IAEA finds evidence of nuclear activity at Syrian al-Kibar site
What a difference a new director general makes! The IAEA announced on Thursday that uranium particles found at the site of the al-Kibar facility in Syria that was destroyed by Israel in September 2007 indicate that covert nuclear activity was going on at the site. It was the first time the International Atomic Energy Agency lent public support to Western suspicions that Israel's target was a nascent nuclear reactor that Washington said was North Korean in design and geared to making weapons-grade plutonium.If only ElBaradei had been replaced four years ago, we'd probably not be as close to a major crisis as we are today.
Previous IAEA reports on its two-year investigation into the affair, impeded by a lack of Syrian cooperation, said only that the uranium particles raised concern because they did not come from Syria's declared inventory.
"The presence of such particles points to the possibility of nuclear-related activities at the site and adds to questions concerning the nature of the destroyed building," said the confidential report by new IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano, obtained by Reuters.
"Syria has yet to provide a satisfactory explanation for the origin and presence of these particles," he wrote, dismissing Damascus's contention that the traces came with munitions used by Israel to wreck the complex.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:33 PM
1 Comments:
"If only ElBaradei had been replaced four years ago, we'd probably not be as close to a major crisis as we are today."
If only, hah? Anyone care to explore why the administration before was silent or at the very least did nothing about him?
It all revolves around Iraq doesn't it? So all those American lives lost there to put in a phony democracy which in the end refuses to even allow Israel to fly over!
Our blind trust! Face it no matter who is president Israel is sacrificed while terrorists like Assad come out squeaky clean. All is forgiven.
In the end Assad comes out clean while Israel is more of a pariah then ever; while Iran is poised to wipe Israel off the map.
No one has stepped one inch beyond the awful decision to not bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz. Not our friends and certainly not our foes.
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