Bomb, bomb... 
Iran!
Bomb, bomb, bomb--
Bomb, bomb... 
Iran!
Bomb, bomb... 
Iran--
As fast as we can!
BUMP
Posted on 10/25/2007 2:54:59 PM PDT by waimea.man
New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Because Assad brought it down with shaped charges! “
Do you mean Asad? The President of Syria?
Just pokin fun at our 9/11 truthers.
” A 2,000 lb laser guided bomb only leaves one crater.”
Just 1 bomb was dropped? They fly that far into Syrian airspace with just 1 plane just to drop 1 bomb? Not very likely. The site is about 1000 miles from the northern tip of Israel, one way. A couple hour flight each way. 1 plane and 1 bomb? No way.
Went right over my balding head!
bttt
Thx.
I guess I could fake being stunned? You?
IDF lifts censorship of Sept. 6 IAF strike on target inside Syria
mark for reference...and atta boy Israel.
Bomb, bomb... Iran!
Bomb, bomb, bomb--
Bomb, bomb... Iran!
Bomb, bomb... Iran--
As fast as we can!
BUMP
Meh...
...I’m still trying to squeeze out a “hmmm”.
Foxnews has had a couple of little video clips on the News Shows...Pike was on Britts show I think...
Keyword list of Freerepublic threads on the Sept 6, 2007 IAF Attack on Syria ..Possible NUKES ....
Syria 'air strike site removed'
By Jonathan Marcus
BBC diplomatic correspondent 
Newly-released satellite images of the presumed site of an Israeli air raid on Syria last month show that a large building has been completely removed.
Israel has admitted its jets attacked a Syrian target on 6 September
The independent US research group, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), obtained and analysed the photographs.
The industrial-style building may have been a nuclear reactor under construction, says the ISIS.
Syria says it never had any plans to build a nuclear reactor.
The images suggest that, for whatever reason, the Syrian authorities have gone to great length to remove any trace of the facility.
Image comparison
Just a few days ago the ISIS released satellite images of a facility in northern Syria that it believed was the target of an Israeli air strike on 6 September.
The images pre-dated the attack.
But they showed both a large industrial building and a pumping station near the Euphrates river that the organisation believed could well have been a nuclear reactor under construction.
The images, though, were far from conclusive.
Now the ISIS has come up with a more recent image of the same site taken on 24 October, more than six weeks after the alleged air attack.
The image shows that the suspected reactor building has been completely removed and the ground scraped clean.
In its report, the ISIS says that a comparison of the before and after images effectively confirms that this site was indeed the target of the Israel raid.
It argues that "dismantling and removing the building at such a rapid pace dramatically complicates any inspection of the facilities and suggests that Syria may be trying to hide what was there."
The ISIS report also raises the question as to whether Syria might be in breach of its safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Under that, it would have an obligation to notify the UN's nuclear watchdog of any plans to construct a new nuclear facility.
by Jonathan Marcus
Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News
Things that do not happen are sometimes as vital as actual events to understand what is really going on.
Israel has admitted its jets attacked a Syrian target on September 6
In one of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases, the crime was solved by a vital clue - the dog that did not bark in the night.
And in the real-life drama of the Israeli Air Force's raid on a target in Syria last month, there are two particular "dogs" that have not barked.
For all of its protests the Syrian government has done as little as possible to play up the incident.
There have been no trips for journalists to visit the bomb craters, no orchestrated campaign to condemn Israel for what in any other circumstances would be seen as an unwarranted act of aggression.
In the United States the diplomatic effort to engage North Korea and roll back its nuclear programme has remained on track, despite all the suggestions that what the Israelis actually hit was a North Korean-supplied nuclear research facility in Syria.
Wall of silence
Indeed there are indications that North Korean scientists and technicians may have been killed or wounded in the attack.
North Korea's involvement in spreading nuclear technology and know-how might, in most circumstances, be expected to draw strong condemnation from Washington.
More than four weeks after the air strike during the early hours of 6 September, hard facts about the operation remain scarce.
There are indications that North Korean scientists may have been killed in the attack 
In Israel the episode has been surrounded by an unusually high degree of military censorship.
Pundits and military experts who profess to know many of the details of the operation are saying nothing.
The leader of Israel's conservative Likud opposition party, Binyamin Netanyahu, was the first to break the wall of silence.
His apparent confirmation of an Israeli operation against a Syrian target drew considerable criticism from his political opponents.
At the end of last month Syrian Vice-President Farouk Ashara said the target attacked by the warplanes was "an academic research centre for the study of arid soil".
Subsequently Syrian President Basher al-Assad had a different story, telling the BBC that the target was "an unused military building".
This acknowledgement that an attack really did take place seems to have opened the way for a partial lifting of the censorship restrictions in Israel, with confirmation of the raid but still no details about the target, the nature of the forces involved, or any assessment of its success.
American leaks
Much of the reporting of this story has come through unattributed leaks in the US press.
There have been suggestions that Israel delayed the operation at Washington's request and reports that Israel sent soil samples from the location to the US for analysis, as proof of their contention of a nuclear connection.
These reports amplify earlier suggestions that elite Israeli troops were present on the ground as part of the operation.
Most recently, reports in The New York Times speak of divisions within the Bush administration, with contrasting views as to the significance of the intelligence the Israelis had provided.
The administration, says the report, was divided along predictable fault lines with Vice-President Dick Cheney and "conservative hawks" in the Administration believing that the Israeli intelligence was credible and should prompt a reassessment of Washington's opening to North Korea.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates were said to be much more cautious.
Deterrent capability restored
Either way the operation clearly went ahead.
That it did so at a time of escalating Israeli-Syrian tension is indicative in itself.
Either the Israelis believed that the stakes were so high and the intelligence so strong that the risks were worth it.
Or alternatively they may have taken the view that such an operation was the best way of reminding President Assad that Israel's military reach had not been stunted by its failures in southern Lebanon last year.
Some days after the operation, Israeli Defence Forces Intelligence chief General Amos Yadlin made a statement to the effect that Israel's deterrent capability had been restored.
Or maybe he did not, because an official denial of his comments was subsequently released. Did he bark or maybe should he have remained silent?
Thanks for the ping. I gotta head out for work.
Yes. Did you also notice that a big chunk of the plateau to the right of the building is also simply gone?...
From the shadows it looks like they deeply buried the whole site under the dirt and rock removed from the edge of that plateau.
Yes. They literally moved a mountain to cover it.
Why not? It wasn't the target, why waste resources on a a pump plant?
Where are the other bombing craters?
The joys of precision guided munitions. All killer, no filler.
Something is wrong with this picture!
Maybe. Maybe not...
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