U.S. Assisted Israel In Syrian Attack (explains *'s 'no comment's)

[babylonsister]

U.S. Assisted Israel In Syrian Attack

Israel "mole" took photos of Syrian target: report

By Reuters

10/19/07 -- -- WASHINGTON "Reuters" - - Israel had obtained detailed pictures of a Syrian complex from an apparent mole, which supported an Israeli belief the facility was nuclear and led to an air strike on it last month, ABC News reported on Friday.

ABC, citing a senior U.S. official, said the person had provided several pictures of the complex from the ground, and Israel showed the images to the CIA. The U.S. spy agency helped pinpoint "drop points" to assist in potential targeting, ABC said.

Israel urged the United States to destroy the complex, but Washington hesitated because no fissionable material was found that would prove the site was nuclear, ABC said.

The network quoted the official as saying the facility was of North Korean design and that Syria must have had "human" help from North Korea.

The White House and the CIA declined to comment on the report, in keeping with a strict U.S. refusal to discuss the issue.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18594.htm

[Kagemusha]

1. If there's no fissionable material, how is it a nuclear facility?

Beats me.

[PDJane]

2. That's a logical question.

That gets you on the enemy combatant list.

:sarcasm:

[Selatius]

4. "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." - Donald Rumsfeld.

Just because you don't have evidence that something does exist, doesn't mean you have evidence that something doesn't exist, at least according to Rumsfeld.

[gratuitous]

5. And what makes a design specifically North Korean?

Does it look like Kim Jong-Il in profile from above or something?

So apparently the United States was complicit in carrying out an act of war by Israel against Syria. No wonder the Dim Son doesn't want to discuss it publicly; even that idiot knows it's a war crime both by U.S. law and treaty. The question remains: Why don't our bulldogs of the media demand an answer from Stupidhead? Instead, we're treated to story after story of how someone's laugh sounds, or how mean an ad in the Times was.

[Kagemusha]

6. Well I heard a suggestion it was a SCUD storage site.

Syria does buy SCUDs from N. Korea - that is not new, and certainly not a secret. Their being fitted with nuclear warheads is highly unlikely. OTOH, Syria has plenty of genuine WMD - chemical WMD, mostly. That is not official, but it is no great secret either.

[gratuitous]

7. Shoot, I have chemical WMD under my kitchen sink

I hope that doesn't invite some wayward Israeli missiles through the kitchen window; I just dusted.

[bemildred]

3. Send in the clowns, there ought to be clowns ...

You gotta wonder what these paranoid loons would do with better quality pharmaceuticals to boost their imaginations ...