NTI: Country Overviews: Syria: Biological Facilities

Biological Facilities

Cerin

Location: Cerin, Syrian Mediterranean coast
Subordinate to: Syrian government, CERS
Size: Unknown
Primary Function: Allegedly a facility dedicated to the production of BW agents.

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Key Sources: Anthony Cordesman, Syria and Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000), p. 9; Kenneth R Timmerman, Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Syria and Libya (Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1992), pp. 60-61.


	Updated December 2003

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