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</html><description>Today both the LA Times and The Wall Street Journal, which places the story on the front page,&nbsp;explain that the CIA is going to tell US lawmakers that it believes Syria&nbsp;was developing a reactor that would be&nbsp;capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons but was destroyed before it could do so.&nbsp;&nbsp;But as Jay Solomon wrote [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43015000/gif/_43015367_israel_golan_map203.gif</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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