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Entries Tagged as 'WMD'

Misinterpreting Syria’s nuke program

October 17th, 2007 · 9 Comments

The Syrian envoy to the UN said two days ago during a meeting of the First Committee on Disarmament that Israel had bombed a Syrian nuclear facility, or so the UN reported in a subsequent press release:
Moreover, Israel was the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations’ airspace, […]

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Tags: WMD · UN · Diplomacy · Syria · Israel

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 […]

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Tags: North Korea · WMD · Syria

More juice on the Syrian air strike

September 28th, 2007 · 12 Comments

The Kuwaiti press claims a pair of scoops on the September 6 Israeli air strike in Syria.
The Al Jerida newspaper reported Friday that retired Iranian general Ali Reza Asgari, who defected in February, gave Israel the intelligence on Syria’s missile program used in the Syrian airstrike. After the former deputy defense minister and Revolutionary Guard […]

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Tags: WMD · Iran · Syria · Israel