October Surprise – Part 3

(via Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin has a great post (Moscow and The Missing Cache) where she introduces Bill Gertz’s latest Washington Times article. Article excerpts:

Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.

John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.

"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units." (Read here)

I believe this further magnifies Mr. Kerry and the democrats jumping the gun in desperation without having the facts. Of course, their inability to get all the facts before making accusations will not be mentioned in the MSM since President Bush is held to a higher standard; which is understandable since he continually demonstrates meeting higher standards. Michelle goes into further detail and has more great links (Read here)