[Steve_Seattle]

"Syria is one of the first countries helping out with relief efforts? That is interesting!"

Chances are they are participating in more than "relief efforts." My guess is that they are there for damage control and recovery of incriminating evidence, to make sure that evidence - physical or otherwise - as to what really caused the explosion doesn't get out.

[heleny]

for damage control and recovery of incriminating evidence

Exactly.

Maybe now they even get to study the effects/results of whatever experimental explosive they might have had.