U.N. Puppet ElBaradei Throws Fit Over Syrian Nuke Bombing
He’s whining over Israel taking matters into their own hands with regard to Syrias nuclear ambitions.
I got two words for ElBaradei and they aren’t “Merry Christmas”…
Dr. ElBaradei put in the request before his outburst Sunday, Oct. 28, against the US and Israel “for taking the law into their own hands” by bombing Syria’s nuclear compound.
“That to me is very distressful,” said the chief nuclear inspector, “because we have a system: if countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us. We have the authority to go out and investigate.”
DEBKAfile reports Dr. ElBaradei requested any imagery, data or other evidence of such activity in Syria. He also turned to Russia and China for any information garnered by their military satellites and to Sweden where private firms maintain high-quality satellites in orbit over the Middle East. He asked them all for any pictures attesting to a nuclear project in Syria. But when none acceded to his request, he lost his temper and lashed out.
DEBKAfile’s sources in Vienna adds: The US and Israel have used the Syrian episode as an opportunity to demonstratively do their own respective things in their policies on nuclear issues, having reached a parting of the ways with the International Atomic Energy Agency. They will not hand over to ElBaradei the evidence collected attesting to Syria’s nuclear activities as long as the chief nuclear inspector refuses to say how he means to use it. Had he offered to send a team of inspectors to examine the suspect installation, the evidence would have been given him. Neither Washington nor Jerusalem will take the risk of ElBaradei, after receiving the materials, stating that the Israeli strike was unwarranted.
DEBKAfile
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Lorne Gunter: The confused mind of the feckless Mohamed ElBaradei
The reaction to the news of the Israeli air raid, though, by Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, is most telling. It shows, again, just how two-faced the UN has been on the Iraq war, how ineffectual the IAEA is and what a farce the Nobel peace prize can be at times.
ElBaradei won the prize in 2005.
Speaking to the French paper Le Monde, ElBaradei angrily denounced Syria, Israel and any other country that had intelligence on the Syrian plant but did not share it with the IAEA.
“We have said,” ElBaradei told the paper “If any of you has the slightest information showing that there was anything linked to nuclear, we would of course be happy to investigate it. Frankly, I venture to hope that before people decide to bombard and use force, they will come and see us to convey their concerns.”
Sorry, Mo, would that be an investigation with the same thoroughness and veracity as your investigations of the Iranian, Libyan, Iraqi and North Korean nuke programs? ‘Cause if it is, the Israelis were probably wise to bomb first and ask for your assessment later.
ElBaradei is a player in international politics, not an impartial enforcer of non-proliferation treaties. His complete failure even to suspect Libya and Syria of nuclear intentions (when both countries were clearly working on bombs) should alone be enough to revoke his Nobel. But if not that, then surely his bias in the Iraq war would disqualify him.
On the eve of the March 2003 coalition invasion of Iraq, ElBaradei attempted to undermine Security Council endorsement of the attack by saying he could not tell whether Iraq was pursuing nuclear weapons but that he suspected it was not.
Then in October 2004, when he was confident the world had forgotten his earlier reassurances, he castigated the US and Britain for permitting material and technology that could have been used to construct a bomb to disappear from Iraq.
When asked about the recent Israeli attack on the Syrian reactor, ElBaradei said “When the Israelis destroyed Saddam Hussein’s research nuclear reactor in 1981, the consequence was that Saddam Hussein pursued his program secretly. He began to establish a huge military nuclear program underground.”
It is simply not possible for Iraq to have no nuclear program AND a “huge” underground program AND bomb-making material so dangerous it should have been seized immediately after the coalition gained control.
In every case, El Baradei’s goal in making his public pronouncement has been to undermine international support for the US and its allies, not to make the world safer from nuclear weapons.
October 28th, 2007 at 6:17 pmFuck him.
October 28th, 2007 at 6:39 pm…And fuck the UN of terrorist nations a sympathizers. God forbid if HRC becomes pres when I get my commission, she just might force us the wear the blue helmet again. No small wonder that many would resign when their commitments are up, if she becomes CiC.
October 28th, 2007 at 7:17 pmFirst of all, he got a Nobel prize? For what? Second, he most likely warned Sadaam so he could move the WMD’s to Syria before March 2003.
October 28th, 2007 at 7:32 pmOh yeah, right. We’re going to turn over our intel to the UN so they can MAYBE produce a “strongly worded document”. ElBaradai is a useless tool and he can go shit a hedgehog.
October 28th, 2007 at 7:37 pmMy blood boils to think of this muzzie fuck in that position and anybody in this country giving a fuck about anything he says.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:13 pm