By Bill Gertz
However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. 'The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict,' Mr. Shaw said.
The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country.

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.

... 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.


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