[Parmenio]

This article has a few details about the raid that I haven't seen anywhere else, including the tantalizing quote from the "very senior British ministerial source". Also that the commandos sent soil samples and evidence back to Israel prior to the raid.

[Spok]

If true, this story is reassurance that the grown-ups are still in charge in Washington, D.C.
What’s troubling is the recently toned down rhetoric from North Korea and Iran. They must be counting on a Democrat in the White House in 2008 and know that all they have to do is grin and say nice things to placate a Democrat administration, while covertly attaining their nuclear ambitions. As in the Clinton years, the Democrats, with the aid of the MSM, will be able to deny and hide real international threats while working on domestic ‘reform’. When the threat resurfaces, there will be no option but nuclear war, which they will blame on Reagan.

[blam]

F-15I

[Jim Noble]

If the Israelis (whom God save and protect) hit nuclear material from the air with explosive weapons (and there apparantly IS a big hole in the ground), I think we would have heard about some atmospheric release of isotopes by now.

[Stashiu]

Also, don’t forget the ‘rail accident’ in NK a few years ago. I believe there were reports of some Syrians on that train.

[ASOC]

“So close to WWIII...”

Iraq fired 39 SCUD missiles at Israel in 1991. Had any of those been armed with other than HE, WWIII would have begun within an hour.....

There is no doubt in my mind that F15(E) aircraft - loaded with nukes at Sedot Mikha airfield - were sitting in underground hard stands waiting for the go code. Had they been released, not only Baghdad would have been glowing ruin, I suspect that Damascus and Tehran would have been next.

Given that Iran shared a common border with the, then still active, USSR - and a nuclear Pakistan - could have driven a exchange of Nweapons that may have led to a larger conflict.

[aculeus]

Thanks for posting.

[SE Mom]

Some more insight..

[bert]

...commandos sent soil samples and evidence back to Israel prior to the raid......

What would soil samples indicate?

I would think that the samples would be of tailings. Perhaps centrifuge tailings. After the uranium was separated, the non usable residue would be discarded where commandos could get at it.

[steel_resolve]

Operation Orchard? What about “Operation Knock Their D&*K in the Dirt”???

[lonevoice]

I wonder...will we ever know?

[null and void]

And North Korea got nuclear technology how?

William Jefferson Clinton...

[jim_trent]

What happened to the nuclear material after it was bombed. Did it just disappear? Wouldn’t it scatter instead, which means a “dirty bomb” happened in Syria?

[Freedom2specul8]

marked to read more later...

thanx

[Convert from ECUSA]

Check this out (more on the 9/6/07 strike into Syria)!

[r9etb]

Mr. Davis implies that there was “nuke stuff” in the building. If so, the area around the building will most likely be radioactive. It’d be interesting to see the post-raid satellite photots....

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But the floodgates were opened wide by the renegade Pakistan nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is revered in Pakistan as the Father of the Islamic Bomb. Khan established a virtual supermarket of nuclear technologies, parts and plans which operated for more than a decade on a global stage. After his operation was shut down in 2004, Khan admitted transferring technology and parts to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Proliferation experts are convinced they know the identities of at least three of his many other clients: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Can we drop the charade about AQ Khan being a "renegade" scientist who singlehandedly distributed nuclear secrets to every rogue state on the planet? The idea that Pakistani nuclear technology, controlled completely and solely by the Pakistani military, could somehow be given away by a single man for over a decade without the support of the Pakistani military at the highest levels is ridiculous. Pakistan's gross irresponsibility seems to be one of the primary reasons behind the nuclear threat we and the rest of the world now face from North Korea and Iran.

[Badeye]

Its a facinating article, but suggesting it was almost ‘World War Three’ is over the top, by miles and miles and miles in my opinion.

Who was going to fight this World War, outside of the regional interests?

Nobody.

[ctdonath2]

Anyone have coordinates on where this happened? A few minutes with Google Maps could be interesting.

[arthurus]

I’m curious. Nothing in the piece indicates that anyone was “close” to nuclear war. Nothing about it indicates that something big was ready to go in hours or days or even months. Surely the raid was necessary and salutary but the article does not support the headline.

[Interesting Times]

Some informed-sounding speculation here...