Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Suspect Syrian Site

[Flabbergasted]

Source: NYT





Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Suspect Syrian Site
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: October 26, 2007

New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.

The Right Confronts Rice Over North Korea Policy (October 25, 2007) Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to have been wiped clean since August, when imagery showed a tall square building there measuring about 150 feet on a side.

The Syrians reported an attack by Israel in early September; the Israelis have not confirmed that. Senior Syrian officials continue to deny that a nuclear reactor was under construction, insisting that Israel hit a largely empty military warehouse.

But the images, federal and private analysts say, suggest that the Syrian authorities rushed to dismantle the facility after the strike, calling it a tacit admission of guilt.

“It’s a magic act — here today, gone tomorrow,” said a senior intelligence official. “It doesn’t lower suspicions, it raises them. This was not a long-term decommissioning of a building, which can take a year. It was speedy. It’s incredible that they could have gone to that effort to make something go away.”



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/world/middleeast/26syria.html?ref=world

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This is what I was looking for.

Here is Albright's report on Syria: http://www.isis-online.org/publications/SuspectSite_24O...

Mother Jones bio David Albright: http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2005/08/albright_bio.h...

Albright April 11th 2007: "Iranian Nuclear Claims Exaggerated"
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13031/albright.html

You can also go to Google Earth and see the building in 2006(?) without the pump and secondary building.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=1037016

[Ian David]

1. Is this a "slam dunk"? Did we actually get more portable sand toilets again? n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Nope, just empty metal tubes n/t

[Hobarticus]

3. Who the hell besides Halliburton takes a year to tear down a building?

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

13. a Syrian construction project is attacked YET they are guilty for cleaning it up!?!?!

[goforit]

17. Hilarious!!!

[endarkenment]

4. All their buildings are belong to us!

Well that does it! After the Israelis got done blowing this building up: THE FUCKING SYRIANS CLEANED UP WHAT WAS LEFT!

This Means War

Oddly missing are the photos of what the site looked like after the Israeli Act of War destroyed the building.

[Phx_Dem]

5. Why didn't Syria

go to the UN and complain like they said they were going to do? It's because Syria has something to HIDE.

[Megahurtz]

6. They Already Did.

I think you blinked and missed it.

[Phx_Dem]

7. You are correct

I did miss it. Syria did not request, however, for a meeting with the Security Council, who could have taken action if they determined that the complaint was legit.

[Ammonium]

8. Look who sits on the security counsel

The United States and the United Kingdom would veto any resolution brought before the security councel concerning Israel. They always have and always will.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Inaccurate hyperbole.

"The United States and the United Kingdom would veto any resolution brought before the security councel concerning Israel. They always have and always will."

If that were even remotely true, then the constant bullshit of "Israel always defies UNSC resolutions" would also be false (it is another example of inaccurate hyperbole often used here).

[toopers]

30. Yes, you did miss it. During their complaint . . .

they actually admitted that Israel attacked their nuclear facility, but then every other Syrian politician said he misspoke.

[raebrek]

31. That's what I remember hearing too.

From what I heard it went something like this. Humor intended. Syria said, Israel has attached our Nuclear facility. The world asked Syria, What nuclear facility? Then Syria said, what nuclear facility?

Did they have a nuclear facility? I don't know.

Raebrek!!!

[goforit]

18. Well said, despite what your biased commentators say.

[roxnev]

9. after reading I believe this

That the Republican Party just likes to kill poor people, why are they building the bunker buster bombs and the planes to Carry them, what ever happened to disarmament

[Earth_First]

10. Just like the mass movement of Sadam's mobile chemical plants? n/t

[Flabbergasted]

11. Nope. nt

[Massachusetts]

14. Neat

[Algorem]

15. "...commercial satellite photos...rival companies,,,".Prove it.

i seem to remember other bullshit 'satellite photos' being put out there.




But it is the New York Times.Everyone knows they don't spout no b.s.

[tom_paine]

16. It almost looks as if they buried it and smoothed over the mound

How else could it have been done, I wonder?

[ohio2007]

19. photo shop job nt

[Zhade]

22. Honestly, it DOES look shopped.

NT!

[TripleD]

20. Where are the satillite photos...

...from after the "bombing" but before they cleaned up the site?

You'd think those photos would show something more damning than a bulldozed pile of dirt?

Perhaps it's because, before they cleaned up the site, it was more easily identifiable as something other than a nuke site?

[bemildred]

21. Yet more inflammatory speculation pulled out of someones ass. nt

[Solar_Power]

23. Gotta love satellites

[HuffleClaw]

24. cleaning up after they were attacked is suspect?

wow, that is pretty funny.

[daleo]

25. Didn't New York clean up after 911?

Didn't London clean up after the blitz? This hardly ranks as suspicious behavior.

[ohio2007]

28. and all the world was there to record it. hmmmmm

this is suspicious behavior indeed. Basher should have alowed the media access to the suspected nuke site,. Unless of course,they would have been in danger

[Scurrilous]

26. IAEA chief lashes out over Israeli raid in Syria

"Chief UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei Sunday accused Israel of taking "the law into their own hands" with a raid on Syria and demanded more information about what was hit.

Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished "any evidence at all" to prove that the Syrian site bombed last month was a secret nuclear facility, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3465002,00.html

[ohio2007]

29. Mohamed missed his chance. Basher Assad could have given him unfettered access to the site

unless ;)

btw, those bombs sure did "wipe off the face of the earth" that targetted building

the UN is such a noble group of leaders, I can't understand why they wouldn't think of asking for access to the Syrian site
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,449436,00.html

[Amonester]

27. Screen captures from GE:

For DUers who don't have it installed.

Note: Qasabi neaby (not too far away for "the need to cleanup" (Depleted-Uranium poison?)).



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