Pretty much the first thing i do when i wake up in the morning is check all the various major national and international newspapers. Alot happens in the 8 or so hours that you sleep and because the internet is a 24 hour party much of the websites are updated and what you read last night isn't necessarily going to be front page news anymore.
Opening up the New York Times, this was the most updated story:
Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.
You may remember that in early September I noted the attack by Israel on Syria was extraordinarily suspicious due to the silence from all sides of the equation. The Israeli's had a media blackout, the Syrians were making a very quiet protest, the Americans were keeping mum and there was absolutely no condemnation from any Arab state even Iran. Obviously not everyone is happy about a nuclear Syria (ditto with a nuclear Iran).
It seems that Israel is recovering it's deterrent powers since the war against Hezbollah last year. I imagine that this sort of story is one that i'll be reporting on for years to come.
What a great time to start a blog :-)
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