Posted on 09/23/2007 4:31:31 PM PDT by DGHoodini
An accidental explosion in a secret weapons facility in Syria killed dozens of Syrian and Iranian military engineers as they were attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile, according to an authoritative military journal.
Fifteen military personnel and dozens of Iranian advisers died when the fuel for the missile caught fire and the weapon exploded, according to unnamed Syrian sources quoted by Janes Defence Weekly.
The report said that the explosion sent out a cloud of chemical and nerve gases, including the deadly VX and Sarin agents as well as mustard gas, across the facility in the northern city of Aleppo. The claims could not be verified independently by sources in London and the United States.
The official Syrian news agency, Sana, reported that 15 Syrian military personnel were killed and 50 others injured in an accident involving very explosive products on July 26. It made no mention of Iranian officers also being killed in the blast, which it said was not an act of sabotage.
Janes claimed that the engineers were trying to weaponise a Syrian-made Scud missile with a range of about 300 miles (480km) when the explosion occurred. The Syrians and Iranians are thought to have been working closely together on developing a more effective chemical warhead for the Scud ballistic missile system.
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