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A curious case of nuclear intrigue
via The Economist: News analysis and views by (author unknown) on April 24, 2008
Did North Korea help to build a nuclear facility in Syria, that Israel then blew up?
WHAT did Israel bomb in Syria last year? What did the Israelis know, and how did they know it? And why did American administration officials present Israel?s intelligence to members of Congress in a closed-door briefing on Thursday April 24th? As many questions swirl around the politics of the moment as around the facts of the Israeli attack.
About all that is certain is that on September 6th Israeli jets destroyed a target near the town of Deir ez-Zor in Syria. The Syrians protested, but initially said that the bombs had fallen on farmland or on unimportant military buildings. Israel and America, at first, maintained a smug silence but it gradually emerged that the Israelis believed they had destroyed a partially-built nuclear reactor and, moreover, one that North Korea was helping to build. The Syrians have since acted guilty, building over the site and preventing international inspectors from visiting. ...
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