Posted on 09/14/2004 3:04:06 PM PDT by Thud
BERLIN : Syria tested chemical weapons on civilians in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region in June and killed dozens of people.
The German daily Die Welt newspaper, in an advance release of its Wednesday edition, citing unnamed western security sources, said that injuries apparently caused by chemical arms were found on the bodies of the victims.
It said that witnesses quoted by an Arabic news website called ILAF in an article on August 2 had said that several frozen bodies arrived suddenly at the "Al-Fashr Hospital" in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in June.
Die Welt said the sources had indicated that the weapons tests were undertaken following a military exercise between Syria and Sudan.
Syrian officers were reported to have met in May with Sudanese military leaders in a Khartoum suburb to discuss the possibility of improving cooperation between their armies.
According to Die Welt, the Syrians had suggested close cooperation on developing chemical weapons, and it was proposed that the arms be tested on the rebel SPLA, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, in the south.
But given that the rebels were involved in peace talks, the newspaper continued, the Sudanese government proposed testing the arms on people in Darfur.
Details of what were in the weapons were not disclosed.
The Sudanese government has been accused of arming and backing Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, which have rampaged through the western Darfur region for the past 19 months.
An estimated 50,000 people have been killed and 1.4 million more uprooted in a campaign against Darfur's black African population, which began in February 2003 when Khartoum and the Janjaweed cracked down on a rebel uprising.
The United States has accused Syria of trying to acquire materials and the know-how to develop chemical weapons and claims that Sudan has been seeking to improve its capability to produce them for many years.
- AFP
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No big deal the are just testing out the WMD's that Saddum shipped to Syria
Just spreadin' the luv.
No question Iraq's WMD's were shipped off to Syria before the inpectors got back there... Luckily GW acted when he did... According to Kerry we should have waited yeah wait till he could have gotten the WMD's back from Syria...Kerry Waits around and people die...
"Kerry lies (around)...People die"
Bookmark, and see what develops.
Thanks for the ping.
Veeeery interesting.
Gee: I wonder where they might have gotten something like that?
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I'm sure they were only infidels. After all, you have to test these things on someone.
looks more like great balls a'fire.
We've seen the video of them trying it on puppies, they had to go to humans sometime. I'm sure they were fully compensated volunteers, and if not, like you said, nothing but Sudanese D'himmi, of even less worth than the American infidel.
Yes- bookmark.
Syria = country of terrorists .
Trust yet verify- then bomb the Syrian bastards back to the stone age.
No, just encourage our Israeli allies to do so. They have more personal reasons to clean up the neighborhood, and we've got a long list of miscreants to deal with.
Same guys who reported Saddam's WMDs?
2 points
1 Syria like the former government of Iraq has a history of using chemical weapons
2 What did happen to the WMD that Saddam had?
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