Posted on 10/16/2007 10:51:56 PM PDT by camerakid400
In its first official admission by a state official, Syria confirmed that an air raid carried out by Israeli fighter jets deep in Syrian territory on September 6 was, indeed, an attack on a Syrian nuclear facility, Israel Radio reported Wednesday morning.
A Syrian envoy disclosed the nature if the target during a meeting of a UN committee where Israeli envoys were also present.
A senior source in the Foreign Ministry confirmed the statement made in New York by the Syrian official.
Since first announcing on September 6 that an incursion into Syrian airspace by IAF jets took place, Syria veered between attempts to muster international condemnation of Israel on the one hand and efforts by Damascus to blur the nature and purpose of the facility attacked on the other hand.
Several weeks after the strike, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a BBC interview that the target hit by the Israeli Air Force was a building in an abandoned military base.
But several days before Assad interview, a Syrian "agricultural research center" in the area of the strike independently invited foreign journalists to visit the site, as proof that Israeli missiles missed their target.
Israel continues to keep mum on the affair, and the only information cleared by the military censor for publication was the fact that a strike took place; any other morsel of information published in Israel continues to be accompanied by the phrase "according to foreign media outlets."
Israeli analysts estimated that the government's decision not to disclose information about the strike was intended to avoid embarrassing Assad's regime, in the hope that silence on Israel's side could prevent the tension between the two countries from escalating into all-out war.
What IF it wasn't a North Korean supplied nuke facility Israeli hit....but a RUSSIAN built one.
The Israeli commandos were sent in to confirm it....
You wouldn’t hear about it...and probably never will, but it did happen...
"The next question is, where did Syria get the materials from?
My guess - Iran or North Korea."
The notion that Saddam before the 2003 invasion had nuclear weapons moved to Syria is of course rejected without further question.
One day, we may know. More than one of their leaders has said the very same thing.
It was a joint op...Israel and USA...
I suspect this is disinfo. Those that know won’t talk; those that talk don’t know. Just a hunch.
There is more to be gained in silence, frankly. It is scarier.
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What if the material came from the USA during the clinton administration? That would certainly make all parties involved very very quiet. WOULDN’T IT? Even the UN wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot tall hans blix.
Am I paranoid, or am I just insane? My head is spinning.
That would be one hell of an October Surprise for the Krintons, eh?
Now why would you think they turned them around? Think about it...timing...I suspect they were close...between the President and the Israeli Leader...they were turned back...
Bush HAS NO DESIRE to serve another term. He can’t wait till he gets the ‘hell out of dodge.’
Said by who?
I’d treat that bit with some firm skepticism.
May simply be disinformation.
That’s probably the least likely possibility.
Other impression I've had is Nutjob is our plant. He just acts too crazy to be a true Persian.
Give us your synopsis.
Yes, I did. ...Realized my error as soon as I hit the ‘post’ button, but I figured most people with a clue (like you, for example!) would figure it out.
FRegards,
LH
That’s what i had read too..The Israelis were tracking the NK ship carrying the material up through the Red Sea
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