1938 Alert, and an update on this story from the Associated Press:
North Koreans were in Syria and Damascus may have had contacts with "secret suppliers" to obtain nuclear equipment, a senior US nuclear official said Friday.
Andrew Semmel, acting deputy assistant secretary of state for nuclear nonproliferation policy, did not name the suppliers, but said there were North Koreans in Syria and that he could not exclude that the network run by disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan may have been involved.
Semmel was responding to questions about an Israeli air strike in northern Syria last week.
Neither side has explained what exactly happened, but a US government official confirmed that Israeli warplanes were targeting weapons from Iran and destined for Hizbullah in Lebanon.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Israel had gathered satellite imagery showing possible North Korean cooperation with Syria on a nuclear facility.
Semmel, who is in Italy for a meeting Saturday on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, said that Syria was certainly on the US nuclear "watch list."
"There are indicators that they do have something going on there," he said. "We do know that there are a number of foreign technicians that have been in Syria. We do know that there may have been contact between Syria and some secret suppliers for nuclear equipment. Whether anything transpired remains to be seen."
"So good foreign policy, good national security policy, would suggest that we pay very close attention to that," he said. "We're watching very closely. Obviously, the Israelis were watching very closely."
Asked if the suppliers could have been North Koreans, he said: "There are North Korean people there. There's no question about that. Just as there are a lot of North Koreans in Iraq and Iran."
Asked if the so-called Khan network, which supplied nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, could have been involved, he said he "wouldn't exclude" it.
...Do you remember the North Korean Missle Tests, with missiles being fired in the general direction of Japan?.......The Syrians and the Iranians attended these tests....Yep....
Ban Muslim Immigration....
Makes sense that the Syrians would be sharing technology and materials with Iran and North Korea. They all have fairly common goals, but neither Syria nor Iran have a snowball's chance in hell of developing even WWII-era missiles or nukes without a lot of outside help.
The North Koreans, in recent days, have been making noise about dismantelling their nuclear program. It doesn't take a genius to know they're lying and doing nothing but buying time.
The operations could easily be transferred to another country and continued. In this case, the country (Syria) has easy access to Iran- something that wasn't possible from North Korea.
I view all this as very bad news, and a sign that Iran's aquisition of nuclear weapons is continuing unhindered. We have carrier-based aircraft, and warplanes at airbases all around Syria and Iran. We need to take action against thses folks before they take action against us.
Nothing like a little dust up to clear the air in Syria.
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"but neither Syria nor Iran have a snowball's chance in hell of developing even WWII-era missiles or nukes without a lot of outside help."
....They do not have to develope them, they just buy them. Of course, they would love the prestige of being able to make their own...but it is not a priority....
We could lend a helping Squadron or two... if Need be. Like, we are so close we might not even need Tankers to get there.
One of the many Benifits of Tarmac in Iraq.
We could be, say, Hitting Foreign Fighters crossing the Border. Just, with a bad Aim.
Just one of the many reasons only the pre-planned rotation of Forces are comming Home.
...and, by admission from the "land of the ayrans" (iran, translated), they ADMIT who's helping them in collusion...the communist occupation forces in mainland china.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RLE5H80&show_article=1
...and here's why.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ea_china_09_14.asp
without the communist occupation forces in mainland china, the sock puppets of the SCO, aka islamofascism, will collapse tomorrow.
"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap."
Isa 17:1
So if everybody knows that the Khan group is spreading nuclear info, why isn't it being stopped??????
Because of the devil's bet with mushmouth...ooops, I meant musharraf.
Besides, killing him off won't stop anything, since the sock-puppets' master occupying mainland china will simply pick a replacement.
Speaking of topic...
anyone else see this interesting tidbit?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449145,00.html
Oh my...looks like we should expect more islamofascist strikes on Turkey for this act.
"... disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan ..."
A.Q. Khan, A.Q. as in Al Qaeda?
north korea's no more a sock puppet than iran is, and syria is merely a sock puppet of iran...and NK doesn't take a bowl movement without permission from their own master of puppets, who is also the same one influencing the rest in their asymmetric warfare against the west...
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200709/INT20070914a.html
It's also reason #1 irans nuke facilities haven't already been taken out.
Syrians were also present in North Korea a few years ago when a train in North Korea carrying chemical weapons exploded (the Syrians were ON the train conducting some sort of experiment) and made a number of people in the area it detonated in sick (I believe there were some casualties).
Muslims of course are ALWAYS involved in killing no matter WHERE they go and get involved--just as allah orders them to in the Kuran.
Islam isn't called the 'Death Cult' for nothin'.
Update...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2461421.ece
Very interesting