Syria Rebuilds on Site Destroyed by Israeli Bombs

[FreeStateDemocrat]

Source: NY Times

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: January 12, 2008
The puzzling site in Syria that Israeli jets bombed in September grew more curious on Friday with the release of a satellite photograph showing new construction there that resembles the site’s former main building.

Israel’s air attack was directed against what Israeli and American intelligence analysts had judged to be a partly constructed nuclear reactor. The Syrians vigorously denied the atomic claim.

Before the attack, satellite imagery showed a tall, square building there measuring about 150 feet long per side.

After the attack, the Syrians wiped the area clean, with some analysis calling the speed of the cleanup a tacit admission of guilt. The barren site is on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, 90 miles north of the Iraqi border.

The image released Friday came from a private company, DigitalGlobe, in Longmont, Colo. It shows a tall, square building under construction that appears to closely resemble the original structure, with the exception that the roof is vaulted instead of flat. The photo was taken from space on Wednesday.



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Atomic weapons development site destroyed without any lingering radioactive hazard and quickly safe for human use. Great cleanup job by the Syrians they could make a huge fortune cleaning up areas that are still radioactively polluted by old US nuclear weapons production plants.

[Ian David]

1. It wasn't a nuclear site. It was something even more sinister.

[hack89]

2. Kiddie WMD !! nt

[MilesColtrane]

3. Member of the Axis of 'Lil Bastards? n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Noooooooooo!

This is series.

[humbled_opinion]

4. hmmm building on a Nuke site.... what's going up

Walmart?

[Ian David]

7. The only one who said it was a nuke site was Dick Cheney's office. n/t

[daleo]

6. They should send this Syrian team to Chernobyl

Since they have such a knack for cleaning up "nuclear sites".

[ohio2007]

8. So, what is the official Syrian party line for what is being constructed on the site?

....'Senior Syrian officials continue to deny that a nuclear reactor was under construction, insisting that what Israel destroyed was a largely empty military warehouse.

'...

[martymar64]

9. Who cares, it's syria's business, not ours

If it was a nuclear reactor, then where is the radiation? Maybe Israel can plant some material there so they can have their pretense for starting a war with syria and dragging us into it.
No more US wars for Israel!

[hack89]

10. It supposedly was not operational

It is our business if Syria is breaking international law in a clandestine effort to build nuclear weapons with North Korea.

[martymar64]

11. You mean like Israel's acquisition of Nukes

Oh, wait. . . Israel's different. They get to do whatever they want.

[hack89]

13. I have no problems with countries ignoring the UN

it is one way to insure that it becomes impotent and eventually wither away.

[martymar64]

14. Then its OK for Syria and Iran to be able to get nukes

If the UN is gone, then I would happily support nukes for any nation that wants them, including Iran and Syria. It's the only way to prevent a sneak attack by the Israelis.

[hack89]

15. And how many times has Israel attacked Syria?

I can think of several time when the opposite has happened - why is Israel the threat here?

[bemildred]

16. Iran was attacked by Iraq. In the 1980s. Brutal war too.

So can Iran have nukes because it was attacked?

[hack89]

17. If nuclear proliferation will make the world a better place,

then so be it - I am for it too. :eyes:

Do you really think that any thing good will come out of a secretive, dictatorship like Syria conspiring with North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons? Is the world better served by unstable dynastic governments having the ability to destroy millions - when they are overthrown by the next group of radicals will you be OK with that too?

By your logic we should simply give up stopping the spread of nuclear weapons until all the unfairness and inequities of the the present balance of power are removed. This is stupid and a disaster for humanity. If you want to endanger all those around you just to poke a finger in Israels eye, go ahead. I will be working to first stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

[bemildred]

18. I'm just trying to acertain whether being attacked gives one the right to have nukes?

Or not?

[hack89]

19. No

Israel has nukes - a fact that will not go away. Other countries getting nukes "to balance things out" is a perverted sense or fairness that will get millions get killed.

[daleo]

20. "perverted sense of fairness"

That phrase is a keeper.

[bemildred]

21. Thanks, just wanted to get that cleared up. nt

[ohio2007]

12. It was a "military warehouse" said the official Syrian party line.

only guesses as to its purpose as a point of assembly of something. Why was it necessary to be completely wiped clean off the map ?
Why didn't the Syrians rush western journalist in to show the damage done by israeli jets ?

?
Why was al Jazeera denied access to this very same warehouse site ?

If Syria doesn't want to discuss its 'state secrets' then it's their buisness. It can't be denied a mole was paid ( by some foreign group ) for information about the warehouse that the public doesn't have a right to know as to why the need to evade Syrian radar to have it destroyed.
If it wasn't a radiation hazard.....why wasn't the UN or media allowed in to get readings ?
oh
because the Syrians did their own readings ;)