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 Jane’s 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.
Jane’s 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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There have been several threads about this somewhat ancient news.
And more were supposedly killed when Israel bombed the Syrians the other day.
And the UN is going to call them on it and have them 'splain - NOT
Argh.
Dieing by VX nerve agent is about the most horrid thing I could possibly imagine.
Were they all wearing “Milk Factory” shirts?
naaah... it was an “ass-burn” factory...
This is one news item I’m happy to see posted over and over and over :)
Couldn’t have happened to a better set of folks. Do you think they could do it again? Keep your fingers crossed
There they can amuse themselves without playing whack-a-jewdle.
The Syrians are going to get smashed first, and the Iranians second. North Korea is third out and then the inning will change for the heavy hitters of the home team, and that means....game over, Mr. Ahminajihad.
What a needle dinked bug f**ker that little Islamic Hitler is. He too will soon join the 52 Virginians.LOL
No doubt the shout was heard from those poor souls, "Don't VX me, bro!"
I’m betting that all the victims were exposed to the WMD and the fuel explosion was just a quicker way to dispose of the problems both metaphorically and actually.
Yeah, this ain’t breaking news......
7th century assholes shouldn’t be playing with 21st century devices.....
Toooooo bad! :)
North Korea, with the help of Russian Engineers started building Scuds back in the late 70’s through the late 80’s and began selling them to Iraq.
“the explosion sent out a cloud of chemical and nerve gases, including the deadly VX and Sarin agents as well as mustard gas”
No idea where that could have come from! /s
7th century cultures with $trillions in oil revenues to play with. We should have “read the label on the box” before purchase. :^/
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