Posted on 08/19/2026 6:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ahmed al-Sharaa – Montage Image Wiki Commons A former al-Qaida terrorist is now sitting on a treasure trove of nuclear material that can be weaponized.
A United Nations team has excavated a ‘previously undisclosed site’ in Syria and found several tons of nuclear material from the days of the Bashar al-Assad rule.
The agreed plan was for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove the material from Syria – but that’s not what’s going to happen, anymore.
Syria is now holding the nuclear material, and refuses the handover, saying ‘it will remain under IAEA safeguards for peaceful civilian use’.
The Telegraph reported:
“Rafael Grossi, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Tuesday that ‘tons of nuclear materials that could be put to bad use’ had been found at the site, dating from the time of Syria’s authoritarian Assad government.
‘After your courageous decision to inform us that there was another place, another site where nuclear material had been stored, we were able to access this place’, Mr. Grossi said during a press conference with Asaad al-Shaibani, Syria’s foreign minister, in Damascus. ‘We are talking about a few tons of nuclear material that could be put to bad use’.
The IAEA had previously said it was preparing to remove the nuclear material, left over from the era of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown by a coalition of rebels in 2024. They now form the Syrian government.
However, Mr. Shaibani said the nuclear material was not dangerous and would remain in Syrian custody, subject to IAEA guarantees, adding that Syria had the right to use it for civil and peaceful purposes.”
Associated Press reported:
“Under former President Bashar Assad, Syria was believed to have operated an extensive undeclared nuclear program that included a nuclear reactor built by North Korea in eastern Deir el-Zour province.
Syria under Assad allowed IAEA inspectors to visit some sites, but the country under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has pledged full cooperation with the UN watchdog and given its inspectors access to suspected nuclear sites.
‘Myself and my team, we were inside the site of Deir el-Zour, where very comprehensive work of excavation and exploration is taking place now’, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi said at a news conference in Damascus.”
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WMD in Syria? How did they get there?? Where did they come from??
great, more muslims with nuclear material, just what the world needs.
But Trump loves this terrorist piece of sh*t for some reason.
One of the rumors back in the Iraq War was that Saddam Hussein took them to Syria but Assad would not take Saddam in......................
Perhaps some of the materials were trucked in from Iraq in a convoy detected about 25 years ago. Before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
It’s only a matter of time before some muzzie crazies pop a nuke in a Western country.
Iran would without hesitation.................
Perhaps why Turkey is more involved in Syria.
1990s Iraq is my first thought.
But Trump loves this terrorist piece of sh*t for some reason.
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I’m not sure what to make of Trump’s approach to Muslims. It appears his attitude is that Muslims are just like any other human being he does business with. You could call this being the eternal optimist, believing that you can deal with Muslims the same as with any other ethnicity. Unfortunately, Muslims will always align themselves with each other and their Quranic beliefs. This means they have to be dealt with as our enemy because they mean to kill all kāfers, which means all non-believers of Islam.
In Bizzaro World the head chopping jihadi put in charge of Syria allows full IAEA inspector access to suspected nuclear sites, and 'democratic' Israel does not.
It seems the bandwagon is already rolling, so I will get on board. It’s part of the WMD program that Saddam Hussein never had.
All this shit got started when Jimmy Carter allowed the Ayatollah to take over Iran.
Those of us who haven't had our brains washed by Big Government and Big Media remember ...
We remember Hapless Hans Blix. We remember his "mission" to inspect suspected WMD sited in Iraq. We remember how Saddam Hussein's goons kept Hapless Hans cooling his heels at the front gate of each site, while a convoy of trucks drove out the back gate. We remember that said convoys of trucks headed to Syria.
One plus One equals Two.
Try telling that to all the allies of Islamic Terrorism that have infiltrated FR.
To them, 1+1=the problem is Jews.
I remember that. I guess it was a better media story that W just got duped and the war was pointless.
The media wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them on the ass . . . BECAUSE THEY NEVER LOOK. They prefer to just make things up!!!!
Saddam put them there.
Pearls.
Swine.
Seems to me a Jewish guy once had something to say about that ...
Keep our fingers crossed that the US buys the Uranium. Second best confiscates the Uranium (with Israel’s help). Third best if possible, military action renders the Uranium inaccessible.
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