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The Weekly Standard just published "Syria's Nuclear Impunity," an article that I co-wrote with Jamie M. Fly, executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI):
Syria's Nuclear ImpunityBashar al-Assad's lengthening rap sheet.
By Jamie M. Fly and Robert Zarate
The Weekly Standard
June 6, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 36
Contrary to what the Obama administration might hope, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is no reformer. Even with the Syrian government's murderous crackdown against its unarmed opposition, the White House is not getting the message. Yet Assad's true colors should have been plainly obvious at least as far back as September 2007, when an Israeli airstrike destroyed the secret Al Kibar nuclear facility near the Syrian town of Deir al Zour. Built with North Korean assistance, Al Kibar was a plutonium-producing reactor that, once completed, could have been used to generate fissile material for nuclear weapons....
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Robert at May 28, 2011 6:13 PM