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Syria admits: Target hit by IAF jets was a nuclear facility
Jerusalem Post ^ | October 17, 2007

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: 200709; 20070906; airstrikes; iaf; israel; sept06; sept6; sept62007; syria; syriannukes; syrianraid; wmd
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To: jeffers; Southack; Cap Huff; txflake; shield; bert
You know how we are all trying to guess what Bibi's aide meant by the world would be stunned.

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....

41 posted on 10/17/2007 4:53:15 PM PDT by Dog
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To: txflake

You wouldn’t hear about it...and probably never will, but it did happen...


42 posted on 10/17/2007 5:36:05 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Spktyr

"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.


43 posted on 10/17/2007 5:40:25 PM PDT by Radix (When I became a man, I put away childish things)
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To: Dog

One day, we may know. More than one of their leaders has said the very same thing.


44 posted on 10/17/2007 5:42:07 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: NRA2BFree

It was a joint op...Israel and USA...


45 posted on 10/17/2007 5:44:00 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: camerakid400

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.

F


46 posted on 10/17/2007 5:45:09 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: Dog

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.


47 posted on 10/17/2007 5:58:30 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: shield
I wonder how far they got before before we turned them around. I wonder why we turned them around.
48 posted on 10/17/2007 6:03:22 PM PDT by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: mamelukesabre

That would be one hell of an October Surprise for the Krintons, eh?


49 posted on 10/17/2007 6:08:03 PM PDT by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: txflake
Yeah, it would also give bush the impetus to try pulling an FDR and go for a third term. Then the bush bashers would really go nuts. We really would be a mirror of the roman empire at that point. All hail jorge caesar, emperor of the north american union and defender of the west from the barbarian hordes of the middle east.

Ok, I've been getting by with too little sleep for too long. I'm gonna treat myself to some real food and go to bed early for a change.
50 posted on 10/17/2007 6:20:24 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Spktyr
( The next question is, where did Syria get the materials from? )
My guess - Iran or North Korea.

Would it be a far stretch to think that it could have come from Russia or China ?
Then again, they said they tracked a ship from North Korea.
51 posted on 10/17/2007 6:34:14 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: txflake

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...


52 posted on 10/17/2007 6:37:23 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: ari-freedom
" Negotiate! " No

The Democrats plotting and scheming with the enemy to destroy Israel and America, YES
53 posted on 10/17/2007 6:39:20 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: mamelukesabre

Bush HAS NO DESIRE to serve another term. He can’t wait till he gets the ‘hell out of dodge.’


54 posted on 10/17/2007 6:47:54 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: shield

Said by who?

I’d treat that bit with some firm skepticism.

May simply be disinformation.


55 posted on 10/17/2007 7:39:48 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: mamelukesabre
Too much wasabi in your tuna roll.

That’s probably the least likely possibility.

56 posted on 10/17/2007 7:43:36 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: shield
My impression is W wants a bloodless coup with Iran.

Other impression I've had is Nutjob is our plant. He just acts too crazy to be a true Persian.

57 posted on 10/17/2007 7:56:03 PM PDT by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: El Sordo

Give us your synopsis.


58 posted on 10/17/2007 7:56:51 PM PDT by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: UCANSEE2

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


59 posted on 10/17/2007 7:58:36 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Kozak

That’s what i had read too..The Israelis were tracking the NK ship carrying the material up through the Red Sea


60 posted on 10/17/2007 8:03:18 PM PDT by billmor
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