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| Israel is the only country in the world to have ever destroyed two nuclear reactors... |
| 2008-04-26 |
| The briefing brought out key data hidden from the public in the eight months since the Israeli raid. 1. It confirmed DEBKAfileÂ’s October 2007 report that North Korean personnel had built a reactor for the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons in a hidden canyon of of eastern Syria. 2. Israel managed to plant a mole or moles inside the reactor compound capable of producing professional photos from inside the reactor. US lawmakers where shown, for instances, images of a concrete floor with rows of holes ready for the nuclear fuel rods to power the plant. Assad must have been irked beyond endurance when his most coveted secrets and security were shown to the world as having been blown wide open, when the regime he heads depends for its survival on a battery of secret police and undercover agencies with eyes and ears everywhere. 3. The Israeli raid demonstrated too that SyriaÂ’s military establishment has been penetrated as fatally as his clandestine agencies. 4. The congressional briefing will have done more to mar the relations of trust between Tehran and Damascus than any diplomatic or military action. Cracks are inevitable in their strategic pact. It will be hard for Iran to continue to pose as the No. 1 Middle East power after Syria, its foremost ally and military mainstay, exposed its extreme vulnerability. 5. TehranÂ’s precise role in the Syrian nuclear program is not known, but it was obvious to the American lawmakers listening to the intelligence briefing that Syria would not have built a nuclear reactor with IranÂ’s knowledge and consent, and that the Syrian plant was designed to be an integral part of IranÂ’s own nuclear program. Iran will no doubt have inferred from the disclosures about the Israeli attack on the Syrian reactor and its painful fallout for the Assad regime that its own projects may be subjected to the same fate. It is a matter of record now that Israel is the only country in the world to have ever destroyed two nuclear reactors in successful go-it-alone, intelligence-backed military operations. |
| Posted by:Bernie |
| #6 Joe may be on to something. Joe for King! |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-04-26 17:18 |
| #5 There is real meat in JosephM's comments. It's just a matter of learning how to translate his shorthand, and when he's switched from serious to Madonna or old television shows. Although in my ignorance it seems this count of smn's does make sense. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-26 17:04 |
| #4 It's peculiar, I find Mr. Mendiolas commentary of more worth than StratFor or the EarlyBird. Young SMN is not in the same league, still an effort I suppose. |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-04-26 07:54 |
| #3 only three? |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-04-26 04:57 |
| #2 It's about to be three!!! Unless the US steps in (either through the back door; such as with Syria and Iraq) or the front door with Iraq in the 1st Gulf War, or potentially with Iran next; Israel may become only the second nation to nuke a country on the verge of developing nukes themselves (documents that escaped destruction from the Japanese surrender and later witness statements showed they were within a year also)! Should Israel preempt the Iranian nuclear threat with destruction, becoming the only nation to destroy three separate nations nuclear ambitions. Could have been 4 (UNHEARD OF)had the US not stepped in with the Lybian initiative! |
| Posted by: smn 2008-04-26 02:33 |
| #1 See WND > US WILL GIVE NUCLEAR FUEL TO ARAB STATES; + TOPIX > CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR-CNN - IS THE US TRYING TO FORCE A NUCLEAR STANDOFF? *2008 - 2012/13 [espec - 2010]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-26 02:06 |