MJ Martin (30 Apr 2005)
"General Franks:  EVIDENCE SHOWED WMD TRANSFER"


Taken from Newsmax.com

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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Friday, April 29, 2005 10:06 a.m. EDT

Gen. Franks: Evidence Showed WMD Transfer

Retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who commanded the successful U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, said Thursday that he saw persuasive evidence that Saddam Hussein had transferred his weapons of mass destruction to Syria.

"We saw all kinds of suspicious activity which, all of us could have speculated, meant for certain that weapons were being moved into Syria," the top military man told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter.

Gen. Franks added that while he "never saw anything that was absolutely convincing, the possibility remains" that Saddam's WMDs were removed.

Franks was responding to claims by his second in command, retired Gen. Michael DeLong, who told Malzberg last year:

"Two days before the war, on March 17 [2003], we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and technical intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 [most wanted] Iraqis, going to Syria."

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