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.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say if Syria launches Scuds with Chemical Weapons at Israel, Damascus will indeed by a smoking crater.
I'm hoping it's Bush's fault.
I'm hoping it's Bush's fault.
Allah Fubar!
RO0FL!!!
I love it when a plan comes together.
Why didn’t allah stop the accident? Surely its his will for them to launch this device at nonbelievers.
“This will be the lead story on CNN and NBC tonight????? Right??? Wrong.”
Are you kidding? OJ is back in the news, and Britney Spears. There is no other news according to FOX, CNN and MSNBC.
Seriously, I am so dishusted with FOX News, they have become the National Enquirer of television.
I hope they suffered agonizingly.
Me too, they seem to be obsessed with naked vanessa hudgens in addition to OJ and Brit. I deleted all shortcuts to drudge monday and am happier, fnc is next.
Face-lifting chemicals?
Guess kucinich was safely back home
My thoughts exactly. This is big.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17:1
Notice that the prophecy doesn't specify who (or Who) will make Damascus a ruinous heap.
I would concur that any nation that launches chemical weapons at Israel is going to be utterly destroyed. A few missiles (or hundreds) loaded with chemicals is far too many, esp. for a nation as small as Israel. But to allow it to go unpunished, for Israel to not show in the starkest and most brutal manner possible, that this is utterly unacceptable is to invite further and more devastating attacks, culminating in Israel ceasing to be a nation. That isn't going to happen, not even if the PM happens to be a corrupt, appeasing idiot - even he realizes that survival is survival.
Syria and Iran should be VERY careful. They're probably not too far from a nuclear enema.
Poor V ..... that’s a horrible comparison
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