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Report: Syria blast killed nuke plan officer By Yoav Stern Syria has resumed its nuclear program, and last week's car bombing in Damascus, which killed 17 people, was aimed at a senior official involved in that program, an Arabic-language newspaper cited senior Israeli military officials as saying yesterday. The Israeli officials also said that Jerusalem would use force to halt the program's progress, the London-based Asharq Al Awsat reported. Advertisement The paper quoted the Israelis as saying that Syria is following the Iranian model by spreading its nuclear development among several sites. The program is based on knowledge obtained from North Korea, the report added, and a team of North Korean nuclear experts visited Syria recently to help with the project. The Israeli officials said that the blast was intended for a colonel in the Syrian army who is involved with the nuclear program, and, in addition, hinted that a string of attacks in Syria stemmed from the fact that this program had "crossed a red line." As examples of such attacks, they reportedly cited last year's aerial bombing of a suspected nuclear facility in Syria, which the foreign press attributed to Israel, and the assassination several weeks ago of a senior Syrian security official, Gen. Mohammed Suleiman, in Tartus. Neither Israeli nor Syrian officials have yet commented on the report. The Syrian government has said that Saturday's car bombing was the work of a suicide bomber. The official Syrian news agency SANA reported that the perpetrators were familiar to authorities and were affiliated with radical Islamic organizations. Nonetheless, the casualty list from the blast has yet to be released. Syrian opposition groups reported that the dead included a Syrian army colonel, and that the attack took place near the "Palestine branch" of Syrian intelligence. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Forgotten peace French FM: I fear distracted world may forget Mideast peace process. Settlers vs. Shin Bet Daniela Weiss: Shin Bet behind attack on left-wing advocate prof. Sternhell

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