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."
ping
. . . and the plot thickens
If true, this is a considerable development.
Wow, who would have thunk it?
“”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.””
Sounds a bit like the German - Japanese thing all those years ago. I guess this makes Iran to be the new Italy in this partnership.
Let’s start a pool on how soon they go “boom”!
Verification?
Hopefully next time they’ll hit hundreds of targets.
Something is ‘going on’ at the moment.
If the israelis ‘spotted something’ surely it wasn’t by chance. They must have been looking for it anyway.
And the World Clock ticks one second closer to Midnight.
Yep. Maybe all the "Run away from Iraq" types might want to take a look at the Mid East and see just how we are now positioned to now deal with both Syria and Iran. History is going to be very very kind to GW Bush, at least on International Relations. Liberating Iraq in 2002 is looking smarter and smarter every day.
Thanks for the post, I will be interested to see if this report is corroborated.
pelosi and kucinich - the boobsie twins
Say wha?
“regional peace”????
Axis of Evil ping.......
The North Korean statement pretty much confirms the story. Guess that also explains why they’re so willing to negotiate on their nuclear program. Perhaps we confronted them with our intel at the negotiating table.
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