Comments on: NYT Says Syria Target Was Nuke Plant

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:40:27 +0000

It’s pleasing to see so many people not buying the BS propaganda. I’m so jaded with the willy-nilly pressing of the “nuclear threat” button. It’s getting old.

By: George

George — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:49:27 +0000

The US should take some lessons from Israel. We take to much crap off of other countries.If we were to follow Israel’s lead,the other countries would stop all the crap toward the US.We are just too soft and wait to long to take action.

By: Trent Telenko

Trent Telenko — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:29:16 +0000

Christian,
>The issue raised by the raid seems now to be
>what is the threshold of preemption when it
>comes to nuclear facilities? The report says the
>Syrian plant was basically a few sheds in the
>desert

By: Rix

Rix — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:47:36 +0000

I believe people are confusing nuclear reactors with uranium enrichment plants. Reactors are big and impossible to hide due to the massive cooling towers required. Uranium enrichment plants can be just a shed or two, assuming they have massive electrical power supply. It is easy to hide a U-enrichment program, the NK’s hid ‘em for years, and Iran hid Natanz for years until a defector gave them away.

By: killo serafin

killo serafin — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:30:06 +0000

THATS WHAT I LIKE ABOUT ISRAEL THEY DON’T WAIT FOR
SOMEBODY TO THROUGH THE FIRST PUNCH. ISRAEL WON’T
TAKE ANY CRAP FROM SOME COUNTRY THAT MAKES REMARKS
OF MAYBE ATTACKING IT. IAM FOR ISRAEL ALL THE WAY,
MORE POWER TO THEM.

By: diablotakahe

diablotakahe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:53:13 +0000

hmmm — think everyone’s in a glass house on that one Whatever.
There’s a war on, on multiple fronts. lots of raids happen all the time. some are more or less reported than others.
so the idf has bombed some syrian targets.
war enters another phase. i think that’s whats being said here. the idf’s in the game again, after being out for a while after bombing lebanese targets.

By: diablotakahe

diablotakahe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:51:58 +0000

By: Whatever

Whatever — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:41:44 +0000

“heck even the United States had to be attacked before we did anything about terrorism.“
No. You funded Irish “terrorism” in the UK for years and only reacted to “terrorism” when you suffered the consequences of it.
Talk about double standards — live by the sword, die by the sword.

By: 22lr

22lr — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:02:14 +0000

Why would they not defend there “sacred” soil. That just donst make any sense, also think of the political victory if they had brought down an airplane, even a stupid Syrian could figure that one out. Israel hit something, and we dont now what it was. But anyways, im glad they blew up what ever they blew up, one less problem to worry about.

By: Mark Pyruz

Mark Pyruz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:32:20 +0000

From Alastair Crooke @ Conflicts Forum:
“The Syrians saw on their radars the four Israeli aircraft that penetrated into Northern Syria from the Mediterranean; but they also saw the much larger numbers of Israeli aircraft that were flying in a holding position close to Cyprus. The Syrians had no intention of disclosing their anti-aircraft missile capacities to Israel; and the intruders continued without hindrance to drop munitions and their long-range fuel tanks without pressing any serious attack. The four aircraft then circuited to re-join the larger group still flying a holding pattern off Cyprus, before all returned to Israel as a single formation.“
“The Israeli objective remains a matter of speculation (no-one seriously credits the stories of North Korean nuclear malfeasance); but the general conclusion is that Israel was only ready to run such a risk against unknown air defenses either to test reactions; or, given the size of the numbers of aircraft off Cyprus, to destroy some target