Here’s an unofficial translation of a Project Harmony document (thank you Powerline) on the flow of truck traffic from Iraq into Syria prior to the March 2003 invasion. No one knows with any certainty what was in the trucks, but it’s been pretty well established that there was a heavy traffic flow from Iraq into Syria before and immediately after the invasion commenced. On page 84 of his book, Fiasco, Tom Ricks notes that:
Baathists and intelligence officials [were able] to flee to the sanctuary of Syria, taking money, weapons, and records with them with which to establish a safe headquarters for the insurgency that would emerge that summer. Some of this movement occurred before the war began, when, according to retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, the head of the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency, satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria.
On October 28, 2003, Agence France Presse reported:
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