Former chief UN weapons inspector Richard Butler backed US claims that Syria helped conceal Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, saying he saw evidence of this, he told ABC Radio.
The former Australian diplomat said he had seen intelligence when he headed the UN team in Iraq from 1997 until 1999 which seemed to indicate Syria had helped keep Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction hidden.
“I was shown some intelligence information, from overhead imagery and so on, that the Iraqis had moved some containers of stuff across the border into Syria,” Butler was quoted as saying on ABC Radio.
“We had reason to believe that those were containers of chemical weapons and perhaps some other weapons.
Hmm.
UPDATE: Then there’s this:
Intelligence information indicates a top Iraqi nuclear scientist recently spent time in Syria . . . .
The scientist, Jaffar al-Jaffer, left Syria and went to another Middle Eastern country, where he turned himself over to authorities during the past few days, officials said Monday. He was being interviewed by American officials.
I wonder what he’s saying?