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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Are Syrian WMD facilities ISO-certified?

By TigerHawk at 9/19/2007 12:39:00 AM

Power Line (emphasis added):

The Jerusalem Post publicizes an extraordinary story originally reported by Jane's Defence Weekly. The story involves an apparent WMD accident causing the death of dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers working on missile warheads in Syria. Not quite an Axis of Evil trifecta, but (I would guess) close enough to be ignored by or downplayed in the mainstream media.

Of course, if the mainstream media wants to bury the lede -- that Iranians are working on chemical weapons in Syria -- there are several other ways to build the story:

"Shortage of personal injury lawyers lead to poor conditions for Syrian workers"
"Dozens killed in Syria; inadequate worker safety training cited"
"Outsourcing kills: Iran outsources dangerous work to countries with lax regulation"
"In Syria, not all arms manufacturing is ISO-certified"
"American sanctions force Syria to build weapons it cannot buy"
"Sarin gas leak kills dozens"
"Syria: Russian missiles difficult to arm"

You don't suppose any of the mullahs who sent those engineers off to die in Syria bothered to ask themselves whether Allah might not, in the end, punish them for loading nerve gas on Scud missiles, do you?

Nah.

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6 Comments:

By Yishai, at Wed Sep 19, 10:25:00 AM:

"Israel's lack of response increases death toll of Syrian industrial accident"

By Ray, at Wed Sep 19, 10:31:00 AM:

To be cold-blooded about it, they'll find it harder to replace the engineers than the nerve gas.

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 19, 12:02:00 PM:

Hopefully Iranian nuclear sites, scientists on the premises, naval, military, and refineries are next in a 72 hour exercise in Iranian airspace. Before Mohammad Obama is Commander in Chief.

SEW

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 19, 12:42:00 PM:

A bit off topic. But please give your retort/feedback on this article since this site is one the most popular sites among the Iranian community in the US.

http://iranian.com/main/2007/what-will-you-do-after-america-destroys-iran-0

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 19, 05:07:00 PM:

Oh, who cares about Syria? OJ is back in the news!

By Anonymous, at Thu Sep 20, 04:08:00 PM:

Spook86 isn't buying the story as told: http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2007/09/too-good-to-be-true.html