Expert Questions U.S. Claim over Syrian Reactor

[Hissyspit]

Source: AFP

Expert questions US claim over Syrian reactor
Web posted at: 4/27/2008 6:40:58
Source ::: AFP

Vienna - A nuclear physicist close to the United Nations atomic watchdog cast doubt yesterday on the veracity of US intelligence which claimed that Syria had been building a secret atomic reactor.

“When you look at the (US intelligence services) pictures, they show only raw construction,” an expert close to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told AFP on condition on anonymity. “It was just the shell of a site, and the walls did not look like the ones needed for a plutonium reactor.”

Walls of a plutonium reactor “need a lot of piping, there was nothing like that on the pictures,” he added.

On Thursday, US national security officials briefed US lawmakers, presenting intelligence they said showed Syria had been building a secret nuclear reactor with a military purpose.

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[kenny blankenship]

1. It's almost as though he's insinuating that we or our allies would LIE about a thing like that!

That is an outrageous accusation. This man is either a paid agent of the Soviets,Red Chinese, Iranians Saddam Hussein, Serbians, Saddam Hussein, Iranians or Al-Qaida! Or else he is mentally ill and doesn't know what he's saying today or what he said yesterday.

[DeSwiss]

3. Those pictures looked it could the....

...beginning construction of a Syrian-Disney site to me.

Or maybe another Six Flags?? :shrug:

- K&R!!!

[NeoConsSuck]

20. You forgot the North Koreans

:)

[mike_c]

2. did Colin Powell bring vials of white powder to the briefing...?

eom, because there really isn't much more to add....

[jeff30997]

4. Next thing you know...

They will claim that Tonga is building a space shuttle fleet.

[jmowreader]

7. You mean they're not?

You're insinuating that Our Great President is a liar!

(Oh, how I wish MrBenchley wouldn't have turned out to be a freeper...)

[jeff30997]

14. Lol!

:)

[LeftCoast]

21. Wow...how'd I miss hearing about that?

:hi:

[burrowowl]

5. Saw a picture of the building

Looked like a falling apart warehouae. Nothing that would house anything serious, looked like the so-called biowarfare truck. If anyone swallows anything the Bu$h Maladministration puts out, they are fascist idiots!
Impeach, convict and send to prison for life! All of them!

[ohio2007]

10. Assad says alleged nuclear site was a military base

Building looked like an empty warehouse to me but Assad also said N Korean missiles were kept on site.Problem is it could have been debunked in hours except the site was off limits.....being a "military base" and all


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52d_1209296644

[darue]

6. so how were they supposed to be supplying this with water, and where where the lake?

is there even a lake anywhere near the site?

[ixion]

8. There was objection to the documents used to rationalize the illegal invasion of Iraq, too

and you didn't hear a peep about it from the MSM. I expect the same will be true of this, because the documents they use are but mere props that fall apart on inspection. That, however, has never stopped this cabal from military aggression.

Just watch. For all the clamoring about 'change', this will go unreported or under-reported, guaranteed.

[psychmommy]

9. he's a nuclear scientist what does he know?

our intelligence folks are going to draw some pics of what the facility is going to look like. out congress is gonna believe that crap and bam we'll be bombing and nuking countries left and right. we have to get all of the wars started in case obama wins the wh. let's stick him w/more wars. scientists scmientists.

[annabanana]

11. off to greatest.... This can't be repeated often enough

to counter the message-mulitpliars working corpomedia on the other side.

[nichomachus]

12. I think the safest thing is to doubt anything the US government says

until it's proven true.

[Hissyspit]

13. kick n/t

[jeff30997]

15. And a big R too!

:)

[Quantess]

16. The White House has no credibility left.

The world knows the Bush Administration lied about Saddam's WMD, and now our global reputation is tarnished.

[spanone]

17. k&r this should be a UN problem if it's a problem at all..we are NOT the world's police

[lovuian]

18. This was a weapons test thats what it is and US & Israel

tested it
The Russians are right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJW_hLM1pWI

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/101708-1/
Richard Aldrich: Not really. It is unlikely that Russia has given its latest air defense equipment to friendly countries in the Middle East and so the United States would not learn much about current Russian capabilities by looking at Syrian Air Defense. Its more likely that the United States would gather useful intelligence against Syria itself during this operation. The information might also be useful against another regional power operating similar types of equipment.


Pravda.Ru: Can we speak here that this operation will launch a new war in the field of electronic and digital technologies?

Richard Aldrich: Electronic warfare has been around a long time and had already reached quite a level of sophistication during the Second World War. However, the new aspect of this operation was the use of network attacks. It appears that the command and control systems of the Syrian military were directly attacked by Israelis using computers as weapons. This is a specialist form of military hacking. For many years there has been an active debate about how practical and realistic the idea of pure 'network warfare' really is. During the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s this activity seemed to be limited to fairly trivial "denial of service" attacks.

Now, perhaps we have seen the first live example of the military application of network warfare.

Perhaps we have


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUUqa3YpHT0

Haaretz wanted to make it perfectly clear US aided Israel in the attack

[Winterblues]

19. Nuclear reacters need tremendous amounts of water for cooling

This was located in the middle of the desert. :shrug: but if the Bush* Cabal says it then it must be true. We know they are nothing if not credible...

[rcsl1998]

22. .