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09/14/2004: "Report: Syria used WMDs in Sudan"
UN Security Council member Syria has been implicated in some of the continuing genocide going on in the Darfur region of the Sudan:
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.
Syria was not part of George Bush's "Axis of Evil," but should have been. What do you suppose the Security Council will have to say about the use of WMDs on defenseless civilians if this report turns out to be accurate?
(Thanks to Charles Johnson of LGF, one of the now-famous exposers of the fraudulent Bush NG papers, for the link.)
