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Nuclear site in Syria, says US

Anglosphere

What could it be, a nuclear site or military facility? The US says one thing, Syria another.

"Is it logical for a nuclear site to be left without protection and not guarded by anti-aircraft guns?" Assad told the Qatari newspaper Al-Watan.

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He reiterated that the site destroyed by the Israelis was "a Syrian military position under construction and not a nuclear reactor."

No, it is not very logical for a nuclear site to be left without protection and not guarded by anti-aircraft guns. It is however still a lot more logical than a military facility to be left without protection and not guarded by anti-aircraft guns.

Syria and Iran behind Hezbollah kidnappings?

Anglosphere

It has been speculated before, but now Lebanon itself joins the ranks of those who hint Syria and Iran may have directed Hezbollah to attack Israel:

Jumblatt is the head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party and is largely considered the most prominent anti-Syrian Lebanese politician.

He said he saw the fingerprints of Iran and Syria on Hezbollah's actions the past few days.

There is of course no significant news value in this statement. Hezbollah has obvious ties to Iran through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and that Syria has been pulling strings in Lebanon is not exactly on the of the best kept secrets in the world either.

Cartoon wars

European Union

I haven't mentioned the cartoon wars yet but I can no longer resist. Italian minister Calderoni had to resign for wearing a shirt featuring one of the cartoons. It upsets me EU politicians can't express themselves because a minority of radicals are being funded to riot by Arab tirans from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran. The majority of Muslims doesn't care about the cartoons and in fact embrace freedom of speech. So why give in to these extremists? Do better than this, EU!

Syria after all?

European Union

Dutch authorities investigate a Syrian man who has been in contact with four suspects of the Van Gogh murder.

Justice authorities allege the Syrian is the axis of several terrorist cells believed to be active in the Netherlands. Besides the Van Gogh murder, the man is also accused of two other crimes.

If the presence of actual terrorist cells proves to be true, the left can no longer hide behind a desire to have a dialogue with the Muslim community in the Netherlands. It is an inconsistent view in the first place: the left tries to accuse the right of racism while singling out the Muslim community for dialogue themselves. While all the evidence points toward the theory that terrorist cells operate without support of or interaction with the actual Muslim community.

No further links have been established, but I sort of hope that there will be some more, hopefully linking to terrorist movements present in Syria itself. A foreign source of terrorism by an already suspicious country would be easier to deal with than terrorism that appears in Europe out of the blue. It would also help distinguishing between radical extremists and European Muslims.

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