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The Iraq - Syria Connection
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s most exclusive sources tie the killing firmly to Iraq. Those sources have found out that Stoffel‘s complaints referred specifically to the vanished $300 m. We also traced the destination of the transferred cash to the Al Madina bank in Beirut.
This discovery has cast the entire conspiracy in a new, explosive direction in view of the history of that bank which we have dredged up.
In January 2003, two months before the Iraq war, the powerful Syrian security chief General Ghazi Kenaan who has since been appointed interior minister, sent the head of Lebanese security services General Jamil Sayyad over to Baghdad on a mission to advise Saddam to transfer the national reserve and his personal fortune to the al Madina Bank. The Iraqi ruler consented. Since his overthrow, ex-Baath loyalists have been drawing on funds from that bank to sustain the guerrilla war against US forces in Iraq.
