Archive for April, 2003

Iraqi Scientist Claims WMD Went to Syria, Iraq Worked With Al-Qaeda

Judith Miller reports in The New York Times that an Iraqi scientist, who claimed to have worked on chemical weapons for over a decade, told an MET Alpha unit that Iraq destroyed chemical and biological weapons material as war became imminent. The unit told Miller they thought he was credible. The scientist said that four [...]

U.S. Sees Iraqi Missile Launcher in Syria

Mirrored here is an article from Middle East Newsline. It is titled “US Spots Missile Launcher in W. Iraq,” and is dated April 6, 2003. It is copied below, because it’s simply too important to be lost: WASHINGTON [MENL] — The United States has spotted what appeared to be an Iraqi missile launcher near the Syrian [...]

Russian Military Rushes To Help Saddam

Stewart Sogel writes in Newsmax.com that a Russian diplomat in New York with ties to the military confirmed to him that retired Soviet/Russian military officers were in Iraq helping Saddam Hussein, and that he knew their identities. These advisors told the Iraqis not to engage in open combat with Coalition forces (deploying no more than 1,000 [...]

Former Soviet Generals in Iraq Before War Began

Gazeta.ruby Alexander Kornilov entitled, “We Didn’t Fly to Baghdad to Drink Coffee.” The paper published photos, taken less than 10 days before OIF began, of two former Soviet generals, Vladimir Achalov and Igor Maltsev, receiving awards from the Iraqi Defense Minister. Achalov was a Soviet deputy defense minister and former commander of paratroopers and commander of Soviet [...]

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