From Source: Syria Working on Clandestine Nuclear Program Since 1986: A former Syrian military officer who has had access to sensitive military information in Damascus confirmed Tuesday that Syria has been working on a clandestine nuclear program at least since 1986. He said many North Korean nationals are in Syria in relation to that program. He claimed that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan has visited Syria several times since 1989, after being introduced to the Damascus Baathist regime by Libya. He also said Syria possesses the “latest Russian technology in air defense,” but that it was reluctant to expose it
Read More +Challenging the UN’s Darker Side
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The further dumbing down of the United Nations. From Challenging the UN’s Darker Side: The UN on Monday will launch a series of international meetings on racism, leading up to a major world conference in 2009. The so-called “Durban Review” process is the follow-up to the 2001 conference in South Africa that turned into a diplomatic fiasco. All indications suggest next week’s session, and the events that follow from it, will mimic both the format and script of the original. The ghosts of 2001 are almost certain to be conjured up by the shamans of Durban II. The party chosen
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From Gaddafi’s Son: Bulgarians Were Tortured: Six Bulgarian medical workers imprisoned on charges of infecting children with the HIV virus were tortured by electric shock during their captivity, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi told al-Jazeera television. The doctor and five nurses were released last month after eight years in prison, and several have described ordeals of electric shock, rape, attacks by dogs and other torture during their incarceration.
Read More +Received by email.=============The Wall Street Journal Home Page http://online.%20wsj.com/home As of 11:11 p.m. EDT Monday, July 9, 2007 Letters Kudos to Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado for her poignant account of the bustling, cosmopolitan Egypt she and her family, as Jews, were forced to leave in 1963 and the country’s anemic condition today (“Searching For My Father’s Lost City, June 30, 2007). I could recount a remarkably similar story about Libya, my native country. It was exactly 40 years ago this month that more than 2,000 years of the Jewish presence on what is today Libyan soil came to an end.
Read More +There is not one Arab nation that keeps its word. From Libya Backs Out of Deal with U.S. to Destroy Chemical Weapons: Libya has informed the U.S. of plans to back out of a contract to destroy its mustard gas stocks as promised under a landmark 2003 agreement, U.S. officials said. Libya is believed to still have 23 metric tons of old mustard gas and 1,300 metric tons of precursor chemicals, and had promised to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction. “The bottom line is, I don’t know what the Libyans are up to,” one U.S. official said.
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