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2007-09-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian UN ambassador: Nothing was bombed in Syria, nothing was damaged

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

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

Well...not anymore.

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-16 00:03|| 2007-09-16 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 At least we know now where Baghdad Bob landed....

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

#3 Somehow we all knew it would end like this. Denial.... also a river in Africa.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-16 00:18|| 2007-09-16 00:18|| Front Page Top

Nope, never happened

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

#5 Very nice one can rely on Arabs in some regards.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-16 00:31|| 2007-09-16 00:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 01:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 03:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 03:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 07:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 08:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 09:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 10:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 18:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 19:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 21:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-09-16 21:23|| Front Page Top

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