Yet Another Photo of Site in Syria, Yet More Questions

[deminks]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/world/middleeast/27syria.html


The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened Friday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.

The long genesis is likely to raise questions about whether the Bush administration overlooked a nascent atomic threat in Syria while planning and executing a war in Iraq, which was later found to have no active nuclear program.

A senior American intelligence official said Friday that American analysts had looked carefully at the site from its early days, but were unsure then whether it posed a nuclear threat.

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On Friday independent analysts, examining the latest satellite image, suggested that work on the site might have begun around 2001, and the senior intelligence official agreed with that analysis. That early date is potentially significant in terms of North Korea’s suspected aid to Syria, suggesting that North Korea could have begun its assistance in the late 1990

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This whole story is starting to smell bad to me.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. So where was the radiation leak from the destroyed reactor?

Or whatever it was. No radiation. Instead we have pictures of a building before it was destroyed and pictures of where the building was after the Israelis committed a blatant act of war and destroyed it and the Syrians cleaned up what was left. And we have the usual suspects pointing at a bulldozed over hole in the ground saying "see, we told you".

See what? A building. No building. OK.

[Adsos Letter]

2. I don't trust them either...

...but it may be that only the infrastructure was being completed, with no nuclear material yet installed...

who knows what to believe anymore... :shrug:

[deminks]

3. Kick for the morning. nt