Syria has shown up in the news again.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_10.html
“Syrian technicians accompanying unknown equipment were killed in the train explosion in North Korea on April 22, according to a report in a Japanese newspaper…
The source said North Korean military personnel with protective suits responded to the scene soon after the explosion and removed material only from the Syrians' section of the train.”
anyone wanna guess what the material was? I have my suspicions, and I'm sure others have theirs as well, but it's not sounding good. After the chemical attack that was foiled by the Jordanians (the chemical weapons that are estimated to have been able to kill upwards of 80,000 people in Amman came into Jordan from Syria) and Syria's refusal to shut down their border with Iraq and general pig-headedness in the war on terror (which is why they are currently under sanctions from the US) I'm afraid that all of these things are related.
Sure, we knew to begin with that Syria was a problem. It's just becoming more and more obvious that they're a bigger problem than was at first apparent. In all likelihood, Syria received what of Saddam's WMD programs the Coalition hasn't found in Iraq (the CIA suspects this, and various other intelligence agencies support the theory, but there's not enough conclusive proof yet to justify confronting them about it).
Just a note to cheer everyone up.