Syria Admits Israel Hit A Nuke Site
“Can I still get the flashy thing?”
In its first admission by a state official, Syria’s ambassador to the UN confirmed that an air raid carried out by Israeli fighter jets deep in Syrian territory on September 6 was, indeed, an attack on a Syrian nuclear facility, Israel Radio reported Wednesday morning.
The Syrian envoy disclosed the nature of the target during a meeting of a UN committee where Israeli envoys were also present.
A senior source in the Foreign Ministry confirmed that the statement was made in New York by the Syrian official.
Since first announcing on September 6 that an incursion into Syrian airspace by IAF jets took place, Syria has attempted to strike a balance between mustering international condemnation of Israel on the one hand and efforts by Damascus to blur the nature and purpose of the facility attacked on the other hand.
Nearly a month after the strike, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a BBC interview that the target hit by the Israeli Air Force was a building in an abandoned military base.
But several days before the Assad interview, a Syrian “agricultural research center” in the area of the strike independently invited foreign journalists to visit the site to offer proof that Israeli missiles missed their target.
Israel continues to keep mum on the affair, and the only information cleared by the military censor for publication was the fact that a strike took place; any other information published in Israel continues to be accompanied by the phrase “according to foreign media outlets.”
Israeli analysts estimated that the government’s decision not to disclose information about the strike was intended to avoid embarrassing Assad’s regime, in the hope that silence on Israel’s side could prevent the tension between the two countries from escalating into all-out war.
JP
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Help me out gang. I try to decipher why certain corrupt nations take positions on various issues and I can’t quite figure this one out.
Israel bombed the nuke facility and they (as well as the U.S) kept their mouth shut regarding the subject.
I expected Syria to stick with some B.S. story behind what the facility actually was. Such as claiming it was an abandoned military base.
But they didn’t. They just admitted it was a Syrian nuclear facility.
Other possible factors in play; Putin just came back from Iran with promises, agreements, etc dealing from military weapons trade to dealing with the United States and Iran’s nuke program.
It appears that Syria just admitted to the nuke program immediately after Putin came back from Iran. Syria and Iran are tight like and sometimes it appears that Iran can dictate to Syria what they want them to do.
Does Iran and Syria now feel they have enough political juice with Putin in their back pocket to do anything they want and thumb their nose to the west? I don’t know. Thoughts anyone….
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want but this smells. There’s a reason for what Syria is doing and it can’t be good.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:18 am“in spite of the refusal of Putin to deliver Bouchehr to them,(the mullah are using Buchehr for their propagand) they did not refuse to buy equipment to him. Mollahs left their cheque book to buy 50 engines RD-33 intended to equip with the hunters bombers of the Iranian air force. The invoice rises to 150 M USS. These engines will be installed on of the “Azarakhsh”, the super new plane of mollahs whom they announced of local design at 100%. Putin also sold to his friends a small batch of engines RD-5000 intended to equip the experimental hunter “Shafaq”. Other co-operations are to be envisaged in particular in the railway field for a project of connection between Iran, the Central Asia and Russia. Before the revolution, Iran did not wish to create junction between the Russian and Iranian railroads to avoid a possibility of unloading of the Soviet troops in Iran. But from now on, Iran became the promised ground of Russia…”
a babel fish translation
October 17th, 2007 at 10:39 amCall this Tehran meeting a “check”. Currently we are involved in a scenario very similar to that which preceded WW1 and WW2. Alliance building, armament expansion and territorial expansion/defence (see Putin’s remarks re. the Caspian Sea nations). I am left with one remaining question though…Who will play the part of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
P.S. Just all you peacenik moonbats out there remember that the largest wars since the industrial revolution have all involved the USA while it was being led by a Progressive/Democrat/Liberal White House and Congress and WW2 was started by Socialist/Nationalistic Revolution members.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:04 amFrenchie, what website did you get that translation from?
October 17th, 2007 at 12:06 pmGlad to see the UN nuclear watchdog group IAEA was all over this from the start. (sarc off)
Meet your new Blix, same as the old Blix…
October 17th, 2007 at 12:40 pmMatt,
http://www.iran-resist.org/article3898
a pro Sha journalists site
October 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pmPutin said”… Our German partners started it but then pulled out. And this is where technological difficulties began. The German equipment is out of date but it is still there. There are also legal difficulties. Iran has signed contracts not only with Russia but with other countries, including North Korea. NORTH KOREA FAILED to fulfill its obligations to PROVIDE EQUIPMENT so Russia had to find those missing parts. This resulted in delays in finishing this project,” President Putin explained.”
The plot thickens…could this equipment have been what the IDF targeted…It’s all coming to light now
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