Well if you believe this report, Syria.
U.S. intelligence officials Wednesday released an assessment that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have been transferred to neighboring Syria. The officials, in the first assessment of its kind, said the transfer occurred during the weeks prior to the U.S.-led war against the Saddam Hussein regime. Middle East Newsline reported the U.S. assessment was based on satellite images of convoys of Iraqi trucks that poured into Syria during February and March. U.S. intelligence officials say the trucks contained missiles and WMD components banned by the U.N.'s Security Council.
First off, before any of you email me and say, "What about the Kay Report?!" Let me say this, The Kay Report only proved Saddam Hussein had a clandestine WMD program and not WMD's, while it is very possible (even likely) that Kay will find WMD's in Iraq, he has not yet done so. In all honesty the story that Iraq sent it's WMD's into Syria has been hanging around for quite a few months, it has never risen above the "official rumor" category, until today, so I am going to take this with a pretty large grain of salt. Those trucks referenced in the story could have just easily carried looted art work or money as they could have carried WMD's, in other words there really isn't much proof to substianate that the trucks carried what the intelligence suggests. Until such proof becomes available, ala Assad turning them over or coming clean that yes those trucks did indeed carry what we think they carried, then the hunt for WMD's should (and could) continue in Iraq.
Hat Tip Right Thinking
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