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2007-03-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

WND : Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-05 06:03|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 IMO, If USA hits Iran, it's Arab allies will do nothing. Loyalty is not one of Arabs' leading attributes.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-05 06:38|| 2007-03-05 06:38|| Front Page Top

#2 ""The Syrians believe they can vaccinate themselves and they are working within the Syrian military. They're certainly not worried about releasing these biological weapons in a military setting, or even if civilians were infected as well, as long as they are vaccinated."

Two thoughts: first, I wonder if any of this stuff came from Saddam, and second, I wonder how the Syrians think that vaccination deal is going to work against a nuclear firestorm in Damascus?

Posted by mac 2007-03-05 08:32|| 2007-03-05 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 "I believe they are testing biological weapons right now, in Sudan, in the conflict in Darfur," she answered. "There is credible information about flyover activity in Darfur, where little parachutes have been dropped down on the population.

Hmmm, bioweapons in the Sudan. Have not seen mention of that before. Confirmatino from anywhere else?

Posted by Phaigum Shens7480 2007-03-05 09:02|| 2007-03-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmm, bioweapons in the Sudan. Have not seen mention of that before.

Actually, there were articles about that in RB over the last year IIRC, just let me check the archive.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-05 09:43|| 2007-03-05 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 OOk, search gave nothing, so this perhpas means this was rearlier than what i recall (everything's a blurr to me after a short while, save the last meal I had, and the names of various porn starlets).
Lemme Google™ it :

Syria tests chemical weapons in Sudan (september 2004)

SYRIA SMUGGLES MISSILES, WMD TO SUDAN (intro, april 2004)

Syria tested chemical arms on civilians in Darfur region: press (september 2004)

NTI Country Overviews Syria Nuclear Chronology

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-05 09:51|| 2007-03-05 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Bio weapons are terribly overrated. Against military forces, high explosive is much more effective, and the few pathogens useful against civilians are so terribly infectious that they are just as likely to infect your side, too. And any vaccination program will attract a LOT of attention.

Even when used against primitive peoples, toxins such as "yellow rain" were preferred to live weapons, because they are just more effective in the long run.

Now that the US military controversially vaccinates against some strains of anthrax, which is hard as hell to disseminate effectively anyway, it pretty well leaves just using some agent that will maybe kill a couple dozen people before being stomped out.

Just not worth it. And Muslims don't like it anyway, as there is no big explosion.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-05 10:11|| 2007-03-05 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 Muslims (or, at least, Arabs) love chem/bio.
Look up
Egypt's war in Yemen (1963-67).
Iran-Iraq war.
Hell, Paleos put rat poison in their suicide vests.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-05 10:48|| 2007-03-05 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 I guess they forgot that the US equates all weapons of mass destruction, that is biological=chemical=nuclear and has said that it will respond to any wmd attack with nukes.

Posted by RWV 2007-03-05 10:57|| 2007-03-05 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like a real fine way to get your capital cauterized, boys.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-03-05 13:41|| 2007-03-05 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The Syrians wouldn't have to worry about bio contamination of their country. Radiation would take care of that. Lot of sabre rattling and rhetoric in the mid-East. All a bunch of Baghdad Bobs.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-05 21:55|| 2007-03-05 21:55|| Front Page Top

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