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The base in Syria is a hardened chem/bio/nuc weapons facility with extensive underground complexes.
The components for a nuclear warhead were provided by the Russians who removed the items from Iraq prior to the liberation of Iraq by coalition forces and stored them in this facility.
We didn’t stop them, even though we watched them do it. We didn’t want to,as the items were safe there.
What was on the ship was a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and getting it to England, France, or even the US.
The IDF got soil samples as proof of the plutonium processing that was going on at the facility, but the ship was carrying a missile, from North Korea.
That is what Lil Kim has been testing (remember????)
We didn’t stop it at sea, because we had nothing we could do about them carrying a missile, even an ICBM. It is not against any treaty to have a missile, as long as it doesn’t have a nuke warhead.
Ah-am-a-nutjob has been frothing at the mouth about attacking the US, with nukes, because the plan was for Syria to fire it, and have us blame Iran. They would have claimed innocence and would have retaliated (which the UN would have supported) because it would be obvious the missile didn’t come from Iran. The whole world was supposed to feel sorry for IRAN and mad at the US for mistakenly attacking IRAN.
As the British would say, the IDF and the US dropped a spanner in the works.
The NK guys were missile techs and we turned them into daisy pushers.
Expect to see some major changes in the tide of the War against terrorism, and in the attitudes of some of the Mideast leaders.
Kim Jong-Il feels a little more “ronery”.