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North Korean casualties in Syrian strike: Hoagland

October 8th, 2007 · No Comments

In case you missed yesterday’s column by Jim Hoagland in the Washington Post:

But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may have been intended to produce plutonium, according to a senior official with access to those reports. The Israelis have provided the United States with photographs, physical material and soil samples from the site — taken both before and after the raid — according to two independent sources.

Tags: North Korea · WMD · Syria

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