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| Deadly blast at Syrian arms depot | |
| 2007-07-26 | |
| An explosion at an arms depot in northern Syria has killed 15 soldiers and wounded 50, the Sana state news agency has said. The explosion took place early in the morning at Musalmiya, about 10km (6 miles) north of the city of Aleppo. "One hospital I went to was filled with injured personnel," a witness told the Reuters news agency. Officials say the blast was caused by high summer temperatures, up to 50C, which set off explosive materials. It was "not the result of sabotage", they said. "There is a heat wave and temperatures reached close to 50C degrees, which caused an ammunition dump to explode," an official told Reuters.
An official at Aleppo University Hospital told the Associated Press news agency that the bodies of five dead soldiers and 10 wounded were brought to the facility. | |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 Obvious bullshit. They're not even trying. The old "Early morning heat wave" expalnation... |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-07-26 17:12 |
| #8 That hard water actually has utility when mixed with some of our Kentucky made products. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2007-07-26 17:03 |
| #7 #5 - clearly a sign of global climate change. And you know? If you happen to have an actual hockey stick and a puck, some of that hard water and skates: it can be pretty fun. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-07-26 16:51 |
| #6 Mossad is everywhere |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-26 16:30 |
| #5 THis just in: reearchers at the McMurdo Science Station have observed water change from its normally fluid state to that of solid when temperatures drop to the 0 degree C mark. Who would have thought THAT????? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-07-26 13:25 |
| #4 An "intentional" accident? Perhaps payback for allowing over 90 percent of the Jihadi homicide boomers (nearly half from the Soddy Kingdom) that are in Iraq to cross over from Syria. If it was our "spooks," we of course would not know or learn of this for about another 20 to 30 years. *wink* |
| Posted by: Sigmund Freud 2007-07-26 13:05 |
| #3 Who would have thunk that "high summer temperatures" were present "early in the morning"? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2007-07-26 12:30 |
| #2 "Oops" |
| Posted by: Seal Team 6 2007-07-26 11:52 |
| #1 Something else to blame on global warming. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2007-07-26 11:46 |