Posted on 09/19/2007 7:04:20 AM PDT by Marie
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in Jane's Defence Weekly, which reported 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 Syrians 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 globalsecurity.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. Globalsecurity.org cites the country as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East.
Considering the small community that chemical weapons experts tend to be, this act may have just about lobotomized both Iran and Syria in one “boom”
“Ahmeed - hold my goat milk” Alert...
I am sure I will learn more about this from Brian Williams and Katie Couric tonight.
Do I really need a sarc tag?
Iran and Syria were collaborating on the development of the ‘Acme el-Coyote Chemical Warhead System’ and as with all Acme products, it went ‘KA-BOOM’ when least expected.
Looks good on ‘em.
Wonder how this ties in with the reports of WMD movement from Iraq to Syria while Ted Kennedy was urging us to stop the months long “rush to war”.
As I remember it was a very few media outlets that carried that news.
Wonder, too, if it really was an accident, or maybe it was a case of some outside help with the engineering of the design.
Since they have no nuke program, I guess those deaths were faked. Allah be praised.
WMD's pose a significant terrorist threat (bio / chem especially).
If Syria and Iran keep up their crap and detonate a WMD against Israel or the US in Iraq, then 12K - 20K lb. MOAB's will reign on their countrymen at the least after their air defenses are wrecked.
Gee! that is really too bad.
I am sure that it was a Baby Milk Factory that was attacked illegally by that bastard George McChimpy Bush!!!
A good start.....
I wonder what the U.S. Democrat socialist liberal explanation of this will be? Or will they just ignore the story? I’m sure it won’t show up on any of our major leftist media sources.
My thoughts too -
maybe without Chemical Ali and the Iraq expertise, these guys didn’t know what they were doing - and poof!
When your weapons program is guided by “imshallah,’ (as God wills it) instead of practical things like real science and safety, well...
too bad for you, Abdul! Good for us and Israel!
“No Ahmed, not the red wire!!!”
Oh, you guys are cracking me up this morning! LMAO!
So there were no WMDs in Iraq, but as it turns out Syria suddenly has some.
Wonder how that could be...
Too bad Assodd wasn’t at this little demonstration.
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