This is not good at all. The article on this is over at DEBKA and here's a portion of it:
I don't think this is a bad play for the U.S. at this time. We certainly know that alerting the IAEA means nothing and absolutely zero will get done but what it does is set the stage for actions against Iran. The U.S. , in my view, is putting out there for the world to see how the Syrians had secretly deceived the World and had/has three nuclear facilities capable of producing nuclear weapons. And with that knowledge out there, it becomes a matter of just pointing to Iran and saying that they have done the same thing.
Let's face it, the Israelis leveled the one (or two) nuke facilities in Syria and the world had nothing to say - most of everyone was shocked to hell by it - that Assad had come that close. So, in my opinion, a U.S. or Coalition strike on Iran's facilities would garner NO outrage in the World other than from Iran and Syria. The time is now for the Iranian facility to be taken out. The proof is out there that the Syrians had just about completed it and Iran can't be far behind and in fact, a case could be made that Iran has another facility that the world doesn't even know about.
According to the Washington Post, US officials have identified at least three suspected nuclear sites in Syria, two more than the Al Kibar reactor Israel bombed last year, and passed the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This confirms the Oct. 25, 2007, disclosure by DEBKAfile military sources that the Israeli raid of Sept. 6 had destroyed at least two nuclear sites in Syria.
Washington released its request to the IAEA now - both to point up its disapproval of the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s peace talks with Damascus and to continue the pressure on Syrian president Bashar Assad. More such disclosures are therefore expected.
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told the WP that the intelligence community’s insight into Syria’s nuclear ambitions had deepened since the Israeli raid. “Do not assume that Al Kibra exhausted our knowledge of Syrian efforts with regard to nuclear weapons.”
I don't think this is a bad play for the U.S. at this time. We certainly know that alerting the IAEA means nothing and absolutely zero will get done but what it does is set the stage for actions against Iran. The U.S. , in my view, is putting out there for the world to see how the Syrians had secretly deceived the World and had/has three nuclear facilities capable of producing nuclear weapons. And with that knowledge out there, it becomes a matter of just pointing to Iran and saying that they have done the same thing.
Let's face it, the Israelis leveled the one (or two) nuke facilities in Syria and the world had nothing to say - most of everyone was shocked to hell by it - that Assad had come that close. So, in my opinion, a U.S. or Coalition strike on Iran's facilities would garner NO outrage in the World other than from Iran and Syria. The time is now for the Iranian facility to be taken out. The proof is out there that the Syrians had just about completed it and Iran can't be far behind and in fact, a case could be made that Iran has another facility that the world doesn't even know about.
Washington asks nuclear watchdog to search for two more Syrian nuclear sites – report
According to the Washington Post, US officials have identified at least three suspected nuclear sites in Syria, two more than the Al Kibar reactor Israel bombed last year, and passed the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This confirms the Oct. 25, 2007, disclosure by DEBKAfile military sources that the Israeli raid of Sept. 6 had destroyed at least two nuclear sites in Syria.
Washington released its request to the IAEA now - both to point up its disapproval of the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s peace talks with Damascus and to continue the pressure on Syrian president Bashar Assad. More such disclosures are therefore expected.
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told the WP that the intelligence community’s insight into Syria’s nuclear ambitions had deepened since the Israeli raid. “Do not assume that Al Kibra exhausted our knowledge of Syrian efforts with regard to nuclear weapons.”
Our military sources add: The fact that Syria was building three interconnected nuclear sites, a North Korean reactor and facilities for supplying nuclear fuel rods and fuel processing for extracting plutonium, proves Damascus was close to completing a weaponization program fueled by plutonium rather than enriched uranium. Both American and Israeli sources reported that the reactor was only weeks or months away from being ready for production.
Our sources add that if Syria was that close, how much closer must Iran, the senior partner in the alliance, be to its goal of a homemade nuclear weapon?
Syria has not responded to any IAEA requests for a date to conduct inspections.
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Perhaps it is time for us to build the Bahgdad to Kabul highway, with the Damascus annex.
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