Posted on 11/11/2003 9:13:40 PM PST by yonif
DAMASCUS [MENL] -- Syria has completed chemical warheads for its arsenal of Scud-based missiles.
U.S. officials said Syria, with help from North Korea, has succeeded in designing and installing CW warheads for the Scud B, Scud C and Scud D missiles. This provides Syria with warheads that can reach distances from 250 to nearly 700 kilometers.
The chemical agent deployed in the CW warheads is sarin, regarded as the most toxic of material. Syria has also been developing more toxic agents such as VX.
"Since the 1970s, Syria has pursued what is now one of the most advanced Arab state chemical weapons capabilities," Undersecretary of State John Bolton said on Oct. 30. "It has 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."
US Army Scud
"WITH ASSISTANCE from North Korea, Syria has been developing an extended range Scud ballistic missile. Aiming for a range of 435 miles (700km) - which would put Ankara, Turkey, in range - the missile trades range for payload weight and degraded accuracy. A test firing undertaken in September 2000 was observed to travel down-range for 373 miles (600km).
Because of the missile's smaller warhead (approximately 7728821b [350-400kgl), and poor accuracy, it is believed that a chemical warfare warhead (either Sarin or VX nerve gas) is being developed as the payload.
Syria is not yet thought to have acquired the ability to produce such a warhead for its existing Scud-C fleet or for the newer variant, which Israeli sources are labeling Scud-D.
North Korean assistance previously helped Syria gain the capability to manufacture complete Scud missiles, and the ability to increase the range of existing missiles from the standard 186 miles (300km) of the Scud-B to the 311 miles (500km) range of the Scud-C."
(source: AFM, December, 2000)
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news001/afm178.htm
And there's going to be no UN "resolution" bullsh/t this time.
Could happen before Christmas.
Yes, one fifth of the Democrat party would make an alliance with any country in the Axis of Evil to defeat President Bush. He has known what he is talking about for some time.
On November 3, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak paid a short visit to Damascus for an urgent conversation with Bashar Assad. With him was his senior adviser, Osama el-Baz.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence and Middle Eastern sources reveal that Mubarak carried a message of unprecedented harshness from Washington. Nothing like it had been conveyed to any regional leader since Saddam Hussein was put on notice of the fate awaiting him if the Americans invaded Iraq. Bashar was warned that his actions in Iraq and Palestine may expose Syria to the peril of becoming the “Cambodia” of the Iraq War – a reference to the secret 1973 air blitz the Nixon administration loosed against Cambodia and Laos.
When the Syrian president made no reply, Mubarak cautioned him not to expect Egypt or anyone else in the Arab world to come to his aid, any more than a savior rushed to help Saddam Hussein or the Palestinians. Assad remarked that many of the guerrillas and terrorists entering Iraq came from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but Mubarak pointed out that at least half still come in from Syria.
The Egyptian leader then criticized Assad for the free rein he grants Hizballah, allowing the Lebanese extremists to publish their newspapers in Syria and their clerics to teach in Syrian religious schools. He also rebuked the Syrian ruler for letting opposition factions of his own regime run off with national policy.
TOWNHALL.com: "PROMISE, PROGRESS AND SETBACKS ON THE WAR WITH JIHADISTAN" -Column by Mark Alexander (COLUMN SNIPPET: "There are additional intelligence reports this week supporting previous evidence The Federalist reported in November of '02 that Iraq shipped some of its biological and nuclear WMD stores to Syria and the Bekaa Valley. This comes on top of last week's assessment from Israel's Mossad that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad allowed Saddam's primitive nukes (possibly with cores for three) to transit through Syria to a protected site in Lebanon's heavily fortified Bekaa Valley.") (September 22, 2003) (Read More...)
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