[edpc]

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.

[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.