[TigerLikesRooster]

A really interesting development on this story.

[no more apples]

Thanks for the post.

[RetiredArmy]

Well, if the WMD thing is true, then just just blew up and burned all the evidence!

[nuconvert]

Let's not forget who the Syrians' best friend is......Iran.
And the Iranian regime has been talking with N.Korea about continuing their uranium enrichment project in N.Korea. A friendly joint effort.

[Flint]

Our President strikes again. I have no doubt that one of our Sneaky Petes made this happen.

[sheik yerbouty]

Shi'ite happened?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, very interesting!

[BurbankKarl]

I screamed up and down this was sabotage...sheesh

[Grampa Dave]

Another great find by you.

[heleny]

"In Ryongchon Blast, Syrian engineers were killed and wounded. A wagon carrying a large cargo had a particularly heavy damage, revealed on 6th (of May, 2004) by a military news source who has great expertise on Korean matters." According to the source, "the content of the cargo is unknown. However, after the accident, N. Korean military personnels in protective suits arrived at the scene, and recovered the remains of the destroyed wagon. We strongly suspect that the accident occurred while transporting a top-secret cargo between N. Korea and Syria."
...
Syrian casualties went home via a Syrian transport plane on May 1st, which was there to pick up the cargo. All personnels involved in the transport (of Syrians), both Syrians and N. Koreans, were again wearing protective suits.

I guess the cargo wasn't oil and liquified petroleum as initially suggested in the news but discounted as very unlikely by many smart freepers!
(Early reports in various threads, including: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1122467/posts)

[GEC]

We need to invade both countries...soon.

[BigSkyFreeper]

This would explain the secrecy of N. Korea, going to great lengths to cut their phone lines shortly after the disaster.

[Walkingfeather]

smells like the mossad boys doing the voodoo they do SO WELL!

[Boot Hill]

• "The behaviors of N. Korea and Syria showed that this cargo is of utmost secret nature, which they never want to disclose."

Good post in your usual tradition, TLR. I particularly appreciated the translation warning at the top.

As you recall, several of us saw this development coming a mile away, when the North Koreans (with the complicity of the UN) tried to float the ridiculous story that this was just an accidental explosion caused by the collision of a railway car filled with ammonium nitrate with another railway car carrying fuel oil. That ruse was easy to dissect and destroy.

Good chance that this was a covert operation, but unfortunately, there is even a better chance that this was just another example of Murphy's Law in action. (That and relying on "Terrorism for Dummies" for their operations manual!)

--Boot Hill

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn.

[First_Salute]

As stated, it was a training accident.

[PA Engineer]

Interesting. BTTT.

[hershey]

Yup, the whole story smelled right from the start. The fluctuating victim numbers, the vague details of how it happened, etc.. Big time coverup. Special suits? Syria? My, my, maybe it's time for a couple of MOABs to fall from a very big US plane right on Syria's presidential palaces and nuclear facilities. After all, we have a 'beleagured' human rights record and have no moral legs left to stand on in this world...forever. Why not do what we did to that Chinese embassy a few years back? Drop a bomb on it accidentally.

[freeangel]

Good news bump!

[Holden Magroin]

We ought to invade Syria and take back the Crac des Chevaliers.

[FReepaholic]

Here's an interesting image:

Now, were the holes in the large building on the left made by falling debris (rail cars) or explosions???