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I?m a big fan of the Proliferation Security Initiative, which I think will go down as a great diplomatic and security success of the Bush administration (and of John Bolton, who gets much of the credit for setting it up). The problem with the PSI is that it?s supposed to be secret. When it works right, and a boatload of plutonium or guidance systems or rocket fuel gets pinched because a country called Crimestoppers, you and I don?t even hear about it.
Occasionally, PSI news slips out. And today we have another one in the ?win? column for the PSI:
?One example of its [the PSI?s] success occurred in February 2007, when four nations represented in this room worked together to interdict equipment bound for Syria - equipment that could have been used to test ballistic missile components,? Mr Hadley said at a conference to mark PSI?s fifth anniversary. ?Interdictions like this one have been successful all over the world - and have stopped many shipments of sensitive materials destined for Iran, North Korea, and Syria,? he said, providing no further details.
?One example of its [the PSI?s] success occurred in February 2007, when four nations represented in this room worked together to interdict equipment bound for Syria - equipment that could have been used to test ballistic missile components,? Mr Hadley said at a conference to mark PSI?s fifth anniversary.
?Interdictions like this one have been successful all over the world - and have stopped many shipments of sensitive materials destined for Iran, North Korea, and Syria,? he said, providing no further details.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk was on FOX today, mentioning the interception (though downplaying it relative to the Syrian nuclear reactor that Israel bombed.) I notice that he was kind also kind of cagey about where this stuff was coming from, and that FOX didn?t really follow up too hard:
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As I said, there are good reasons for keeping a lot of this stuff secret?but I?d sure like to know where these particular missile-testing doodads were coming from. Is it, for example, a country that Obama wants to open unconditional negotiations with?
Indyk did allude to another one of my favorite topics, A.Q. Khan and the international nuclear bazaar. I?m surprised that this isn?t more of an issue with the Left. Maybe if we start calling them ?Private-Sector Proliferators? their capitalist roots will be exposed, and they?ll start a feeding frenzy?
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