McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reports that Rice and Gates are headed to Moscow to discuss missile defense deployments in Europe, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and, my favorite, extending the verification provisions of the START treaty: Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on a rare joint mission to …
Dimona Lookin all Pretty on Google Earth
by | 2007-10-10 | 2 Comments
After looking at low-res blurs for years, now you can count the cars in the Dimona parking lot. Granted they were probably there a year or two ago, but this is still cool. The latest update of Google Earth has some fun new images of Israeli sites. To find the nuclear reactor, search for the …
Syrian Plutonium?
by | 2007-10-09 | 21 Comments
Jim Hoagland claims a “senior official” says the Israelis struck a “facility … to produce plutonium”: But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may have been intended to produce plutonium, according to a senior official with access to those …
Still Scuds
by | 2007-10-06 | 11 Comments
Regular readers know that, following the lead of the estimable Chris Nelson, I am sticking with explanation that what Israeli struck in Syria was a Scud shipment. Now, Laura Rozen helpfully posts 273 words of a 290 word story by Intelligence Online, claiming that the mystery target of the Israel raid was … wait for …
