Nukes strange doings in Syria [Charles Krauthammer]

The Free Lance-Star ^ | September 23, 2007 | Charles Krauthammer

[txhurl]

10-4, jedward.

[rontorr]

1. people that aren’t programmers don’t like them
2. name dropping is for cheerleaders
3. never try to straighten out a person with a screen name or tag line like that, he’s like Mongo, “don’t shoot him, if you shoot him, you’ll only pi$$ him off”.

[rontorr]

if you were alive and watching live TV News in 1968, you would know what he said about the picture is true

[txhurl]

Oh, this is an old troll problem. I only name-dropped because the person constanty pings JR, however he does have a legitimate service record similar to JRs so he gets a pass.

[txhurl]

Maybe the data on that VC guy should be better known.

I honestly didn't know that. I stand corrected, or actually ignorant.

[kittymyrib]

If one could save millions from nuclear annihilation by killing one mad little man while enrout back to his home base from the US...
If only Hitler had been disposed of in 1936, millions of people would have lived.

[syriacus]

Gee...Saddam could have been helping in the fight against Israel, (if he were still alive and in power).

http://hrw.org/reports/2003/iraqjordan/Iraqjordan0503-03.htm#P369_78550

In February 2001, President Saddam Hussein announced the formation of a new paramilitary force, the Jaysh al-Quds [Jerusalem Army], with the aim to "liberate" Jerusalem. Iraqi males of military age, particularly Shi'a and Kurds, were often forced to "volunteer" for service in the Jaysh al-Quds.

[George W. Bush]

We do know that Israel carried out an airstrike. How then do we know it was important? Because in Israel, where leaking is an art form, even the best-informed don't have a clue. They tell me they have never seen a better-kept secret. Which suggests that whatever happened near Dayr az Zawr was no accidental intrusion into Syrian airspace, no dry run for an attack on Iran, no strike on some conventional target such as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard base or a weapons shipment on its way to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But using the reliance on leaking to produce a leak-blackout may also be part of the art of Israeli leaking. In and of itself, it means nothing.

In probably less than two years, Ahmadinejad will have the bomb.

Aside from just making this stuff up, upon what is he basing this hysteria? I haven't read anything from Pentagon/CIA/DIA/NSA/Israeli sources that puts the timeframe at less than five years. I assume this estimate is political, essentially to create an urgency to attack Iran while Bush is still in office.

[elpadre]

Seems like I read that Israel Commandos were involved in the raid - nothing since the initial report. If so, why? Did they snatch someone? - retrieve some of the material? just curious!

[Admin Moderator]

KNOCK OFF THE PERSONAL ATTACKS!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Sorry...

[Robert A Cook PE]

That part of this “little story” that the MSM are busily ignoring is on a different thread: look for “commandoes sieze nuclear material syria israel raid” keywords

[piasa]

[SNIP]...Three days earlier [SEPT 3, 2007], a freighter flying the North Korean flag docked in the Syrian port city of Tartus with a shipment of "cement." Long way to go for cement. Within days, a top State Department official warned that "there may have been contact between Syria and some secret suppliers for nuclear equipment." Three days later, the Sept. 19 six-party meeting on dismantling North Korea's nuclear facilities was suddenly postponed, officially by China, almost certainly at the behest of North Korea.

Apart from the usual suspects--Syria, Iran, Libya, and Russia--only two countries registered strong protests to the Israeli strike: Turkey and North Korea. Turkey we can understand. Its military may have permitted Israel an overflight corridor without ever having told the Islamist civilian government. But North Korea? What business is this of North Korea's? Unless it was a North Korean facility being hit.

Which raises alarms for many reasons. First, it would undermine the whole North Korean disarmament process. Pyongyang might be selling its stuff to other rogue states, or perhaps just temporarily hiding it abroad while permitting ostentatious inspections back home.

Second, there are ominous implications for the Middle East. Syria has long had chemical weapons--on Monday, Jane's Defence Weekly reported on an accident that killed dozens of Syrians and Iranians loading a nerve-gas warhead onto a Syrian missile--but Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Syria....[/SNIP]
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[Enchante]

There was just an item today that an Israeli official told a visiting Japanese delegation that N. Korea was definitely involved in the Syria project that was bombed...... I’ll see if I can find it.