(Ha'aretz) Avi Scharf - A Western intelligence agency has requested satellite photographs of secret Syrian military installations near the border with Lebanon over the past two years. The area in northwest Syria near the town of Masyaf has been photographed on at least 16 occasions. The images depict at least five guarded installations whose purpose is unclear. Syrian journalist and human rights activist Nizar Nayouf told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf in 2004 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein smuggled his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons into Syria just prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. In the interview, Nayouf claimed that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were stashed in three separate sites in Syria, including an underground military base beneath the village of Al-Baida, one kilometer south of Masyaf.
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