World Threats

A great article by The Washington Times provides more detail about the Russian role in evacuating Saddam’s WMDs. Gertz goes over the claims of Dr. John Shaw, but also says that a second defense official revealed that Iraq paid Russia to provide special forces to provide security for the arms provided by Russia and to conduct counter-intelligence to [...]

A high-level Pentagon official, Dr. Jack Shaw, deputy undersecretary of defense and head of the International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate says that Russian units were in Iraq before OIF began and helped orchestrate the collection of munitions, including WMD, and transport them into Syria. Shaw said that the Russians also moved high-powered conventional explosives [...]