The Washington Post reports that Israel informed President Bush over the summer of the possibility that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria. Government sources however say that no action was taken by Israel until the US confirmed their intelligence at which point they bombed the suspected nuclear weapons facility. The strange part about this story is that no one is talking about it. Israel has said very little and censored press reports of the event, Syria has made minimal protest and claimed there were no casualties. As far as the US goes after Syria and North Korea said they were not working together to pursue nuclear weapons President Bush merely said that it would be unfortunate if the claims were true because it would jeopardize the six party talks with Pyongyang.
While I can only speculate at this point it seems like the Middle East is getting worse every day of the week. US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, US and British troops in Iraq, the possibility of a French led EU coalition in Iran seems plausible in the future if things continue in this direction, and who knows possibly a UN peacekeeping force to rebuild Syria if Israel blows them back to hell. I think the following picture says it all for me.
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