Posted on 09/18/2007 11:56:25 AM PDT by mojito
Edited on 09/19/2007 5:42:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.
According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas.
Reports of the accident were circulated at the time, however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection.
The report comes on the heels of criticism leveled by the Syrains at the United States, accusing it of spreading "false" claims of Syrian nuclear activity and cooperation with North Korea to excuse an alleged Israeli air incursion over the country this month.
According to Global Security.org, Syria is not a signatory of either the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), - an international agreement banning the production, stockpiling or use of chemical weapons, or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Syria began developing chemical weapons in 1973, just before the Yom Kipper War. Global Security.org cites the country as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East.
Probably not. The Syrian and Iranian’s can screw things up by themselves. LOL
Accurate damage assessment of the Syrian “Weapons Depot” is essential in the domestic & international war of words.
Anybody reviewed subscriber site: http://www.stratfor.com/ ?
Which one? Both? LOL
The cooperation between Saddam & Syria is a matter of history. Likewise the use of Iraqi oil to pursue Iraqi aims with the Syrian government.
This is bogus. We all know there were NO WMD’s. /sarc
2008 election...
With respect to the each other, of course they were rivals. They were competing for regional dominance and to be the standard bearer of a shared ideology.
With respect to the west, they were allies. Whatever rivalry the two countries may have had was nothing compared to existential threat they saw (see) in the United States.
Same with Syria and Iraq... or Russia and Iraq, or China and Iran, or North Korea and Syria, or imperial Japan and Nazi Germany for that matter. America is everybody's worst enemy. And the enemy of your enemy is your friend. What was it that brought the Baathist socialists in Syria and the Iranian Shia into their currently alliance, other than a mutual hatred of the west?
The reality of the situation is, both the Iraqi Baathists and the Syrian Baathists stood to benefit greatly from embarassing the US on the matter of WMD. Of course they worked together toward that end.
If it was in another publication in the area I might doubt it.
I wonder if it was a cache of chemical WMD that the Israelis took out? It would be nice to think so.
It’s a topsy turvy world, eh?
Yup.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls,
Its a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola.
Lo-lo-lo-lo, Lola
~The Kinks
Why, they'll say that Saddam was "innocent" all along and Bush lied in order to invade Iraq and steal their oil for Halliburton instead of invading Iran and stealing THEIR oil while letting Saddam have it [Iran].
The rhetoric for THAT one was prepared right after the SOTU naming Iran as part of the Axis of evil: "The country has long considered Al Qaida an enemy, and polls show that the Iranian public is among the most pro-Western of any country in the Middle East."
Americans are plenty stupid enough to think the Iranian government is representative of the Iranian people, and that Iranian-backed terrorist groups are innocent victims of American Imperialism and would be really nice to us if we were nicer to them.
What a weak chin he has.
There appears to be a big chill or absence of facts here. Given the possiblity a major NBC Depot was “flatten” by IAF F-15s in Syria; echos in a silent scream.
The Mideast is not Russia or China and you compare them at your own risk. Iraq and Syria were not enemies. They had a lot of higher level interaction. There WAS an illegal oil pipeline running millios of barrels or oil into Syria for years...UN inspectors somehow missed that.
Carolyn
Mitch Rapp bump (truth is stranger than fiction)
Mitch Rapp indeed. Lotsa action and nobody’s talkin’
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