SUDAN ORDERS SYRIAN WMD OUT OF COUNTRY

Middle East News Letter ^ | 4/22/04

[Valin]

SUDAN ORDERS SYRIAN WMD OUT OF COUNTRY

LONDON [MENL] -- Sudan has ordered the removal of Syrian missiles and weapons of mass destruction out of the African country.

Arab diplomatic and Sudanese government sources said the regime of Sudanese President Omar Bashir has ordered that Syria remove its Scud C and Scud D medium-range ballistic missiles as well as components for chemical weapons stored in warehouses in Khartoum. The sources said the Sudanese demand was issued after the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry confirmed a report published earlier this month that Syria has been secretly flying Scud-class missiles and WMD components to Khartoum.

The sources said the Bashir regime has been alarmed over the prospect that the United States would discover the Syrian arsenal and conclude that Damascus and Khartoum were cooperating in the area of missiles and WMD. They said this would have delayed or dashed U.S. plans to lift sanctions from Sudan.

A U.S. official confirmed the Syrian missile shipments to Sudan, saying they were meant for use against rebels in the south. But the official said the U.S. intelligence community has not determined that Syria sent WMD systems to Khartoum.

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If anyone knows where I could get data on fatalities by religion, I'd be interested.

[dalebert]

This is getting interesting.

[dalebert]

I thought CNN reported it earlier today. I read it last week.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee.

I thought only Iraq had WMD's.

(No, wait. Iraq DIDN'T have WMD's because everybody decided they got rid of them .. into Syria. )

But then Syria couldn't have WMD's because we never found them there .... No wait. We never looked in Syria because we never found any WMD's in Syria, so we couldn't look in Syria ....

Anyway, forget it.

Your friendly, neighborhood UN has just said that there are no WMD's in Iraq.

Any more.