Biagd.3503385$ic1.358299@news.easynews.com>...
> Matt Telles wrote:
> 
> http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041028-122637-6257r.htm
> 
> Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms
> 
> By Bill Gertz
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> 
> 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.

Yes, that has a lot to do with calling the Army stupid. Thank you for
that completely idiotic aside.

Matt