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2007-09-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IAF reportedly hit NKorean nuke facility

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Just as there are a lot of North Koreans in Iraq and Iran."

There are a lot of North Koreans in IRAQ?

Really?

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-16 01:00|| 2007-09-16 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Do people actually import cement from about halfway around the world?

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-09-16 01:37|| 2007-09-16 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 The Syrian ambassador to the US, Imad Moustapha, warned at the weekend that Israel would "pay a price" for the raid

Fine. Even though it will be very difficult to negotiate, I'm sure that Israel could be persuaded to open up a corridor for Syrian aircraft to drop as many bombs as they want in the middle of a deserted area so they can make an equally large hole in the Israeli desert, whereupon they can save face by claiming dire revenge has been exacted.

I hope there are many body parts of irreplacable highly-educated NorK nuclear engineers scattered throughout the desert. Might this be why NorK would be so P.O.'d, or was it the money? Seems to me NorK lived up to its end of the bargain and should receive payoff, but I don't know how these things work. I suspect that in any case, Syria will renege if all this is true.

I don't see any way in hades that Iran would allow Syria to have a nuke lest the servant become the master.

Isn't NorK in dire need of cement, or are those times a thing of the past? Why would they export it?

Posted by gorb 2007-09-16 03:40|| 2007-09-16 03:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Why cement? Hmmmm...
The Marine in our family, who's been there twice, told us that there seems to be a cement factory in every town in Anbar and have been for some time (some are decades old). I wouldn't believe that Syria's geological resources wouldn't support the same industry.

Which leads to my first question.....

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-09-16 14:14|| 2007-09-16 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 According to The Washington Post, Israel had been keeping a watchful eye on the facility, which is officially characterized by the Syrians as an agricultural research center.

"Ya gotta jump down, hunh, spin around, hunh, and pick a bale o' neutrons.

Ya gotta jump down, hunh, spin around, hunh, and pick a bale o' tritium too."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-16 14:31|| 2007-09-16 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 :-) Zen

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-16 15:02|| 2007-09-16 15:02|| Front Page Top

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