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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Another Syrian-Iraq Connection?
2004-04-22
From the ever-useful Belmont Club:
Just a few interesting tidbits. This Global Security has an archival link to an Iraqi yellowcake program (uranium enrichment) which was located at Al-Qaim, Iraq. Because the map on the site doesn't show international boundaries, it was not until the recent border battles between the Marines and a battalion sized force of uniformed Jihadis and the revelation that America had been fighting a secret war against infiltrators on the border that I realized that these yellowcake refining facilities were right on the Syrian frontier. I am now beginning to understand why David Kay believed that WMDs may have been shipped to Syria in the lead up to OIF. With the recent VX gas attempts against Jordan, whose provenance is suspected to be Syrian, the plot thickens indeed.

Yes, doesn't it.
Posted by:Steve

#5  For an expounding on the VX theme, check his April 19th entry.
Posted by: Anonymous4491   2004-04-22 10:30:35 PM  

#4  was it vx in jordan? only heard "chemicals" in the press - this would truly be disturbing....didn't a defector from iraq in the 90's indicate that saddam was producing vx?
Posted by: Dan   2004-04-22 3:52:47 PM  

#3  Lucky & Shipman - Don't you know. The "WMDs" appeared to Baby Assad from the sky on the shoulders of a winged messenger. And it wasn't the ghosts of one of Saddam's sons!

It wasn't yellowcake Uranium, it was simply Yellow Cake to celebrate the birthday of a Assad relative. Uranium? NO-no-no. . . Those Geiger counters are broken!

Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-22 3:03:56 PM  

#2  Yep. Frankly, I've always liked the theme of the Imperial Storm Troopers.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-22 1:50:06 PM  

#1  Just read that over at Belmont Club too. The Cantina scene in Star Wars comes to mind.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-04-22 12:44:19 PM  

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