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On Sunday morning, February 12, 2006, in a church in Bellevue, Nebraska, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was a witness to history. There, at the sparsely attended 8:30 service, stood Gen. Georges Sada, a retired Iraqi general from Saddam Hussein's air force. As he shared his personal testimony, I found myself wondering how long the so-called mainstream media could ignore the message he was imparting.

Sada is a member of the board of directors of World Compassion, headed by Dr. Terry Law, an Oklahoma minister who accompanied the general on Sunday morning. The reasons for Sada's presence in the church were two-fold: to profess his own Christian faith and to let Americans know that liberating Iraq was the just and right thing to do.

Gen. Sada has just published a book entitled "Saddam's Secrets." In it, he describes his experiences as an Iraqi Air Force general and Saddam advisor who frequently told the Iraqi dictator the truth when others would not, and how God protected him when he did so. He writes about saving captured coalition pilots from certain death at the hands of one of Saddam's bloodthirsty sons, Qusay, who wanted to kill them. He tells of how he convinced Saddam that attacking Israel with chemical weapons at the time of the first Gulf War was folly that would bring nuclear holocaust to the Middle East.

But most significantly, Sada's book reveals information that should blow the lid off the whole debate over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Remember those WMDs that supposedly don't exist? Well, according to the general, they not only did exist but still do -- in Syria.

Excerpts from chapter ten:

"Saddam had ordered our weapons teams to hide the WMDs in places no military commander or United Nations weapons inspector would expect to find them. So they hid them in schools, private homes, banks, business offices, and even on trucks that were kept constantly moving back and forth from one end of the country to the other. And then fate stepped in.

"On June 4, 2002, a three-mile-long irrigation dam, which had been drawing water from the Orontes River in the northwestern district of Zeyzoun, Syria, collapsed, inundating three small villages and destroying scores of homes.

"...When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq, Saddam knew what he would do. For him, the disaster in Syria was a gift, and there, posing as shipments of supplies and equipment sent from Iraq to aid the relief effort, were Iraq's WMDs.

"...Eventually there were fifty-six sorties. Commercial 747s and 727s moved these things out of the country...Instead of using military vehicles or aircraft which would have been apprehended and searched by coalition forces, Saddam's agents had used the civilian airlines.

"...In addition to the shipments that went by air, there were also truckloads of weapons, chemicals, and other supplies that were taken into Syria at that time...Saddam was convinced that commercial trucks would pass right through security checkpoints on the borders without raising alarms, and they did, without drawing the attention of American and international satellite observers."

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