Apparently some FR posters are too young to remember that former Nazi officials including SS officers, got refuge in Syria under the various dictators since the end of WW2, including one named “Aloyisus” or something close to that.
They ran the Syrians CBW programs and were possibly the targets of the Israeli Mossad.
Add in the Russians over the past 50 years and you have another group of CBW specialists.
What is not known is whether the No. Koreans were in Syria and if so what they were working on (nuclear weapons, CBW, missile development, terrorism training, etc). There have been reports of their presence but I don’t have any real documentation to support it.
However, it is reasonable since the No. Koreans have shown up en force in Zimbabwe in the past, and possibly had helped Gaddaffi with his nuclear/CBW programs.
When I was a journalist in Vietnam/Cambodia, I heard reports that the So. Korean troops (ROK) had picked up No. Korean voice traffic in theater. Again, no hard documentation but I heard it from several sources.
Never underestimate the determination of our enemies to get involved in nearly every country in the world if it would be to their benefit in their fights against us.
The North Koreans were definitely involved with the nuclear reactor that Israel took out on Sept 6, 2007.
An article to that effect was posted on FR during the past week, written by a national security advisor to President Bush.