Me fail English? That unpossible ...
Posted on 12/19/2008 6:11:21 AM PST by ebiskit
Israeli says “We told you so.”
Investigators from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) which works under the auspices of the United Nations have found traces of enriched uranium in Syria, a sign the country had been attempting to develop a nuclear weapons program, Reuters reported Monday.
The enriched uranium was discovered at the same site of a North Korea built and Iran financed reactor which was destroyed by what many feel was a combined bombing by the Israeli Air Force jets and special operations forces in September 2007. The raid has been criticized as illegitimate but this discovery lessens that… IAEA has not released a formal report and made no comment.
Tons of yellowcake uranium was discovered in Iraq and secretly shipped to Canada for processing. Yellowcakes (also called urania) are uranium concentrates obtained from leach solutions. They represent an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is not knownm if any of the Iraqi stockpile found its way into Syria to be processed. It seems more likely the enriched uranium was refined elsewhere and shipped to Syria for further processing in the reactor into U239 (Plutonium) which is a nuclear bomb grade element.
“The agency clearly thinks it has something significant enough to report to put Syria on the (nuclear safeguards) agenda right after North Korea and Iran,” one senior diplomat told Reuters.
“It isn’t enough to conclude or prove what the Syrians were doing but the IAEA has concluded this requires further investigation,” another diplomat with ties to the organization said.
“It was a man-made component, not natural (ore). There is no sign there was already nuclear fuel or (production) activity there,” a third diplomat told Reuters.
Israeli, that has not admitted to the reactor’s destruction, has privately asserted Syria was trying to produce bomb grade material and that why it had to act.
Coincident to the Syria announcement Al-Qaida is saying it is planning an attack on the US more devastating than 9-11. There is no apparent link between Syria and al-Qaida’s threat.
Ten days ago rumor was rift of an Iran prepared freighter loaded with radioactive sand or powder intended to be detonated off Israel’s shore to be carried by prevailing wind to contaminating large areas. That ship was hijacked by pirates some of whom mysteriously died apparently from the ship’s contents.
Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
-------Will this flavor of Yellowcake finally sober-up a few reasonable Koolaid Drinkers?-------
Thank you, Israel.
This is from 11/10/2008.
Funny how we haven’t heard any more about that hijacked ship with a mysterious cargo that supposedly killed the pirates.
hmmmmm
I don’t see the U.S. doing much of anything about these rogue states and their nuke ambitions until one or more American cities get nuked with suit case style nukes. Hear no evil... See no evil.... etc.
IIRC, press reports were useless. The press was constantly confusing that ship with a Ukrainian ship hijacked around the same time. The Ukrainian ship had battle tanks, arms and ammo for Eritrea.
This article has too many typos and technical errors for me to take seriously.
Plutonium is P-239, not U-239. regular uranium is U-238, while the fissable stuff is U-235. Typo city, USA.
Syria's air defenses "going blind" immediately before and during the Israeli strike leads me to believe otherwise. However, that doesn't mean that we won't be hit.
Canada? Lovely.
Don’t worry folks, you won’t have to worry about reading these kind of distracting news stories after January 20th, because The One will have his UN Ambassador laser-focused on the real problems of the world, Carbon Cap and Trade programs, and “fixing” Darfur and the rest of Continental Africa.
A valid observation on your part...
I have never bought the dirty bomb scenario simply due to the damage to neighboring countries. Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Pali areas would all be affected and Iran would be making itself a target of retaliation.
Ten days ago rumor was rift of an Iran prepared freighter loaded with radioactive sand or powder intended to be detonated off Israel’s shore to be carried by prevailing wind to contaminating large areas.
At first I thought english may not be the author's first language. Then I read that he's British and living in the US. It's hard to take someone seriously as an author, historian and analyst who writes this poorly.
Is this guy for real?
As I remember it was shipped back to the USA. I do not remember to what location.
Exactly.
The war of islam againt the world can only have one or zero survivors.
Hmmmmmm....................
That’s my theory, too, but the MSM could never stomach the destruction of their most prized fabrication passed off as “convention wisdom” - that Saddam did not posses WMDs.
Darn Canadians!
>>I would like to see this information verified elsewhere. However, it is very interesting. Israel bombed something in the Syrian desert. I’ve got to believe it was worth the risk they took.<<
If you want, you can check here, this site has an rss feed and usually has some really good intel.
English is not his first language though, right?
Just what I was thinking. Saddam’s legacy?
Terror ping
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.
"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."
Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."
Was that the Moist Deluxe Yellowcake?
Bunch of month-old, unsourced rubbish.
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Covert Op Uncovers Syrian Plutonium Production
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143505/posts
Thanks for the ping, passing it on.
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“This story is all goofed up. There was no yellow cake at Al Kibar.”
The story doesn’t say there was yellowcake at Al Kibar, IMHO. It states there was enriched uranium found and then speculates about whether the yellowcake known to be in Iraq might have been the source of whatever material came to be processed for the Syrian facility. It implies that other sources may have been more likely etc.
The story IS all goofed up in terms of not being very clearly written, but I think you misinterpreted what the author was claiming.
Read this Link Later Bump.
What isn’t said here is that this yellowcake from Iraq was known to the UN and contained in sealed barrels. It was accounted for and not being used. This caused Saddam to try and buy more for his weapons research programs. That was the whole Niger flap that got Joe Wilson into the act and that he actually verified as happening.
Of course, later the lyin’ mtrfckng Treason media allowed him to distort what he had found and said earlier. We sent the yellowcake to Canada for processing after taking charge in Iraq.
Now that should stop them...
Aha. I (finally) understand. Thanks.
The yellow cake wasn’t a secret.
Its shipment to Canada was noted in FreeRepublic post and received minor media coverage.
It is also not a secret that mainstream arab Muslims want to play out terroristic attacks. .
If we keep bringing up such negative things we are going to make the Inaugeration Unicorns unable to pull the Fairy Carriage down Pennsylvania Avenue.
“That’s my theory, too, but the MSM could never stomach the destruction of their most prized fabrication passed off as “convention wisdom” - that Saddam did not posses WMDs.”
President Bush threw his supporters under the bus when he joked and ‘admitted’ he was wrong about Iraq’s WMDs.
Oh, I’m sure they can scare up enough fairies for Zero’s coronation.
4 later
You’re right. I guess my eyes glazed over when I read Mr. Chemistry and Metallurgy calling Plutonium.....-> U238....LOL
President George Bush is a hero and nobody knows it.
DID it kill the pirates?
It is my understanding that they would not care if the “collateral damage” was their own countries and citizens. They would just consider those people to be martyrs.
There were reports that the pirates did lose some members of their crew who opened the cargo hold.
But I have seen no follow up reports at all.
Ping
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