Congress to hear of alleged Syrian, NKorean nuke cooperation

[babsbunny]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080422/ap_on_go_co/us_nkorea_syria



By PAMELA HESS and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 1 minute ago

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress will be told this week about intelligence linking North Korea to Syria's alleged nuclear program, congressional officials said Tuesday.

The Senate and House intelligence committees were scheduled to be briefed on Thursday.

North Korea has been suspected of helping Syria with a secret nuclear program, but both countries deny it. Pyongyang says it has never spread its nuclear expertise beyond its borders.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that U.S. intelligence officials will tell the committees North Korea was helping Syria build a plutonium-fueled reactor. Israeli warplanes bombed a site in Syria on Sept. 6 that private analysts say may have been the site of a reactor, based on commercial satellite imagery taken after the raid. The site later was razed and wiped clean.

[scarletwoman]

1. There are so many layers of lies in that "report" that it's rather daunting.

A few points -- there was no "plutonium-fueled reactor" in Syria. What they bombed was an old nuclear plant that everyone had known about for years.

The purpose of the bombing run was to test where Syria's air defenses lit up, so they'd know what they'd have to take out in the event of attacking Iran.

They stopped a North Korean-registered cargo vessel coming into a Lebanese port. The ship carried building materials, but the propagandists claimed the cement powder and such was part of the nefarious "plot" between N. Korea and Syria.

And the Wall Street Journal as a credible source?!?! No way, not since Murdoch got his talons in it.

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[lovuian]

2. USA aids Israel only to test arms under live attack

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJW_hLM1pWI

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/101708-1/

Richard Aldrich: Electronic warfare has been around a long time and had already reached quite a level of sophistication during the Second World War. However, the new aspect of this operation was the use of network attacks. It appears that the command and control systems of the Syrian military were directly attacked by Israelis using computers as weapons. This is a specialist form of military hacking. For many years there has been an active debate about how practical and realistic the idea of pure 'network warfare' really is. During the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s this activity seemed to be limited to fairly trivial "denial of service" attacks.

Now, perhaps we have seen the first live example of the military application of network warfare.

One of the troubling issues with network warfare is that it is hard for the victim to know if they have been attacked - or merely suffered a network failure. Even if they are sure they are being attacked, they can't always tell who is attacking them?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jUUqa3YpHT0

Report: IAF knocked out Syria radar during Sept. 6 strike
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Tags: Syria, Israel, nuclear, U.S.

The Israel Air Force hit a Syrian radar post near the country's northern border with Turkey on September 6, knocking out Syria's entire radar system as a prelude to striking a suspected nuclear reactor, Aviation Week & Space Technology is reporting in its November 26 edition.

The radar site was hit with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the IAF to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved, the report said.

Subsequently all of Syria's air-defense radar system went off the air for a period of time that encompassed the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told Aviation Week

According to the report, the United States provided Israel with information about Syrian air defenses as Israel carried out the strike.
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[lovuian]

3. Any news on this

from you CSpanners???

[lovuian]

4. i've read that the CIA is going to reveal North Korea was

producing a secret Nuclear program in Syria ... I think Congress is wanting to know our involvement

Bombers or shutting down their electricity in Syria

Its tommorrow so CSpanners let us know

They have supposedly destroyed a plutonium reactor???