Need help with link....WMDs moved to Syria

[recoveringrepublican]

I'm trying to find the statement from the white house saying that even they don't believe there was a high probability of WMDs being moved to Syria. Any help would be appreciated.

[smoogatz]

1. Google on "Duelfer Report"

You should find all the info you need.

[recoveringrepublican]

2. Thanks very much! nt

[jayfish]

3. The White House Has Never,...

to my knowledge, come out and said they were not moved. Here is a start though.

U.S. found no evidence WMD moved from Iraq

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Whether Saddam Hussein moved the WMD — deadly chemical, biological or radiological arms — is one of the unresolved issues that the final U.S. intelligence report on Iraq’s programs is expected to address next month.

But intelligence and congressional officials say they have not seen any information — never “a piece,” said one — indicating that WMD or significant amounts of components and equipment were transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, Jordan or elsewhere.
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Jay

[librechik]

4. The date you want is January 13, 2005

that's when the WH pulled the last of the investigators out.

While Syria was not directly addressed, they admitted that Iraq had to WMDs. There was no infrastructure to make them. Therefore none were moved to Syria. They weren't there to be moved.

US news outlets were exceedingly silent on this important decision. However, the Montreal Gazette had something.
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"The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Charles Duelfer, issued a report last October that said Saddam was trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction at the time of the U.S. invasion, but that Iran, with which it had fought a war - and not the United States - was his target.

But Duelfer also found the Iraqi dictator's capability of producing banned weapons had diminished during more than a decade of international sanctions. "We were almost all wrong," Duelfer said last year.

Despite the findings, senior administrators such as Cheney continued to hold out the possibility weapons might still be found. There has been speculation weapons were surreptitiously moved to Syria.

Bush has now accepted Duelfer's findings "that the weapons that we all believed were there, based on the intelligence, were not there," McClellan said. "

sorry, can't give you a link, go to the Montreal Gazette sight and maybe you can find it there.

Sad, huh?