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2007-09-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israelis ‘blew apart Syrian nuclear cache’
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Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 Looks like there could be some fallout from this.
(rimshot)
Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-09-16 00:05||   2007-09-16 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 And you've got to wonder, that if Syria's border with Iraq is that wide open to infiltration from west to east, if they made it just as open from east to west. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-16 00:06||   2007-09-16 00:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Appears tactical strike corridors to Tehran have now been re-validated.
Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-16 00:15||   2007-09-16 00:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh.™
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-09-16 00:15|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-09-16 00:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn pity that Ehud Barak was not the MoD in the time of Hizbollah war. He seems to be the right man for the job.

I also like the tight security envelope. Funny how Syrians are tightlipped about the affair, too. Their predicament is losing face.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-16 00:19||   2007-09-16 00:19|| Front Page Top

#6 If this was an effort of the Norks to secrete equipment and material, it would be confirmed if they huffily announce that they are breaking off talks and are going to go back into the nuclear business.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-16 00:23||   2007-09-16 00:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker, I believe that this particular route is spent. It will be double-guarded fo some time.

(...to the detriment of other routes through Syria ;-))
Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-16 00:26||   2007-09-16 00:26|| Front Page Top

#8 'Moose', that makes it clear why US Intelligence allowed the Nork's shipment to reach Syria; that would allow the Norks 'room' for plausible deniability preventing a pullout from the 6 party talks! Israel scored it's second successful attack against a potential nuclear face off, and the long arm of The Mossad lead the way. The Key lied with Israel waiting patiently for three criteria to come to a focal point for the operation; namely; 1) placement of ground assets 2) nesting of the nuclear material to sufficient position for destuction, 3) adequate diversion for fighter interception and extraction w/ enemy communications failure! I'm just waiting for the leak on whether a mini tactical nuke buster was used, for that "Big Hole In The Desert", however this might be suppressed by those concerned by reaction of the 'arab street'! In any event, it would be prudent for Israel to vamp up security (even more so) around Dimona to ward off that 'eye for an eye' Syria is threatening.
Posted by smn 2007-09-16 01:03||   2007-09-16 01:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh.™

Double Heh.™ Heh.™
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-16 01:08||   2007-09-16 01:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I would just like to take this chance to thank the liberals in the US government who have voted to stifle an anti-missile defense. We can't tell you how much we appreciate it.

If true, I'd sure like to know how the NorKs intended to explain away the disappearance of whatever nuclear material this was. Uranium? Test equipment? A bomb chassis that had proven itself next to worthless but might be great material to learn from?
Posted by gorb 2007-09-16 03:00||   2007-09-16 03:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Here is the NorK reaction to Israel's successful strike:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3448829,00.html

North Korea commented on the incident Tuesday, calling it a "dangerous provocation", Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

"This is a very dangerous provocation little short of wantonly violating the sovereignty of Syria and seriously harassing the regional peace and security," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea strongly denounces the above-said intrusion and extends full support and solidarity to the Syrian people in their just cause to defend the national security and the regional peace."

Why would the NorKs even feel the need to comment on this operation?

Could it be that they are miffed that their shipments were destroyed?

Awww, how sad for them!
Posted by Thrineng Munster6911 2007-09-16 03:41||   2007-09-16 03:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm just waiting for the leak on whether a mini tactical nuke buster was used, for that "Big Hole In The Desert",

Damn, purdy tough tek talk. I'll bet they used the crop circles on it.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-09-16 05:03||   2007-09-16 05:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's stick to the original Syrian cover story: the IAF ditched bombs in the desert.
Posted by McZoid 2007-09-16 07:37||   2007-09-16 07:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Why would the NorKs even feel the need to comment on this operation?

Well, if someone blew up one or our cement shipments wouldn't you expect our State Department to react?
Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-09-16 08:19||   2007-09-16 08:19|| Front Page Top

#15 On the ground, Syria’s formidable air defences went dead.

This is what peaks my interest. Went dead? How? Inside mole? EMP device? Took out one radar that tied miles of anti-air network? Whatever it was worked to perfection and didn't alarm the Syrians to scramble their fighters.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-09-16 09:43||   2007-09-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#16 "Syria’s formidable air defences"

That's a laugh - formidable according to whom?

Again, the leftist dictator-ass-kissing MSM carries water for murderers, while Baby Asshat changes his drawers.

(For those not acquainted with the expression, "drawers" is a Southern word for his undie-poos.)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-09-16 10:15|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-09-16 10:15|| Front Page Top

#17 From Daily Pundit:

As everyone else is saying; assuming this is true, it’s pretty damned amazing. The thing that gets me is Israel’s seeming ability to shut down the Syrian air defenses.

The other thing that gets me is that even Ehud Olmert gets it. Chinless ophthalmologists and short, apocalyptic Islamist religious fanatics should not be allowed to play with nukes.

Again, assuming this is true, it’s real nice to see that Israel still has the biggest balls on the block.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-09-16 10:38||   2007-09-16 10:38|| Front Page Top

#18 I'd sure like to know how the NorKs intended to explain away the disappearance of whatever nuclear material this was. Uranium? Test equipment? A bomb chassis that had proven itself next to worthless but might be great material to learn from?

Why would the NORKS or the Syrians, for that matter, explain anything? Deny, deny, deny.

Which is fine, if we bomb, bomb, bomb when we have actionable intel about sufficiently threatening targets. Or if we facilitate work accidents at the site - tragic, but these things happen ....

In this case, whatever the target held, it was deemed critical to take out and either the Israelis couldn't do so more surreptitiously or they wanted to make a very public point. Or both.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-16 10:47||   2007-09-16 10:47|| Front Page Top

#19 1- Would/could the Israelis have done this if Iraq's western desert were still available as a SCUD launching platform?

2- Where's Islamic Rage Boy when you really need him?
Posted by Matt 2007-09-16 11:36||   2007-09-16 11:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Carrying on in the illustrious tradition of Soviet/Russian weapons/defense systems in the hands of Arab/Muslim idiots. Russia got the money and Syria got the shaft. After so many years you'd think they'd learn. It's like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football. Every single autumn Lucy assures Charlie Brown that she will hold it steady so this year he really is going to kick that ball. But somehow it just never works out that way. Achmadinutjob, are you listening?
Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-09-16 17:55||   2007-09-16 17:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Nancy Pelosi is going to be pissed.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-16 17:57||   2007-09-16 17:57|| Front Page Top

#22 I wish we coulda pinned the intel on the lovable dwarf Kucinich while he was there
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-09-16 18:12||   2007-09-16 18:12|| Front Page Top

#23 #21 Nancy Pelosi is going to be pissed.
Posted by: JohnQC 2007-09-16 17:57

She needs to send Murtha over to asses whether to replace the damage with Clinton (Missile Technology supplied to China by Bill) assistance or to send Harry Reid over to build a Syrian Las Vegas in that desert.
Posted by Mad Eye Pholuter1361 2007-09-16 18:32||   2007-09-16 18:32|| Front Page Top

#24 the good thing is that if Pelosi makes another trip to Syria, Assad will most likely bitch slap her and I hope they get a picture of that event...
Posted by Mad Eye Pholuter1361 2007-09-16 18:33||   2007-09-16 18:33|| Front Page Top

#25 She needs to send Murtha over to asses

That's certainly one way to refer to Syria's leadership.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-16 19:02||   2007-09-16 19:02|| Front Page Top

#26 OK!...OK!...I gotta say it... Any of Sadams junk in that ditch? You know...WMD's?
Posted by Herb Sheans7082 2007-09-16 19:39||   2007-09-16 19:39|| Front Page Top

#27 Given its land area and population densities, Israel gener cannot tolerate the detonation(s) any high-yield WMD warhead, thus their need to preempt.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-16 20:40||   2007-09-16 20:40|| Front Page Top

#28 Probably a good amount of Saddam's old WMD were taken out : lots of intel says that Saddam handed over a bunch of his WMD program to his fellow Baathists in Syria, just before we invaded. It was supposedly hidden in special bunkers in the Bekka Valley, but then, the Lebanese starting pushing against the Syrians, and the Hezb'allah dustup with Israel made that untenable. There were reports at the time of special Syrian convoys picking up "items" from the Bekka and heading home to Syria.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-09-16 20:50||   2007-09-16 20:50|| Front Page Top

#29 SYRIA > may be in possible violation of NPT Treaty. *Vari Israeli Posters > Syrian incident shows time growing short for Israel or World to do something about Iran.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-16 23:36||   2007-09-16 23:36|| Front Page Top

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