Oh, THERE They Are! [UPDATED]

Just a bit of a note, nothing all that important really...Saddam's WMDs have been found.

New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all.

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In virtually every case - chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles - the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors.

The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), whose intelligence analysts are managed by Charles Duelfer, a former State Department official and deputy chief of the U.N.-led arms-inspection teams, has found "hundreds of cases of activities that were prohibited" under U.N. Security Council resolutions, a senior administration official tells Insight.

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"Saddam Hussein's prohibited missile programs are as close to a slam dunk as you will ever find for violating United Nations resolutions," the first official said. Both senior administration officials spoke to Insight on condition that neither their name nor their agency be identified, but their accounts of what the United States has found in Iraq coincided in every major area.

But of course, we all know that, regardless of the facts, no WMDs will really be found until the New York Times blares the news on their front page...or maybe page 24A?

Clock's ticking, guys...

Oh, and on a related note, you should read the reporter's bio.

[First noted at Instapundit and Power Line. -- Ed.]

The African country of Sudan (which the UN has said may be the home of the latest attempt at genocide - and notice that the fact that the persecuted Africans are Christian seems to escape CNN) has apparently decided to tell Syria to take its toys and go home.

Sudan has ordered the removal of Syrian missiles and weapons of mass destruction out of the African country.

Arab diplomatic and Sudanese government sources said the regime of Sudanese President Omar Bashir has ordered that Syria remove its Scud C and Scud D medium-range ballistic missiles as well as components for chemical weapons stored in warehouses in Khartoum. The sources said the Sudanese demand was issued after the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry confirmed a report published earlier this month that Syria has been secretly flying Scud-class missiles and WMD components to Khartoum.

The sources said the Bashir regime has been alarmed over the prospect that the United States would discover the Syrian arsenal and conclude that Damascus and Khartoum were cooperating in the area of missiles and WMD. They said this would have delayed or dashed U.S. plans to lift sanctions from Sudan.

A U.S. official confirmed the Syrian missile shipments to Sudan, saying they were meant for use against rebels in the south.

Now how exactly did Syria get these weapons and components in the first place? They don't have the capacity to create this stuff, so they have to either purchase it, or import it. And what neighbor was recently looking to move large quantities of WMD at better than wholesale prices?
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