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US Blacklists Syrian Outfits Over WMD Charges
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007 The US government Thursday put the financial squeeze on three Syrian government organizations which it accused of spreading weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Treasury Department said it was blacklisting Syria's Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Electronics Institute, and the National Standards and Calibration Laboratory. Under a presidential directive, any US assets held by the three bodies are now frozen and Americans are banned from conducting transactions with them. "Syria is using official government organizations to develop non-conventional weapons and the missiles to deliver them," said Stuart Levey, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. "We will continue to take action to prevent such state-sponsored WMD proliferators from using the international financial system," he said in a statement. According to the Treasury, all three are subordinates of the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), which was blacklisted by Washington in June 2005. "SSRC is the Syrian government agency responsible for developing and producing non-conventional weapons and the missiles to deliver them," the Treasury statement said. "SSRC also has an overtly promoted civilian research function; however, its activities focus substantively on the development of biological and chemical weapons."
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Is There A Power Shift In North Korea Underway
Seoul (UPI) Jan 04, 2007Will North Korean leader Kim Jong Il bring a change to the country's power structure dominated by aged revolutionary leaders in their 70s or 80s? This is the question of the moment following the death of the country's Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun at age of 78. But possibility seems not so high because Kim has heavily relied on aged revolutionary leaders who helped him inherit his father's leadership in the communist world's first dynastic power transfer. |
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