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ISRAEL'S CoS: IRAQI WMD COULD BE IN SYRIA

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's military leader asserted that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction might have been sent to neighboring Syria.

Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon explained the failure of the U.S.-led coalition to find WMD in Iraq by saying Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons might have been transferred to Syria. Ya'alon said Syria might have then concealed the WMD.

"Perhaps they were transferred to a neighboring country, such as Syria," Ya'alon told the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot on Monday. "We very clearly saw that something crossed into Syria."

It was the first time a high-level Israeli military official asserted that Iraqi WMD could have been transferred to Syria. Last year, a similar assertion was issued by the head of the U.S. National System for Geospatial-Intelligence, Lt. Gen. James Clapper.

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