Hearings today in Congress may finally reveal what happened last summer in Syria when Israel attacked a desert site. The best summary of what happened is here but it is still mostly speculation based on reports at the time. Now we are hearing reports that video tape exists that shows North Koreans at the site. There also appears to be evidence that it was a reactor essentially identical to North Korea’s Yongbin site. The New York Times hints, inadvertently, why the secrecy may have persisted.
The timing of the administration’s decision to declassify information about the Syrian project has raised widespread suspicions, especially in the State Department, that Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration hawks were hoping that releasing the information might undermine a potential deal with North Korea that would take it off an American list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Why in the world would we take North Korea off such a list if they are providing WMD to Syria and Iran ? Senate hearings were scheduled for this week but the information may still be kept secret, at least as secret as anything can be kept once Senators hear of it.
I expect to hear everything soon.
Tags: Iran, Israel, North Korea, nuclear reactor, syria
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‘Axis of Evil’ seems more accurate all the time.