Syria has been on a WMD Kick since the 1973 Yom Kippur War!
September 19, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Saddam Hussein’s technicians went to great lengths to modify ancient Scud missiles the former Soviet Union unloaded on him out of very old inventory.
However, the age and type of the Scuds he possessed were impossible to modify to carry chemical or biological warheads.
I have always believed that Saddam Hussein transferred his chemical and biological Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) across the Iraqi border with Syria when the Allied forces invaded Iraq, by an agreement reached between Bashar and Saddam at the border some seven months before Iraq was attacked.
(See http://www.tribulationperiod.com which follows the Jerusalem Post Article). It lends credence to the events of the last week in northern Syria.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 18, 2007
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.
According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas and VX gas.
The factory was created specifically for the purposes of altering ballistic missiles to carry chemical payloads, the magazine report claimed.
Reports of the accident were circulated at the time, however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection.
The report comes on the heels of criticism leveled by the Syrians at the United States, accusing it of spreading “false” claims of Syrian nuclear activity and cooperation with North Korea to excuse an alleged Israeli air incursion over the country this month.
According to Global Security.org, Syria is not a signatory of either the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), – an international agreement banning the production, stockpiling or use of chemical weapons, or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Syria began developing chemical weapons in 1973, just before the Yom Kippur War. Global Security.org cites the country as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East.
Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 154B
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 154B
January 14, 2004
Whatever Happened to the WMD in Iraq
?
This has been an intriguing question that has produced a lot of political hay for those who say the Iraqi WMD did not exist, but were merely an excuse to invade Iraq. And, to be perfectly honest, no one knows for sure what happened to the WMD. There was an event, which I did report in Special Prophecy Update Number 81A, that I really did not understand involving Iraq and Syria, and it did indeed seem strange at the time, considering past relationships between the two countries. The following three paragraph quote is taken from the August 17, 2002 Update 81A, titled “More Strategic Dialog Among the 10 Toes,” which was written some seven months before Iraq was invaded by coalition forces.
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“Iraq has recently been conducting large-scale military maneuvers on the Syrian border, reportedly by prior agreement with Syria’s new President Bashar Assad. Bashar then made a trip to Iran to hold talks with its President Mohammad Khatami. The talks were described as a strategic dialog.
The healing process is taking time because of all the past conflicts that have occurred between these nations, but it is progressing because of a common healing balm – Their natural hatred for Israel, which far exceeds their dislike for each other. The great breaches between them occurred in the last decade. Iraq and Iran fought a very bitter war that took the lives of millions. The relations between Iraq and Syria, which are ruled by two rival wings of the Baath party, were severed in the eighties, but have been on the mend since 1997, fueled mainly by trade links.
We have covered these trade links in detail in previous updates, as well as
the sneaky way that Syria is militarily assisting Iraq and receiving oil benefits in return.
This is one of the reasons that Bashar, last month, sent a message to Saddam on the thirty-fourth anniversary of his rival Baath party rising to power in Baghdad. In the message he underlined his desire to boost the brotherly ties between Iraq and Syria.
An independent Jordanian newspaper, Al Hilal, reported that last week Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein on the border between the two countries. The article said Assad took along his brother, Maher, and the head of the Syrian Intelligence Service with him to the meeting. During the meeting the report stated that Saddam presented Assad with an ancient rifle taken from the Iraqi museum.”
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This meeting between two presidents of two rival Baath parties of two countries, who did not like or trust each other, seemed strange to me at the time. Recent reports from a senior Syrian journalist, Nizar Najoef, who has recently defected to Western Europe, suggest that this meeting may have been for more than just a get together for a friendly chat. It may have been to coordinate the transfer of Iraq’s WMD across the border into Syria in the event Iraq was overrun by foreign forces, and the Iraqi maneuvers along the border on the Iraqi side may have involved the scurrying movement of special units of Saddam’s Republican Guard, who could have been in the process of concealing them along the border for a quick transfer to the Syrians, if necessary.
I linked the events of Upd ate 81A in 2002 with
a report from a Dutch newspaper article of January 5, 2004. It carried a letter from Nizar Nijoef in which he identified three Syrian sites where Iraq’s WMD are stored.
Nijoef says he know
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here they are hidden. Does he know? I honestly don’t know, and I cannot vouch for the validity of his claim, but it does explain the strange meeting of Assad and Hussein in 2002.
The Newspaper was “Die Telegraff,” and Nijoef claims the storage places to be as follows:
1. Sjinsjar on the Lebanese border with Syria.
2. The villege of Tal Snan.
3. In a vast complex of tunnels that are part of a great underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. He claims that Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels. This underground complex is said to be beneath the town of al- Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria.
Is his report the truth
? I don’t know! But if it is, then you may rest assured the U.S. and Israeli Intelligences will find out, or already know one way or the other. And if is true, and I were Bashar Assad, I would be making every effort to make peace with Israel and to get on the “good side” of the United States before
they took action to eliminate the WMD. Oddly enough, this is precisely what Assad has been doing over the last two months.
End Archive Prophecy Update Number 154B, January 14, 2004
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