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Syrian blast was chemical warhead glitch-magazine (Update)
Reuters ^ | 9/19/2007 | unattributed

Posted on 09/19/2007 12:06:09 PM PDT by mojito

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To: DoughtyOne
There’s one word missing from this article. Anyone know what it is?

MOSSAD............

21 posted on 09/19/2007 12:35:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: Abathar

“As a result of the explosion on July 26, Jane’s said an Iranian-Syrian programme to arm short-range ballistic missiles with chemical warheads had been aborted.”
Yeah, Right. Perhaps only at that one site...


Nah, just arming that one missle was aborted! :)


22 posted on 09/19/2007 12:37:10 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists inside and outside our borders, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: mojito

I am inclined to believe it was less Darwin at work but rather something else. Unless of course an alternate spelling for Darwin is M-O-S-S-A-D.


23 posted on 09/19/2007 12:37:45 PM PDT by Polynikes
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To: G L Tirebiter; patton
No. No reason (other than competence of the “borrowed” workers!) to assume otherwise.

A single secret facility, possibly/probably stocked with what weapons were shipped from Iraq while the liberals and the UN fought Bush for a year before he invaded.

At the time they arrived, everything was secret, nothing was planned for loading or re-work or research or launching missiles from the storage site. You’d WANT everything in one place.

Move missile warheads in later. Or get them later, and move them to the nerve gas and mustard gas storage area. Again, logical place to store them. (Maybe not a good place to LOAD the warheads (in the same building or even the same room!) but a good place to keep secrets together.

Find out Saddamn is dead, US is winning, Areal is getting uppity - so you try to load weapons PRIOR to 9/11 anniversary! - and do so with the “small” explosives in a mustard gas warhead that disperse the agent into small droplets. (This size explosive would be much less than 15-20 lbs - like a small device inside the mustard gas tank. After all, you want to blow up the tank, disperse the mustard gas liquid into a cloud of particles, not destroy the mustard gas in a large explosion.

Everybody in the room is killed when the warhead or fuze to the dispersal warhead goes off.

24 posted on 09/19/2007 12:41:22 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: mojito

I’m thinking they never stopped working on arming the chemical warheads. If it was an accident, they’d blame it on Israel. Thinking it was a cover to make Israel think Syria doesn’t have these mounted on missles, so that Israel won’t bomb them like they bombed the nuclear facility.


25 posted on 09/19/2007 12:44:26 PM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: Red Badger

I’ll give you a hint...

WMDs


26 posted on 09/19/2007 12:47:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Sorry Hillderella, but the Hsu fits... and king Lerach would like a call. < wicked witch laughter >)
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27 posted on 09/19/2007 12:47:57 PM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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To: Kozak

Kozak,
I was going to write a beautiful piece on how our enemies get trapped in their own schemes and blah blah blah.... but I think you made the point much more elegantly. Bravo!


28 posted on 09/19/2007 12:56:15 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: Billthedrill
Who the heck arms stuff inside a storage facility, especially for a test?

There are these things called test ranges that are normally used that sort of thing.

29 posted on 09/19/2007 12:57:58 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: gridlock
They were in cuneiform so hard to follow
30 posted on 09/19/2007 1:01:29 PM PDT by colonialhk (Power and Money,the new mantra of the left!)
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To: Calvin Locke

Cant have the sky looking at you.


31 posted on 09/19/2007 1:02:22 PM PDT by colonialhk (Power and Money,the new mantra of the left!)
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To: G L Tirebiter
VX and Sarin drums were marked, Hold for Saddam. they were only there temporarily. ;-D
32 posted on 09/19/2007 1:03:00 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: mojito
It said the agreement, signed in November 2005, had led to the establishment of five pilot facilities in Syria aimed at producing chemical weapon precursors.

One seems to be taken out now. Wonder if Israel is working on the others? They were arming it, but where was it pointed? Israel, Lebanon or Iraq?

33 posted on 09/19/2007 1:11:45 PM PDT by DejaJude
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To: colonialhk

I thought of that, but you mean they’re too cheap to build “facilities” at the range?


34 posted on 09/19/2007 1:13:55 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: colonialhk

Maybe the CIA put a Owners Manual for the Chemical Scud on the Internet, instructing the Weapons Techs to fit the fuse to the missile using a 5 pound sledge...


35 posted on 09/19/2007 1:14:01 PM PDT by gridlock (I do not support Hillary Clinton because I am afraid of strong women)
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To: mojito
Ahh, giving up so soon? This calls for more tests...*snicker*
36 posted on 09/19/2007 1:17:25 PM PDT by Greystoke
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To: green iguana
Ballistic missiles, even short range, should really go further than 0 feet.

Maybe they had the missile pointed down? ;)

37 posted on 09/19/2007 1:28:07 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
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This remarkable piece of information, courtesy of YNET News:

“The scientific arm responsible for Syria’s knowledge and missile production is the Scientific Study Research Center (SSRC). They can be contacted at POB 4470, Damascus. They can also be reached by phone at: 963-11-772-603, or faxed at 963-11-2223771. Yet behind this seemingly innocent name hides the agency in charge of the manufacture of ballistic missiles. The center also handles a great part of the knowledge and acquisition of equipment worldwide.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3451415,00.html


38 posted on 09/19/2007 1:40:23 PM PDT by mojito
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Maybe there’s a sat-photo available?

Yes, tell Chloe to send it to my screen.

39 posted on 09/19/2007 1:41:15 PM PDT by pbear8 (Padre Pio please pray for Tony Snow)
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To: mojito
The sources said dozens of Iranian missile engineers were killed along with the 15 Syrians.

That's a pretty good start.

L

40 posted on 09/19/2007 1:42:18 PM PDT by Lurker ( Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing smallpox to ebola.)
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