WMDs in Syria?

In early September, the Israelis secretly took out Syria’s nuclear project, which was contracted with North Korea and affirmed by that country’s loudest objection. Israel’s swift and evidently successful strike was tacitly allowed by the U.S. and most of the international community (who viewed it) as buying time against nuclear proliferation and an alert to nuclear-inclined nations that dangerous nuclear capability development will not be tolerated.

Syria borders Israel and is a conduit for Hezbollah supplies into Lebanon from Iran. According to a former Iraqi Christian general, it is also host to WMDs flown out of Iraq in the waning days of Saddam Hussein’s regime. In his book Saddam’s Secrets (Integrity Publishers, Brentwood, TN 2006), Georges Sada writes, "…I know the names of some of those who were involved in smuggling WMDs out of Iraq in 2002 and 2003. I know the names of officers of the front company, SES, who received the weapons from Saddam. I know how and when they were transported and shipped out of Iraq. And I know how many aircraft were actually used and what types of airplanes they were, as well as a number of other facts of this nature." (page 252)

Under the guise of aid to Syria when an irrigation dam collapsed, "Eventually there were fifty-six sorties. Commercial 747s and 727s moved these things out of the country…. Instead of using military vehicles or aircraft which would have been apprehended and searched by coalition forces, Sadddam had used the civilian airlines." (pg. 259)

Support for Israel is a serious Biblical mandate outlined in Genesis 12:3. "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you shall all the families of the earth shall be blessed." It is also support for our most dependable ally in the Middle East and appears to have bought precious time for the entire world in defusing Syria’s nuclear development and keeping Iraq’s loaned storehouse of WMDs out of service.

David Virkler