AP Exclusive: New Signs Of Syria-Pakistan Nuke Tie

AP via Breitbart ^ | 1 Nov 2011 | Desmond Butler & George Jahn

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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

The buildings in northwest Syria closely match the design of a uranium enrichment plant provided to Libya when Moammar Gadhafi was trying to build nuclear weapons under Khan's guidance, officials told The Associated Press.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency also has obtained correspondence between Khan and a Syrian government official, Muhidin Issa, who proposed scientific cooperation and a visit to Khan's laboratories following Pakistan's successful nuclear test in 1998.

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The complex, in the city of Al-Hasakah, now appears to be a cotton-spinning plant, and investigators have found no sign that it was ever used for nuclear production. But given that Israeli warplanes destroyed a suspected plutonium production reactor in Syria in 2007, the unlikely coincidence in design suggests Syria may have been pursuing two routes to an atomic bomb: uranium as well as plutonium.

Just like their Iranian sponsors and North Korean technical advisors. How interesting.

[iopscusa]

All the tyrants need to Nuke it up if they want to survive thanks to the idiots @ NATO and Obama’s R2R re Libya.

[scooby321]

Bush’s fault. So will be Libya under Al Queda rule.

[Steely Tom]

When I saw the headline, I thought the story would describe a new fashion craze in Syria: high government officials wearing neckties bearing an impression of a mushroom cloud rising over Pakistan.

[driftdiver]

Oh good another opportunity for BO to exercise his foreign relations experience.

[gandalftb]

The site is currently being used at least in part as a spinning factory here at:

36°30’33.99″N, 40°46’34.75″E

http://www.hasakaspin.com/

Here is the Syrian Army Base just down the road:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Al+Hasakah,+Syria&hl=en&ll=36.545311,40.849657&spn=0.014463,0.027466&geocode=FQuBKwId84JuAg&hnear=Al+Hasakah,+Syria&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6

This location has been of interest since Al-Kibar because of the heavy security around the plant.

[aces]

Our touchy feely crap only plays into their hands, yea we were nice all the way up to the nuke going off...what did that get us...aw hell just declare Islam a POS religion in the gutter, which has been denied as a faith by Christ himself..and Islam needs to be irradicated from the earth..