Bill Gertz is reporting in Thursday's Washington Post that "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.... 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 full article is here, though at the time of this posting, Drudge's linking to it has temporarily crashed the Washington Times server.
Remember, John Kerry has now made the missing weapons a centerpiece of his final-week attack on Bush--going so far as to make a TV ad about the issue! The NYT rushed the story as a last minute October Surprise/Attack. CBS was sitting on the story until election eve. Andrew Sullivan called it "exhibit A" in the "criminal negligence" of this Adminstration.
Oh well. Maybe they can dig up something else instead.
(Hat tip: JK at halfwayaway.blogspot.com)
