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Remember the big train wreck in Korea last month that was mysteriously handled in the press regarding the cause, damage and death toll?

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"Syrian technicians accompanying unknown equipment were killed in the train explosion in North Korea on April 22, according to a report in a Japanese newspaper.

A military specialist on Korean affairs revealed that the Syrian technicians were killed in the explosion in Ryongchon in the northwestern part of the country, according to the Sankei Shimbun. The specialist said the Syrians were accompanying "large equipment" and that the damage from the explosion was greatest in the portion of the train they occupied.

The source said North Korean military personnel with protective suits responded to the scene soon after the explosion and removed material only from the Syrians' section of the train. .....

As many as 10 Syrians and accompanying North Koreans were killed, according to the report. The bodies of the Syrians were taken home on May 1 by a Syrian aircraft, which had come to Pyongyang to deliver aid supplies.

The Syrians and North Koreans who transported the victimrs were also reportedly wearing protective suits similar to those worn by the North Korean military figures who arrived on the scene immediately after the accident, the source said. ...."

from here

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Were these Scud missiles going to carry chemicals from Saddams midnight shipment to Syria out of Iraq?

How long before Hamas unleashes a WMD attack?

Should we start right now with pre-emptive measures?

Should those measures be asking the French and Russians to help us bake them cookies and invite them to tea? If so I must say John Kerry would make a much better host for the tea party than Bush.

Perhaps they will want to bribe the U.N. Security council into ignoring their activities. Should we do like the Russians and French and take the bribes too?
After all we don't want to make enemies or get the world mad at us, so should we play along?
/sarcasm

serious:
Does anyone know why Syria has been allowed to get away with their crap for so long?
Does anyone besides me think maybe we had some operatives blow up that train? I sure hope we did.

Wow...I haven't heard about this one yet. Of course, I don't expect to hear about it on CNN . That is interesting, though. Who knows what these guys were up to? Fortunately, their plans seem to have been "derailed," so to speak. I do agree that it's time to get serious with Syria. They've gotten away with enough crap already; we need to lean on them a little.

The sanctions enacted against Syria last week (which our *allies* the Euros promptly sent a trade group to fill the vaccuum and lessen the impact) cited procurement of WMD as one of the reasons for the sanctions (as well as sending Jihadis into Iraq and playing dumb). I think there are alot of folks sweating profusely in the state department at the moment regarding both Syria and Iran's rush to obtain WMD. I'm afraid the liberation of Iraq may have come a little late to hope internal revolutions within Iran and Syria will take care of these problems. I can't find the link at the moment but one seemingly in-the-know article I was reading recently stated that the US and Israel already have the plans and have given the green light for attacks in Iran to wipe out it's nuclear program if the mad mullahs don't stop playing footsies REAL SOON NOW.

How much do you want to bet that much later we will learn that Bush refrained from doing something in those areas because it was too close to the election.

Politicians are good at starting wars but they always screw them up once the ball is rolling.

Such is the real danger of politicizing the proliferation of WMD. It makes us risk-adverse at a time when we need to be taking risks.

I suspect if we start looking around, we are going to see more and more this is all a religious war. For those here that think that America is the only target...guess again. This from Thailand:

Co-ordinated dawn assaults on 28 April by Islamic militants, which struck at 12 police stations, check-points and district offices in the three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Songkhla, turned into a slaughter. According to official figures, 108 militants were killed in the fighting and 23 captured. The security forces lost five dead - three policemen and two soldiers - and 19 wounded.


http://www.janes.com/security/internati ... _1_n.shtml

There seems to me to be some deep seated need in the Islamic faith to gain controll of the world.

You know, it's kind of funny.... the movies in the 80s tried to tell us Global Terrorism would be a big problem facing the next century.

me thinks someone had some inside information, or maybe it was THAT obvious and it had to get full scale before anybody really cared

How accurate of a story Will? Can we honestly believe anything we are told in the media? That report could be out by anybody trying to get some pressure put on the Syrians. I wish there was an easy way to know, I guess we just have to rely on the US Intel agency to provide us with the best information at the time and act upon it

Yea, Woodchip, sounds like reverse-Crusades to me.

lol @ 'co-ordinated assaults'. Apparently the only thing co-ordinated was the time. What a pack of idiots. The Thailandese should have just dispensed with the whole group. Noone would balk at that country for not taking prisoners.