SubscribeShocker: Syria Had Nuclear Site Despite Pelosi
By now you have probably seen the photos from the Israeli air strike against Syria. Here is the report from the amazed New York Times:
Photos show cleansing of suspect Syrian site
Photos Show Cleansing of Suspect Syrian Site
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and MARK MAZZETTI
New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site that Israel bombed last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to have been wiped clean since August, when imagery showed a tall square building there measuring about 150 feet on a side…
“It’s a magic act — here today, gone tomorrow,” said a senior intelligence official. “It doesn’t lower suspicions; it raises them. This was not the long-term decommissioning of a building, which can take a year. It was speedy. It’s incredible that they could have gone to that effort to make something go away.”
Any attempt by Syrian authorities to clean up the site could make it harder for international weapons inspectors to determine the exact nature of the activity there. Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna have said they are analyzing the satellite images and ultimately want to inspect the site in person.
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that this week released a report on the Syrian site, said Thursday that the building’s removal was inherently suspicious.
“It looks like Syria is trying to hide something and destroy the evidence of some activity,” Mr. Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector, said in an interview. “But it won’t work. Syria has got to answer questions about what it was doing.” …
The desolate Syrian site is situated on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River some 90 miles north of the Iraqi border and seven miles north of the desert village of At Tibnah. An airfield lies nearby.
The new images, in addition to revealing the removal of the tall building, show still standing a secondary structure and what could be a pumping station on the Euphrates. Analysts suspect the pumping station was for cooling the reactor.
The building was said by analysts to have been modeled on a design used by the North Koreans, whose building is a few feet larger that the Syrian building that vanished.
Mr. Albright called the Syrian site “consistent with being a North Korean reactor design.”
In an interview last week with The Dallas Morning News, Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, denied that his country was trying to build a reactor.
“There is no Syrian nuclear program whatsoever,” he said. “It’s an absolutely blatant lie.”
Later in the interview he added, “We understand that if Syria even contemplated nuclear technology, then the gates of hell would open on us.” …
The Institute for Science and International Security, Mr. Albright’s group, released a report analyzing the new DigitalGlobe image. The building, it said, had been “completely removed and the ground scraped.”
The comparison of August and October images, it said, “effectively confirms that this site was indeed the target of the Israeli raid” in September.
The report said tractors or bulldozers could be seen where the suspected reactor building once stood, as well as scrape marks on the ground. It added that the dismantling and removal of the building “at such a rapid pace dramatically complicates any inspection of the facilities.”
The report said Syria had an obligation to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency of its decision to construct any new nuclear facility. It added that weapons experts were now debating whether Syria would have violated its safeguards agreement with the agency if it started clandestine work on a nuclear reactor.
Syria signed an agreement with the agency in 1992 and is obligated, the report said, under that accord to report on its nuclear plans and developments to the Vienna agency, which is an arm of the United Nations.
“An important question,” the report said, “is whether Syria may be in violation of its agreements.”
If the atomic energy agency found Syria in violation of its responsibilities, it could refer the matter to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions, as has recently occurred in the case of Iran and its suspected nuclear weapons program.
Mind you, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Keith Ellison, John Kerry, Bill Nelson and Dennis Kucinich have all talked with Mr Assad of Syria, face to face.
In fact, we have “dialogued” with both Syria and North Korea and yet they are still behaving badly.
How is that possible?
Heck, Syria is even obligated to report their nuclear development to the United Nations:
The report said Syria had an obligation to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency of its decision to construct any new nuclear facility. It added that weapons experts were now debating whether Syria would have violated its safeguards agreement with the agency if it started clandestine work on a nuclear reactor…
If the atomic energy agency found Syria in violation of its responsibilities, it could refer the matter to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions, as has recently occurred in the case of Iran and its suspected nuclear weapons program.
Oh, my sides.
Can’t breathe.
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Since its supposed to be a secret, I’ll just whisper this: (go Israel!)
October 26th, 2007 at 10:47 am
I wonder how much of that clearing was done by the Israelis ordnance. This goes to the heart of Liberal philosophy. Every ME country in the region hates Israel so they can effectively get away with what could easily be considered an act of war. Worrying about how we are viewed in the world doesn’t get things done. This sends a great message to Iran as well!
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October 26th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
SG - you didn’t post the picture of the poster child for senility - Rep. John Murtha (TRAITOR) and his ‘chat’ with Assad. I am so depressed. BTW, on Hannity’s America on Sunday - LCPL Sharratt and his father will be on - and he has filed a lawsuit against Rep Murtha too.
back to topic - is it any surprize that the DNC panders to the most criminal, depraved and lying ‘Leaders’ out there? It is just smoozing with like minded soulless, power mad, thugs.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
“you didn’t post the picture of the poster child for senility - Rep. John Murtha (TRAITOR) and his ‘chat’ with Assad.”
I couldn’t find any photos of Murtha with Assad. It’s possible that he and Ellison didn’t actually rate a one on one photo-op.
Maybe even Assad was embarrassed to be seen with either of them.
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October 27th, 2007 at 1:02 am
““It looks like Syria is trying to hide something and destroy the evidence of some activity,” Mr. Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector, said in an interview. “But it won’t work. Syria has got to answer questions about what it was doing.” …”
That’s right damn it…. or else we’ll pass some really harshly worded sanctions!!!!! We passed 19 of them against Saddam…… unfortunately the USA unilaterally acted and removed him from power. But I’m telling you, if we had had to resort to passing #20, boy he would have been sorry!
Hey Reality Bytes,
Good one, too funny, but am I the only one who dives for the mute button on the remote when that tool comes on the TV? Everytime I see him I want to throttle him.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:31 am
This is a prime example of why dems should know who they go to bed with. When you pander to a country like Syria it makes you look bad when they get held up to the light with their hand in the cookie jar. There is such thing as guilt by association. Kuackdaffi and his utopia of Libya realized real quick after 9-11 that he had better come clean and he did so. Getting rid of all programs that even remotely threatened western civilization. He probably remembered the tripoli bombings in the 80s and didn’t want a repeat. Now along comes Syria who several dems have talked to on different trips. Just one little problem, when Pelosi and crew came to talk they represented the legislative branch of Uncle Sugars govt (and not all of it either) NOT the executive branch (therefore not the US officially). If that kind of excrement had occurred during either world wars of the last century; I believe they would have been at a minimum censured. In my state hanged.
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October 27th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Thanks SG - even the evil have their ’standards’ I guess.
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October 28th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Hey, Wardmama:
There’s a sucker who registers democrat every minute.
Friends don’t let friends vote demcrat. It says so right on my daughter’s T shirt - she likes to wear it to polysci class. Drives em’ nutz.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Why is the MSM reporting that Congress didn’t know anything about this incident until now??? Maybe they should have been reading S&L!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I wonder if there is any cultural significance to the fact that Assad is always sitting in the chair on the left when talking to white men and sits in the chair on the right when chatting with women or blacks.
Just wondering.