Is Syria additionally seeking nuclear weapons?

RandyTexas

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: There are things we know, there are things that we know that we don’t know, but thereupon there are those things that don’t know we don’t know.

Much of what pursues regarding the possibility of a Syrian nuclear program is comprised of speculations and rumors. Nonetheless, in the puzzle of reality all pieces must be examined and some even set to the side for a date before it is determined whether they are a part of the truth or not.

We start with the Israeli incursion into Syrian air space and an commentary in Ynet news,

Report: Suspected nuclear shipment prompted IAF raid by Syria

Prominent US expert on Middle East tells Washington Post IAF carried out raid by Syria three days after North Korean shipment arrived at country’s port carrying material labeled as cement….

….An IAF raid by Syria allegedly occurred three days after the country received a shipment of material from North Korea labeled as cement, according to a senior US expert on the Middle East, as reported in the Washington Post Saturday.

The expert,

who spoke to the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to avoid compromising his sources, said the attack seemingly targeted a northern Syrian facility that was labeled an agricultural research center, close to the Turkish border.

According to the expert, Israel has kept a close eye on the facility, believing that Syria was using it to extract uranium from phosphates.

It was not clear what the ship arriving from North Korea was actually carrying, although Israeli sources largely believed it was delivering nuclear equipment, the expert told the Washington Post…..Source

Such reporting may easily be dismissed as speculative rumor, however, more background into past Syrian nuclear ambitions build the accusation worthy of further consideration. For part of that background I draw your attention to a bi-monthly news letter, Defense Update, edited by Tamir Eshel, “..an experienced defense writer, retired from 20 years of service with active and reserve forces of the IDF..� and an spread by Colonel (Ret.) David Eshel, former publisher of worldly defense magazines, commentator and a senior defense analyst.

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