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Syrian UN ambassador: Nothing was bombed in Syria, nothing was damaged
2007-09-16
Nothing in Syria was bombed by the IAF, and nothing was damaged - this according to Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari. Reports of such an attack are "ridiculous and not true," Army Radio reported Jaafari as saying on Saturday. Jaafari added that "Syria does not have North Korean nuclear facilities."
"We're all fine here. How are you?"
Posted by:Fred

#16  JPOST Muslim? Poster > Israel may win many battles but in the end it will lose the war???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-16 21:23  

#15  There are satellites with sensors that reportedly can detect the byproducts of fission and fusion explosions. carefully stated
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-16 21:15  

#14  I wonder whether the target area has simply withered or actually glows.

Would that kind of thing show up in satellite photos? Not that we're going to see them, but even so...
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-16 19:59  

#13  It must be reassuring to the Syrians to know the Israeli "attack" used hologram airplanes and their weapons cache could not not have been destroyed because fire does not melt steel.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-09-16 18:41  

#12  Ambassador Jaafari waves his hand hypnotically, "These are not the blown up things you are looking for."
Posted by: SteveS   2007-09-16 10:11  

#11  I wonder whether the target area has simply withered or actually glows. No wonder the Syrians aren't giving their allies at the NYT tours of the baby formula factories destroyed.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-09-16 09:11  

#10  My thought too re: Saddam's WMD, Shieldwolf. And not just re: Israel. I wonder how much they were backsliding re: attacks into Iraq from across the border?
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-16 08:08  

#9  Lots of Saddam's WMD materials were shipped to Syria and hidden in the Bekka Valley just before the war, according to some high level Baathists and defectors. And when Lebanon started pushing back against Syria last year, and Hezb'allah started the war with Israel, lots of Syrian military trucks were seen loading up at bunkers in the Bekka and then heading home to Syria. Since the Israelis would NOT be happy with any WMD mounted on a Scud, it could well NOT be NorKor nuke mats, but Saddam's old stuff and the new missile stockpile for Hez that got bombed. Of course, the Syrians could easily be transshipping stuff for Iran and using the same base for long-term storage -- and Israel could have gotten a hat trick by getting it all in one run.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2007-09-16 07:05  

#8  How do you know the Syrians are lying?

The same way that you know the Iranians, the Saudis and the rest of the Muslim world is lying - their lips are moving.
Posted by: Thrineng Munster6911   2007-09-16 03:46  

#7  Methinks they doth protest too little.

Syria wouldn't wipe it's a$$ without an OK by their "secret" masters. If this really was nuclear material, do you really think Iran would allow that stuff to be drop-shipped to Syria? I don't think so, which suggests that whatever it was, it was probably less than Iran had has. Hmm . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2007-09-16 03:23  

#6  Syria is 'falling on the sword' but why, and for who? The Israeli operation was clean and thorough, with not so much 'egg face' on Syria with their fervent cover story of 'Israeli Ineptitude In The Desert', With no one 'sweating it out' on this issue, who is giving the Syrians a sense of ease...something still smells in this operation?
Posted by: smn   2007-09-16 01:24  

#5  Very nice one can rely on Arabs in some regards.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-09-16 00:31  

#4  
Nope, never happened
Posted by: DMFD   2007-09-16 00:19  

#3  Somehow we all knew it would end like this. Denial.... also a river in Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-09-16 00:18  

#2  At least we know now where Baghdad Bob landed....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-09-16 00:16  

#1  "Syria does not have North Korean nuclear facilities."

Well...not anymore.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-16 00:03  

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