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2006-01-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Sada sez Syria gave al-Qaeda Sammy's WMDs

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-30 03:38|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, I think the story the Jordanians came up with about the weapons all being homebrews are inconsistent with what they initially reported the scale of the attacks to be.

Posted by Phil 2006-01-30 04:13|| 2006-01-30 04:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The homebrew story just wasn't plausible. Nobody would mix together 40 or 50 chemicals together as the Jordanians reported. It smacked of a made up story by someone who knew nothing about Chemistry.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-30 04:37|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-30 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Has this guy got a book in the works?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-30 08:19|| 2006-01-30 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 20,000 potential casualties makes good propaganda. My take is that it was a truckload of acids and industrial chemicals. The contents were never released because people would realize the claims were way overinflated.

Posted by ed 2006-01-30 08:51|| 2006-01-30 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 If it really were a Junior Science Fair level bomb, would the Syrians have allowed it to go forward from their own soil?

Posted by Phil 2006-01-30 09:11|| 2006-01-30 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 What do you mean the Syrians allowed it to go forward? The "bomb" was never built. The chemicals were raided in a Jordanian warehouse. Some of the chemicals were shipped in from Syria, but mixing a few noxious chemicals do not make a chemical weapon. PS. The original claim was 80,000 casualties.

'WMD terrorism': Sum of all fears doesn't always add up
The defense attorneys aren't alone in scoffing at the "WMD" claim. International experts checking the suspects' supposed list of chemicals from the industrial compound ammonium to the explosive nitroglycerin say either the defendants or the Jordanian authorities, or both, had little inkling about the makings of a chemical weapon.

The compounds "may generate some toxic byproducts, but they're unlikely to result in significant deaths by poisoning," said Ron G. Manley of Britain, a former senior U.N. adviser on chemical weapons.

Posted by ed 2006-01-30 09:27|| 2006-01-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The compounds "may generate some toxic byproducts, but they're unlikely to result in significant deaths by poisoning," said Ron G. Manley of Britain, a former senior U.N. adviser on chemical weapons.

Incompetence as a defence. Clever.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-30 09:39|| 2006-01-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 If the Syrians were in the habit of allowing bomb assembly by random groups on their territory the Phalangist Militia would have already done it.

Posted by Phil 2006-01-30 09:42|| 2006-01-30 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Nimble Spemble: this guy's book is already out. It's titled "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied And Survived Saddam Hussein."

Posted by growler 2006-01-30 11:48|| 2006-01-30 11:48|| Front Page Top

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