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Sept. 21, 2007 (LPAC)--The claims, as leaked from the National Security Council to the Washington Post last week, that the U.S. has "new information" showing Syrian nuclear sites--is pure Israeli disinformation, reported a well-informed U.S. intelligence source to EIR. There is no independent intelligence or images that the U.S. has, as to Syrian nuclear sites, the source said, citing the false statement today in the Post that the United States is "believed to have provided Israel with some corroboration of the original intelligence."

This is not true, said the source, and is especially dangerous because the Republican party--and some Democrats--now consider the report of Syrian/North Korea cooperation on a secret nuclear program to be an article of faith. This is a repeat of the lies about Iraqi 'weapons of mass destruction', that were hoked up through neo-conservative channels in Israel, to Prime Minister Tony Blair's office in Britain, and into the U.S.

The source drew special attention to the Sept. 13 report in the Washington Post which said "The new information, particularly images received in the past 30 days, has been restricted to a few senior officials under the instructions of national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, leaving many in the intelligence community unaware of it or uncertain of its significance." This "intelligence" is a fraud, said the source.