Georges Sada
Georges Hormiz Sada | |
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| Born | 1940 |
| Allegiance |  Iraq |
| Service/ | Iraqi Air Force |
| Years of service | 1958-1986, 1990-1991 (alleged) |
| Other work | Author |
General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ; born 1939) is an Iraqi of ethnic Assyrian descent, an author, and self-claimed retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force.
Background and WMD theory[edit]
During some period of the tenure of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Sada served as a spokesperson for Allawi.[1][2] In August 2004, as a spokesperson, Sada announced a bill that reinstated the death penalty in Iraq for murderers and anyone threatening national security.[3]
Sada appeared on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, where he discussed his book and reported that other pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. After the release of his book, Sada was interviewed by Fox News, and he stated:
"Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people...I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. Iraq had some projects for nuclear weapons but it was destroyed in 1981".
When asked during his interview with Fox News if there was any chance that there were nuclear weapons or on their way to nuclear weapons when USA invaded, he said "Not in Iraq". Sada made a guest appearance on The Daily Show on March 21, 2006 to promote Saddam's Secrets. His (Sada's) claims, though, tend to contradict the findings of the Duelfer Report, which "judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place," though analysts[who?] were unable to rule out the possibility.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Sada was born in 1939, in Northern Iraq. Sada attended the Assyrian Church of the East when he was a child, before he eventually became a born-again Christian. He serves as the Senior Warden of the St. Georges Anglican Church and as the President of the National Presbyterian Church, both in Baghdad. The former President of the Evangelical Churches of Iraq, Sada is also chairman of the Assembly of Iraqi Evangelical Presbyterian Churches. He has been and still is presently active in advocating that Iraq was historically Assyrian and Christian in nature, and not Arab and Muslim.[citation needed]
Sada was awarded the International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation by Coventry Cathedral in 2003 for his work with the International Centre for Reconciliation.[4][unreliable source]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sunford, Melissa (July 5, 2004). "Blast Leaves 2 Bystanders Dead in Baquba as Iraqi Troops Kill Would-Be Car Bomber". New York Times. p. A8.
- ↑ "Iraq to pardon killers of coalition soldiers". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Jul 12, 2004.
- ↑ "Death penalty to be reinstated in Iraq". Aljazeera. August 8, 2004. Archived from the original on May 26, 2006.
- ↑ "Cathedral honours two Iraqis". Coventry News. June 18, 2003.
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