Hi Jon,

As I said I have not read anything about this anywhere, so I do not what reports Charley Noble was referring to, or to whom they were made, or when they were made. For arguements sake, if they were correct, on what grounds could you approach the Syrian Government to investigate the matter? UN sanctions exist that require Iraq to rid itself of WMD in a clearly verifiable way - just trucking them over the border to Syria, so that they can be trucked back at a later date does not fulfil the UN requirement.

Another thing that has occured to me - How many U2 surveillance flights actually took place, or were there any?

With regard to the possibility of Saddam's WMD being in Syria, I would imagine that apart from the Syrian Government saying that they are there, the best information will come from Iraqi's who actually took part in the removal, or Mossad (their intelligence network inside Syria has normally been fairly good in the past).