Posted on 09/12/2007 6:21:39 AM PDT by Crazieman
Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria
Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab newspaper claims target of alleged raid last week was Syrian missile base financed by Iran
Israel believes that North Korea has been supplying Syria and Iran with nuclear materials, a Washington defense official told the New York Times. “The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,” he said.
The official added that recent Israeli reconnaissance flights over Syria revealed possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials estimate might have been supplied with material from North Korea.
Meanwhile on Wednesday the Nazareth-based Israeli Arab newspaper The Assennara cited anonymous Israeli sources as saying that Israeli jets "bombed a Syrian-Iranian missile base in northern Syria that was financed by Iran... It appears that the base was completely destroyed."
According to the Times, American officials confirmed Tuesday that Israeli jets launched an airstrike inside Syria. Sources said that Israel struck at least one target in northeastern Syria, but could not provide more details.
The most likely target was, according to some administration officials, weapon caches sent by Iran to Hizbullah through Syria.
North Korea commented on the incident Tuesday, calling it a "dangerous provocation", Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
"This is a very dangerous provocation little short of wantonly violating the sovereignty of Syria and seriously harassing the regional peace and security," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea strongly denounces the above-said intrusion and extends full support and solidarity to the Syrian people in their just cause to defend the national security and the regional peace."
NOT CBSNBCCNNMSNBC!
Alas Babylon?
There is already an established history of dealings in missile and other prohibited tech between Iran and NK. I see zero reason not to assume that NK is actively engaged in aiding and supporting any and all enemy’s of the West in general and the US specifically.
There is also a long established history of the USSR using NK Special Purpose Force personnel as trainers and support cadre for any “anti-western” terror organization that asked for help from the late ‘60s until the collapse of the USSR.
So it should be assumed that the NK knows who to talk to about what and how to arrange any logistics details.
I also think it would be foolish to assume that the NK has given up so much as to have disarmed itself of nukes. The safer assumption would be that enough were built to have a few extra to spare and share.
Of course, I’m only guessing from the same stuff everyone else has available, so I may well be way off, and Syria, Iran and NK are really nice places filled with fun folk. Who knows?
Completely plausible, ominous, and probably directed by China. NK has served the purpose (the Middle East is loaded) and must now resume regular, innocuous activities.
Would that it were so!
What needs to be done.
Kim Jong Il has crap? Must be those cheap prostitutes!
After all, if Israel gets nuked out of existence, that will help all those Palestinians that the world cares so much about.
What if the Israelis are just clearing their path to Tehran of any AA batteries that might cause them trouble?
“History is going to be very very kind to GW Bush,....”
I hope you are right, but remember, it is mostly liberals who write the history and teach it....(sigh)
Hopefully, the American people will wake up and realize how dangerous the world is truly becoming. I would not be surprised if some of Syria’s ‘materials’ came from Iraq before the war!
Who knows.
But to do that it would take more than just one little attack like this.
Those of us who follow Biblical prophecy have long known that Damascus is gonna go up in smoke.
I'm sure Kucinich brought it up over dinner with Bashar...
Yeah, it does, the same as the road to peace in WW2 went through Berlin and Tokyo.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17:1
This should be big, butt, who nose.
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