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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| N Korean train accident involved Syrian personnel and equipment |
| 2004-05-16 |
| EFL 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... The technicians were from the Syrian technical research center called Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Scientific (CERS). Although CERS was established to promote science and technology development, it has been viewed as a major player in Syria’s weapons of mass destruction development program. [that’s because Syria’s science and technology is pretty close to zero -- of course NKor’s science and technology may be even closer to zero] |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #9 "Now tell me thats a coincidence!" Okay...its a coincidence. Once is happenstance...twice is coincidence...and three times is enemy action. I'm waiting for the the third one. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-05-17 1:10:43 AM |
| #8 Please delete the article i posted on the same story, I'm convinced that this has something to do with rocketfuel. |
| Posted by: Evert V. in NL 2004-05-16 5:23:03 PM |
| #7 Trains - why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-05-16 4:54:06 PM |
| #6 In the US the suits would have been used also if the train had been carrying chemicals. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-16 4:53:47 PM |
| #5 Three countries get named as the axis of evil. One gets invaded and the other two have mega-train booms within two months, and you have to go back 50 years to find a similar boom anywhere in the world. Now tell me thats a coincidence! |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-05-16 10:37:10 AM |
| #4 Actually it sounds like Calvin planned it, as in Calvin and Hobbes. Q:A freight train full of bs is headed north at 11 teen miles an hour is stopped at the siding while a south bound train full of keroanium is headed south at 14 klips per sec. What is the speed of impact? A: Atlanta |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-16 10:15:42 AM |
| #3 Speculation: The blast was arranged by the Chinese, as an assassination attempt on KJI -- a face-saving way to resolve the NK issue without provoking streams of refugees crossing into China. That speculation is reinforced by the news that Syrians were amongst the personnel on the boomed train. While Syria is a closed society by Arab standards, and hard to infiltrate, it'd be a good deal easier for the Chinese to infiltrate a field agent amongst them than amongst the NKors. They probably wouldn't even need to infiltrate the incoming group of technicians, just hire one of the Arabs as a rent-a-boomer. |
| Posted by: Yank In Paris 2004-05-16 10:07:33 AM |
| #2 We'll never know, but that boom may have been planned for by Langley. What a nice thought that is. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-05-16 9:54:41 AM |
| #1 I like the story about the heavy protective suits everyone wore to clean up the area of the train the Syrians were in, as well when they handled the bodies....wonder what they were transporting, hmmmmmm? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-16 9:00:37 AM |