Question
Foreign Affairs > Middle East > War on Terror
Support Israel's strike in Syria to take out a potential nuclear facility
|
275 votes for this question.
Background
Operation Orchard was an Israeli air strike on a target in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria carried out just after midnight on September 6, 2007.
On September 13 The Washington Post reported that U.S. and Israeli intelligence gathered information on a nuclear facility constructed in Syria with North Korean aid, and that the target was a ""facility capable of making unconventional weapons"". According to The Sunday Times, the target was a cache of nuclear materials from North Korea. A North Korean ship had docked in Syria just a few days earlier, and after the strike North Korea publicly condemned the raid; North Korea rarely comments on international events. The ship was later identified as the Al Hamed, a 1,700-tonne cargo ship that was previously owned by a North Korean business. The ship registered itself as South Korean when it traveled through the Suez canal and docked at the Syrian port Tartous on July 28. It returned on September 3, when it was said to have unloaded cement. Records do not indicate where the vessel is as of September 17.
see more on Wikipedia
On September 13 The Washington Post reported that U.S. and Israeli intelligence gathered information on a nuclear facility constructed in Syria with North Korean aid, and that the target was a ""facility capable of making unconventional weapons"". According to The Sunday Times, the target was a cache of nuclear materials from North Korea. A North Korean ship had docked in Syria just a few days earlier, and after the strike North Korea publicly condemned the raid; North Korea rarely comments on international events. The ship was later identified as the Al Hamed, a 1,700-tonne cargo ship that was previously owned by a North Korean business. The ship registered itself as South Korean when it traveled through the Suez canal and docked at the Syrian port Tartous on July 28. It returned on September 3, when it was said to have unloaded cement. Records do not indicate where the vessel is as of September 17.
see more on Wikipedia
No comments on this question yet.
