Near East Report: Washington Biweekly On Middle East Policy: Israel: SyriaProducing More Deadly Form of Nerve Gas

摘要

Israeli officials expressed concern about Syria's continuing efforts to produce amore lethal form of nerve gas. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai confirmed an April 29 Ha'aretz story, written by correspondent Ze'ev Schiff, which said that Syria is producing VX nerve gas, and has started placing it on missile warheads. 'With the help of a Russian chemical weapons expert, Syria has begun producing a new and lethal nerve gas called VX,' Schiff wrote, quoting Western intelligence sources. 'Syria is now in the first stages of attaching VX chemical warheads to its ground to ground missiles.'.