Posted on 05/24/2019 5:19:18 AM PDT by SJackson
In 2014, during the Syrian civil war, ISIS occupied a site in the Syrian desert which once held a nuclear weapons facility. It reportedly had been built for the Syrians with North Korean help. If that reactor had been there, ISIS might have had a capability to inflict terrifyingly massive casualties.
However, seven years earlier, in September 2007, Israel launched a secret air attack against this obscure site in the Syrian desert called Deir ez-Zoir. The reactor building was called al Kibar.
Without that Israeli destruction of this Syrian-North Korean project, the world possibly would have had to deal with a nuclear-armed ISIS and become a much more dangerous place.
The amazing story of how the Israelis discovered the secret site, figured out it was a nuclear reactor, connected the North Koreans to the project, and then decided to destroy it is a non-fiction story worthy of Daniel Silva’s great novels.
Yaakov Katz, editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post, has spent years pulling together the Israeli, American, Syrian, and North Korean pieces of this amazing story. His book, Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power is one of the most compelling stories I have read in a long time.
The Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, had picked a remote, obscure, and unnoticed part of the Syrian desert to set up a bold (and illegal) project with the help of North Koreans. To this day we do not know if the North Koreans were building a reactor for the Syrians or if the Syrians were allowing the North Koreans to build a reactor for themselves with the payment to Syria being a few nuclear bombs once the reactor was up and running.
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And Desert Storm was greatly simplified by not having to face a nuclear Sadaam. In both cases, Sadaam and Assad, Israel was roundly criticized by the administration in power in the US. And elsewhere. Arab dictators with nuclear arms, not a big risk, is it?
You will find many Rats who actually beleive that it’s wrong that we have nukes but these insane people don’t.
The best defense is often the best offense.
“The amazing story of how the Israelis discovered the secret site, figured out it was a nuclear reactor”
I would hope we have the capability to locate things like this. Seems like it would have a unique signature.
36 Years Ago today, “Operation Opera”: The Israeli Air Strike on an Iraqi Nuclear Reactor.
The Aviationist ^ | Jun 07 2017 | Tom Demerly
Posted on 6/9/2017, 12:05:09 AM by sukhoi-30mki
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3559325/posts
On a much lesser scale, and it might be an Urban Legend, there was documentary on the 1967 War that told about an Israeli spy they had in Syria.
One of the many things he did, was to suggest that the Syrian artillery positions on the Golan Heights have trees planted around them to protect the troops from the heat. Years later, when the War started, the Israelis shelled the hell out of any grove of trees up there and took out a lot of guns.
We do! The laws of physics produce energies that cannot be totally hidden or camouflaged! We just need people who can apply this science who are loyal to the US and they’re hard to find!
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