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An update of yesterday's story, with a few additional details.
1 posted on 09/19/2007 12:06:13 PM PDT by mojito
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“the explosion occurred at about 4:30 a.m., two hours before sunrise”

Maybe there’s a sat-photo available?


2 posted on 09/19/2007 12:08:33 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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I can’t think of a more deserving group of people to have something like this happen to.

I’m only sorry that so few were killed and injured.


3 posted on 09/19/2007 12:08:51 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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"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...

4 posted on 09/19/2007 12:08:57 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer country.


5 posted on 09/19/2007 12:09:19 PM PDT by inkling (exurbanleague.com)
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6 posted on 09/19/2007 12:12:23 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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an Iranian-Syrian programme to arm short-range ballistic missiles with chemical warheads had been aborted

Ballistic missiles, even short range, should really go further than 0 feet.

7 posted on 09/19/2007 12:13:57 PM PDT by green iguana
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Syria had said temperatures up to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) caused an ammunition dump to explode, killing the soldiers and wounding another 50.

Next Al Gore will blame it on Global Warming which means it's all Bush's fault.

8 posted on 09/19/2007 12:17:37 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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There’s one word missing from this article. Anyone know what it is?

If this is true, Syria just developed crosshairs.


10 posted on 09/19/2007 12:21:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Sorry Hillderella, but the Hsu fits... and king Lerach would like a call. < wicked witch laughter >)
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“dozens of Iranian missile engineers were killed along with the 15 Syrians.”

good.


11 posted on 09/19/2007 12:21:12 PM PDT by Ancient Drive
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re: # 1Could this have been one of those WMDs tht Saddam didn’t have and somebody saw being moved out of Iraq?


12 posted on 09/19/2007 12:22:25 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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Saddam must not have shipped out the Owners Manuals with his WMDs. Here’s hoping for lots more “Work Accidents” in the future...


13 posted on 09/19/2007 12:25:03 PM PDT by gridlock (I do not support Hillary Clinton because I am afraid of strong women)
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I suppose the Red Sea swallowing Pharaoh's’s chariots was also due to a procedural glitch
15 posted on 09/19/2007 12:27:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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“The blast dispersed chemical agents (including VX and Sarin nerve agents and mustard blister agent) across the storage facility and outside. Other Iranian engineers were seriously injured with chemical burns to exposed body parts.”

So they were putting a mustard warhead on the missle but there were containers of VX & Sarin sitting nearby that were damaged by the blast? Sounds a bit improbable - you’d think that agents like VX & Sarin would be secured far away from any activity like this.

And if the nerve agents were in the mix those exposed would suffer something more serious than “chemical burns” - more like “death”.

Just a couple of details that start the needle on the BS meter to quiver a bit.


16 posted on 09/19/2007 12:28:14 PM PDT by G L Tirebiter
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Whee! This is getting tense.


17 posted on 09/19/2007 12:30:39 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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The blast dispersed chemical agents (including VX and Sarin nerve agents and mustard blister agent) across the storage facility and outside. Other Iranian engineers were seriously injured with chemical burns to exposed body parts.”

But Saddamn “never” had nerve gas & WMD’s, nor did he “ever” transport them secretly to Syria while te lierals were stalling Bush’s invasion of Iraq to specifically FIND such weapons, nor did Syria “ever” cooperate with Iraq and other Arab states to continue work on WMD’s after Saddam n was removed from office.....

Nah.

Waiting for ABBCNNBCBS to report this.
Waiting for Newsweek to report this (instead of fawning over HIllary’s lies.

Still waiting.
Still waiting..
Still waiting...
Still waiting....
Still waiting.....
Still waiting......
Still waiting.......


18 posted on 09/19/2007 12:32:29 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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The sources said dozens of Iranian missile engineers were killed along with the 15 Syrians.

Good news comes in small packages..............

19 posted on 09/19/2007 12:33:15 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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Curious. What those other agents were doing in the same facility is more than a little disturbing. Both VX and Sarin can be binary agents but don't have to be. If they aren't this sort of accident is perfectly possible.

This delivery platform - I'm assuming it was a generic Scud type and not literally a Scud missile - isn't particularly accurate for testing purposes; that is, you wouldn't just park a herd of sheep out in a test facility somewhere and expect to hit it. Either the story isn't anywhere near complete or something rather nasty was in the offing. Inquiring minds want to know...

20 posted on 09/19/2007 12:35:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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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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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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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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