IRAQ'S WMDs were flown to Syria in the run-up to the war, in 56 trips by two Iraq Airways Boeings that had their passenger seats removed. It's not the first time that such informations are published; the new thing is who's saying it now: general George Sada, number 2 higherst official in Saddam's air force:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

[...] The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

(via IRIS Blog, with more background)

UPDATE. Right Wing Nuthouse has much more on the background and previous coincident informations (including some tapes that will be unveiled next month), and alerts that Sada's revelation is still based in indirect sources. In From The Cold, the blog of a former intel analyst, also warns about this though because of his previous contact with some of the people involved he says the information is more than plausible.

If this is confirmed sooner or later, I guess it won't change much in the minds of the people who claim the "Bush lied, people died", but we'll have to keep an eye on this anyway.

UPDATE II. More bakground here.