Alarm is now spreading about the Syrian facility that was bombed by Israel on September 5.  Israeli  jets, along with Special Forces, an electronic countermeasures plane, and possibly a human spy planted inside the bombed facility, were able to identify the facility as a North Korean reactor, similar to the one that produced plutonium at Byong Yon --- which the NoKos have now promised solemnly to dismantle in return for lots of goodies. If the NoKo-style plant in Syria was a reactor, the speculation is that it would be some time from going critical. But a shipment of North Korean "cement" arrived a few days before the raid. The alarm that is now spreading suggests that the shipment involved fissionable material. According to British and US sources, this was a close call --- too close for just a reactor under construction. In an article titled, "How close were we to a third world war?" the Sunday Herald of Scotland quotes a "Senior British...(Read Full Post)