Obama's designee for Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, earlier intimated that he believed Saddam Hussein had shipped his weapons to Syria in advance of the invasion of Iraq. It was anticipated this would create problems for his confirmation.Interestingly, Ha'aretz has revived the issue of the shipments  as Pajamas Media reports:Ha'aretz has revived the mystery surrounding the inability to find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq, the most commonly cited justification for Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the most embarrassing episodes for the United States. Satellite photos of a suspicious site in Syria are providing new support for the reporting of a Syrian journalist who briefly rocked the world with his reporting that Iraq's WMD had been sent to three sites in Syria just before the invasion commenced.The newspaper reveals that a 200 square-kilometer area in northwestern Syria has been photographed by satellites at the request of...(Read Full Post)