A top Bush administration official, John Bolton, is planning to testify today before Congress that Syria has an ambitious program to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. New York Times reporter Judith Miller obtained a draft of Bolton’s statements in which he also suggests that Syria is partly responsible for the ongoing attacks of U.S. troops in Iraq because, he claims, Syria has failed to stop militants from entering and fighting in Iraq. Bolton is also expected to testify that Syria “a stockpile of the nerve agent sarin that can be delivered by aircraft or ballistic missiles, and has engaged in the research and development of more toxic and persistent nerve agents such as VX.
U.S. Official: Syria Developing WMDs & Backing Iraq Resistance
HeadlineSep 16, 2003