Syria was carrying on Iraq’s nuclear program.

By Ted Belman

Haaretz reported on Netanyahu’s statement that he was asked to approve the Syrian strike. What I found interesting in that report is,

[..] Meanwhile, publications of the Syrian Reform Party, an opposition group representing the oppressed Assyrian minority in Syria, recently reprinted a story originally published in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyasa in December 2006, which quoted European intelligence sources as saying that Syria is conducting “an advanced nuclear program” in Hasakah, a province in northeastern Syria.

According to the report in Al-Siyasa, the Syrian nuclear program used Iraqi materials smuggled by Saddam Hussein’s sons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in March, 2003.

September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Syria was carrying on Iraq’s nuclear program.