Posted on 11/26/2007 6:09:33 PM PST by dervish
Ten weeks have passed since the Israel Air Force attacked in Syria, and there is still no reliable information about the precise target that was destroyed, or about the importance and necessity of the attack. Since Israel keeps maintaining its veil of secrecy, Everything that is known comes from leaks by anonymous U.S. administration officials to several of the major American media outlets. What is almost certain, judging from the leaks, are the following facts: A nuclear site built by the Syrians was attacked, and there was some connection to know-how and technology transferred from North Korea. The prevailing assumption is that it was a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor that was in stages of construction, that would have enabled Syria to produce plutonium to manufacture a nuclear bomb.
This assumption relies first and foremost on an analysis by scholar David Albright, director of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington (ISIS). Albright was part of the United Nations supervisory unit in Iraq that searched for weapons of mass destruction.
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Albright's assessments, which hold that what was attacked in Syria was a nuclear reactor, have become almost an authoritative voice. They have been unreservedly adopted all over the world, Israeli media included.
But Prof. Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University is challenging them here for the first time.
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"In my estimation this was something very nasty and vicious, and even more dangerous than a reactor," says Even. "I have no information, only an assessment, but I suspect that it was a plant for processing plutonium, namely a factory for assembling the bomb."
In other words, Syria already had several kilograms of plutonium, and it was involved in building a bomb factory (the assembling of one bomb requires about four kilograms of fissionable material).
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(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Hopefully, the US assets were watching both the Iranians and North Koreans closely and any ship from North Korea, even if re-flagged, would have been closely monitored. By shipping to Syria and actually launching the packages from Syria, the Iranians can claim complete innocence. Worse case for Iranians then is that Syria would get nuked in retaliation. North Korean would be busy negotiating in good faith and wondering how those Syrians progressed so quickly.
Another benefit of waiting is the net was widened: that NK ship stopped in Eqypt and Lebanon before continuing on to Tartous.
Jinx, I owe you a coke!
All of this just raises more questions about why on Earth is Syria allowed to be brought in on this Annapolis ‘Peace’ with Israel schrade?
I don’t get why America (Condi, Bush, State Dept.) believes for a minute that any Arab country would be trustworthy or actually wants Israel to exist as a nation at all.
I know this is tin-foil hat stuff, but what would happen if Annapolis gets nuked in the next couple of days?
I don't see any damage in them.
Paul
The same site, at different zooms.
Are there any “after” pics?
Just curious. Thanks
“By waiting we caught NK red-handed.”
Assuming this is true (and I tend to disbelieve it based on many factors), what are we doing now in the six party talks?
Those pictures are not of the site in Syria that was bombed.
I think there was one or more that were levelled, waiting for sat confirmation.
True. But potentially getting Plutonium into the hands of the worlds worse terrorist organizations sure has to end up being worth the price. Time will tell, I guess.
There are currently riots in some parts of the Middle East as terrorists call their leaders who went to Annapolis, 'traitors'. Just watching the world news is kinda scary nowadays. The rest of the world seems to be either rioting or on the verge. Nuclear proliferation is the last thing we need to add into that mix. My guess is the leaders meeting in Annapolis might not want to go to their home countries anytime soon. Especially since there may be loose plutonium in Egypt/Lebanon and the Israelis just went 'All In' on the poker table with their strike on Syria. GWB and the Globalist Rino herd might just get lucky in this kinda-of-a-situation, but I doubt it.
I've slept like a baby since 9/6, knowing that our massive show of capability has MADded the region.
Also shows that when it needs to be kept ‘secret’, it is kept secret.
There are more ‘secrets’ and we will know about them, after the fact. Those who worry so much about why Condi is or isn’t doing such and such, or Bush, or the Israeli’s, just need to be more patient.
Sleep soundly, my friend.
To everyone else: No sense in worrying. Worry won’t solve a thing. Just be ‘aware’, and ‘patient’.
The site your pictures showed was purported to be the network center for the “impenetrable” Syrian air defense system newly purchased from the Russians. That site in Northern Syria was bombed and brought down the whole system, allowing the strike on the site in the article. It was the bombing of the pictured site that was supposed to have caused the overflight through Turkey to get at it, since it had to be knocked out before overflights of Syria could safely occur.
Every one of them should be in prison for their leaks too. If our government is to take national security seriously at all, people need to start going to prison for intentionally leaking classified info.
I'm wondering if there is anyone left in Washington who gives a damn about the future of this nation.
Turning around radical Islam in eight years is something that no one else can claim, in a thousand years, since Martel.
Reagan destroyed Communism, W is destroying Islamism.
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