Our own, sweet "Vieux Gregoire",
taking a closer look at ...
Israel’s September raid
Raid Revelation:
Getting briefed on World War III.
If people had known how close we came to World War III that day there would have been mass panic. That is how a very senior British ministerial source recently characterized Israel’s September raid on what was apparently a Syrian nuclear installation.
Whether matters were quite that grave is an open question. Yet it does seem clear that the full story of the Israeli raid has not been told, nor its full significance recognized. Now two key members of Congress have raised an alarm about this event, thereby throwing our nuclear agreement with North Korea into question.
Peter Hoekstra and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, as senior Republicans on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees, respectively, were among the mere handful of members of Congress briefed on the Israeli air strike.
What they learned obviously dismayed them greatly, as is evident from “What Happened in Syria?” a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published by Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen this past Saturday.
Articolul lui Stanley Kurtz, din National Review Online, Oct.23, 2007,
Iran si North Korea, despre warheads si nuclear reactors,
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Our examination of diverse news accounts of the Israeli raid on the Syrian nuclear facility yields several conclusions.
First, there is significant evidence of ongoing and recent North Korean involvement. Especially given the informed criticisms of Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen, apparent efforts by select administration sources to downplay North Korean involvement appear unconvincing.
Second, especially in light of the informed concerns expressed by Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen, but also in light of press accounts, there is reason to fear significant Iranian involvement in Syria’s nuclear program, either as a facilitator, as a destination for North Korean nuclear material transiting Syria, or both.
Third, there is at least some significant evidence for direct North Korean transfer of fissile material — perhaps even a nuclear warhead — to Syria and/or Iran. That, of course, would constitute the most serious possible violation of the six-party agreement, and would be a grave threat to the security of the United States and the world.
In light of this evidence, should Congress now oppose America’s nuclear agreement with North Korea? And along with North Korea, should Iran be held to account in this affair? Perhaps.
In any case, based on an analysis of press reports, and on the informed protests of Representatives Peter Hoekstra and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, it’s clear that we need more open information before we can confidently sign on to the six-party agreement. At a minimum, the scope of congressional briefings on the Israeli raid needs to substantially increase.—
Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Photos said to show Israeli target in Syria: paper 34 minutes ago
Independent experts have satellite imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Syria's ambassador to the United Nations denied the photographs showed a nuclear site and said the only facility in the area concerned was a research center on desertification.
"There is no nuclear site in Syria," Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told reporters at the United Nations.
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said the photographs taken before the Israeli attack show buildings under construction similar in design to a North Korean reactor, the newspaper reported.
They also show what could have been a pumping station used to supply cooling water for a reactor, the Post said, citing experts David Albright and Paul Brannan of ISIS, a research group that tracks nuclear weapons and stockpiles.
Israel, an important ally to the United States in the region, has confirmed it carried out an air strike on Syria on September 6, but has not described the target. Syria said only that the target was a building under construction.
According to an ISIS report to be released on Wednesday, the Euphrates River site is just north of the desert village of At Tibnah in the region of Dayr Az Zawr and about 90 miles (145 km) from the Iraqi border, the Post reported.
Ja'afari denied the photographs showed a nuclear site and said "rumors" that they did were an attempt to distract from Israel's violation of Syrian air space.
Asked what facilities in that location might be mistaken for a nuclear facility, he said: "There is only a center for the research for deserted areas, arid and deserted areas in Syria, an Arab center for the study of the arid areas."
"We don't know for sure what was their target, but they were encountered by our air defense fire so they dropped their ammunition and their fuel tanks," Ja'afari said.
Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, said the size of the structures suggested that Syria might have been building a gas-graphite reactor similar to the one North Korea built at Yongbyon, the paper reported.
The Washington Post said some nuclear experts urged caution in interpreting the ISIS photos, noting the type of reactor favored by North Korea has few distinguishing characteristics visible from the air.
"You can look at North Korea's (reactor) buildings, and they look like nothing," John Pike, a nuclear expert and director of GlobalSecurity.org, told the Post.
The New York Times reported last week the site targeted by Israel was modeled on a facility North Korea used for stockpiling atomic bomb fuel.
Syria has one declared, small research nuclear reactor under safeguard of the International Atomic Energy Agency and has denied hiding any nuclear activity.
(Additional reporting by Claudia Parsons at the United Nations)
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Cu poze.....
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Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:18:00 AM
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roy said...
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