ElBaradei Whines: “US And Israel Don’t Trust Me With Intel”
So Mohamed ElBaradei finds it “distressing” that neither Israel nor the U.S. shared information with him about an apparent Syrian nuclear program before Israeli jets destroyed it on September 6. Imagine that: Not everyone is prepared to entrust the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency with their national security.
For the past year, Mr. ElBaradei has been running an independent foreign policy from his IAEA perch. People tell him he is “doing God’s work” — or so he tells the New York Times. In August, he announced a nuclear agreement he had reached with Iran’s mullahs, without consulting his political superiors at the agency. Even the Europeans protested that one.
The agreement made no reference to the U.N. Security Council’s demand that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment program, a demand Mr. ElBaradei himself dismisses as moot. The agreement also allowed the Iranians to dribble out information on the dozen outstanding questions the IAEA has yet to resolve.
Mr. ElBaradei has coasted on the IAEA’s reputation as the authoritative source of information on the world’s nuclear secrets. Yet this is the same agency that was taken by surprise by nuclear projects in Libya, North Korea and Iraq in the 1980s. And now in Syria, which in September was voted co-chair of the IAEA’s General Conference.
All this is reason enough for the U.S., Israel and any other country serious about stopping nuclear proliferation to refuse Mr. ElBaradei’s not-so-good diplomatic offices. Not surprisingly, the Syrians are hailing the IAEA chief for saying neither Israel nor the U.S. had provided “any evidence” to suggest Damascus was in the nuclear business. Satellite images show the Syrians have now covered their tracks in the desert.
(WSJ)
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Because we believe you’re a jihadist sympathizer. would probably warn them ahead of time. Or just make excuses and sugar coat it like you have the Iranian program
November 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pmI can see this Arab/Persian appeaser is having trouble with another ‘Muslim science’.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:54 pmDentistry.
Assuming Iran does not blow itself up in the process, and is not faced with difficulties, the most severe scenario is that Iran could have a nuclear bomb by the end of 2009.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pmThe time is right to throw those fools off American soil.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pmI say not one more dime to that communist/Islamic terror state. Get those fools out!!!!!
“People tell him he is “doing God’s work” — or so he tells the New York Times.”
And which god would that be? This jihadi isn’t very good at kitma or tagyiya. So who is he fooling anyways? Himself?
November 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pmOK, you’ve got to be kidding, ElB, you are the fool who warned Sadaam so he could move his WMD’s. You’re mad because you think you know it all, but the US & Israel just proved you don’t. Ha ha ha.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:28 pm“US And Israel Don’t Trust Me With Intel”
Yeaaaaah, well we been through this before and all the wmd’s disappeared. I think we can handle this without tipping off the Iranians what we know…
November 7th, 2007 at 6:49 pm