Syrian Fist Shows No Sign of Unclenching

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More evidence was announced Friday that Syria is running a clandestine nuclear program: Syria samples reveal more uranium.

The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria.

Syria denied the site was a nuclear reactor and alleged the uranium traces found there came from Israeli missiles fired on it in September 2007.

But the International Atomic Energy Agency said the probability of the uranium coming from missiles was low.

The IAEA called on Syria to co-operate more with its inquiry.

I’m sure they’ll get right on that.

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53 comments
1 Randall Gross  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:37:17am

Meanwhile the march to stop missile defenses continues as the Obama administration has probably traded the European missile defense program for supply routes to Afghanistan.

2 Athens Runaway  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:39:09am

Don't they realize that Teh Oen wants us to just all get along? Someone send them a Coke, so they can sing in perfect harmony.

3 Randall Gross  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:39:21am

I see folks are sleeping in this morn. Also in the article:

Iran report

The IAEA also reported on Thursday that Iran has slowed the expansion of its uranium enrichment plant but had built up its stockpile of nuclear fuel.

The agency said Iran had only slightly increased the number of centrifuges refining uranium - a process that can produce fuel for civilian energy or atomic weapons.

But Iran's reported stockpile of low-enriched uranium had risen to 1,010kg.

4 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:40:36am
The IAEA called on Syria to co-operate more with its inquiry.

Proof that the opthalmology profession knows how to use the middle finger followed the IAES's request.

5 Randall Gross  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:40:57am

Don't worry folks, Lurch is hopeful....

/change!

6 Athens Runaway  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:41:17am

re: #3 Thanos

We have the Alfred E. Neuman School of Foreign Policy in charge here.

What me worry about non-rational actors with nukes?

7 gunslingah  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:41:49am

I imagine the Syrians will show the same degree of cooperation with the IAEA as they have shown with the UN investigation into Hariri's assassination.

8 yochanan  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:43:05am

Lieberman meet Lieberman

[Link: www.daylife.com...]

9 calcajun  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:43:40am

But John Kerry is over there kissing up to them. How come they still don't like us.


I say we drop Chris Hitchens on them.

10 wiffersnapper  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:44:40am

Obama's diplomacy: currently 0-8 on the season.

11 Truck Monkey  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:45:02am

The Israelis will be left to clean up this, among other, messes in their neighborhood while being blamed by the rest of the world for its provocative actions. Through the looking glass we go......

12 Truck Monkey  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:45:51am

re: #10 wiffersnapper

Obama's diplomacy: currently 0-8 on the season.

The Detroit Lions of the world stage.

13 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:45:53am

re: #5 Thanos

Don't worry folks, Lurch is hopeful....

/change!

In other news, after the meeting, Bashar Assad praised the American Senator for his patriotism. "This is the kind of man I enjoy working with," Assad said.

/

14 derbigdog  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:46:10am

re: #5 Thanos

I was wondering why Senator Kerry was willing to trust the Syrians, then I remembered they were a former French colony! He loves anyone who can speak french!

15 Blackacre  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:48:16am

re: #9 calcajun

"But John Kerry is over there kissing up to them. How come they still don't like us."

Maybe it's because John Kerry is over there with them.

16 pingjockey  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:50:17am

Yep. if I was some 3rd world dictator, Jon halp uz Cary would make me worry. NOT!

17 jaunte  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:50:25am

re: #13 pre-Boomer Marine brat

In other news, after the meeting, Bashar Assad praised the American Senator for his patriotism. "This is the kind of man I enjoy working with," Assad said.

/

What is your American saying? "He plays just like a fiddle."

18 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:54:57am

re: #17 jaunte

What is your American saying? "He plays just like a fiddle."

Especially in the hands of someone who's so skilled at violins.

19 Maximu§  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:58:09am

re: #1 Thanos

Meanwhile the march to stop missile defenses continues as the Obama administration has probably traded the European missile defense program for supply routes to Afghanistan.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these missile defenses were going to protect Europe? Seems to me like they should defend themselves. Let Europe build their own missile shield.

Regarding Syria and the rest of the Middle_East, the Obama Administration continues to screw up everything they touch. Its sad that in this critical point in history, America has these stupid angry people in charge.

20 dmh0667  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 8:59:28am
'The IAEA called on Syria to co-operate more with its inquiry.'

I’m sure they’ll get right on that.

But they are cooperating! The Syrians are playing "obi-Wan Kenobi" perfectly to the IAEA and JF Kerry's "Imperial Storm-Troopers" in the usual Internationalist Kabuki Show;

"These are not the WMDs you are looking for...."

21 RobCon  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:00:06am

10 minutes to midnight. Funny how you don't hear much about the nuclear clock anymore. Now that it is Iran, Syria and North Korea are the ones that need to be stopped, the left has no more use for it.

22 dmh0667  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:01:06am
Its sad that in this critical point in history, America has these stupid angry America-hating people in charge.
Maximu§ 2/22/09 8:58:09 am

FIFY

23 realwest  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:03:36am

re: #9 calcajun I left two comments for you (#1123 and #1125) on the prior thread and ask that you kindly read them.

24 guest77  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:09:34am
Syria denied the site was a nuclear reactor and alleged the uranium traces found there came from Israeli missiles fired on it in September 2007.

Of course, blame the Jooos! After all, according to most Muslims, the Joos caused 9/11, the Joos massacred the Palestinians in Gaza, the Joos are responsible for the economic meltdown, the Joos control the media, Joo physicians take Arab internal organs for transplants in other Joos, Joos caused the AIDS epidemic, Joos use the blood of Palestinian children blood to make matzo on Passover, etc., etc.

Got to go now, I've got a hankering' for some of that tasty Palestinian blood.

25 Wm T Sherman  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:17:51am

I want to know if the uranium is enriched.

As far as uranium being used in aircraft bombs - no. Even deep-penetrating bombs are made of high-strength steel.

26 calcajun  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:20:21am

re: #23 realwest

I left two comments for you (#1123 and #1125) on the prior thread and ask that you kindly read them.

Go back and look. Sorry if you are a big Jefferson fan, but as Churchill said of Ramsey MacDonald, "There's a lot less there than meets the eye."

27 Achilles Tang  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:25:23am

re: #25 Wm T Sherman

I want to know if the uranium is enriched.

As far as uranium being used in aircraft bombs - no. Even deep-penetrating bombs are made of high-strength steel.

The Syrians are referring to depleted uranium projectiles (bullets) that are used for armor piercing guns. Anti tank and the like. They are very heavy and therefore pack a hell of a punch for the size.These have been claimed to poison Iraq by the US as well as Israel whenever they fire anything.

As a weapon, would never be used to destroy large buildings.

They are not significantly radioactive (hence "depleted") but the Arab street knows that everyone is trying to poison them, so it is a stock response by Syria for domestic consumption only.

28 hopperandadropper  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:35:09am

Rule number 1: Don't count on a guy named Mohammed to protect you from crazy Muslims who want to kill you.

29 freedombilly  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:37:15am

Syria might be the last country on earth that I would want to have a nuclear weapon. There are a lot of nominees for that title but I think Syria takes the cake.

30 MJBrutus  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:47:56am

Sure they will. Right after they turn over Harriri's killer. Any second now. Any second. Soon. No really, it here it comes. I think I just heard something! Nope, just a cricket. Any second now ...

31 Abu Kuffar  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:51:32am

re: #24 guest77

Don't forget that jooos cause global warming as well

///

32 canadianally  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 9:56:19am

I am sure that Obama will keep the Norks, Iran, Syria, Russia, China, and Hamas in check. LOL. And, if he doesn't, the UN will!

33 nyc redneck  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:06:09am

o should have learned by now that his approach to dealing w/ the jihadis is a failure. at least from the perspective of the civilized world.
the barbarians are seizing every opportunity that is afforded them by o's
ignorance.
he is looking like a facilitator.
if he continues this behavior we will know that he meant it when he said,
when an ill wind blows, he will stand w/ the moslems.

34 notutopia  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:17:48am

Obama and his minions are busy ass kissing Assad, his plans to deter Iran is nothing new, and Hillary is being booed in China, as millions of citizens are jobless and we feign, "Buy American". North Korea is threatening war. Russia and Dubai are laughing at all this and at us. We're sending massive troop placements into Afghanistan, with Pakistan and India threatening to implode. Hey, our own Foreign Envoys from the US are not doing so well themselves.
Compound this with an ineffective UN and IAEA, what do we need to be concerned about?
/
The UN and the IAEA are corrupt, lazy, self aggrandizing fronts for liberal world policy and liberal agenda projects and fund corruption and discourse every where they conduct their business.
Concerned? You bet I'm concerned!

35 realwest  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:21:39am

re: #26 calcajun Ah, sorry to be so late here, but real life interrupted me; I did respond to your comments on the "DT" today.
Thank you.

36 blangwort  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:24:10am

The Left is simply incapable of wrapping their minds around the utter hostility and hatred that Arab Religious authorities spew on a regular basis. This is why they don't see the hazard of a country such a Iran or Syria enriching Uranium. So we use diplomacy to stop them. Yeah, that'll work. We'll talk to them while they're busy building the stuff they'll use to kill us.

Are we going to wait for them to actually detonate a bomb on some western city before we launch a wholesale ICBM at them? I suppose this is what the left blasted GWB for. No pre-emptive war.

How uncivilized.

37 Perpetua  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:35:42am

re: #36 blangwort

The Left is simply incapable of wrapping their minds around the utter hostility and hatred that Arab Religious authorities spew on a regular basis. This is why they don't see the hazard of a country such a Iran or Syria enriching Uranium. So we use diplomacy to stop them. Yeah, that'll work. We'll talk to them while they're busy building the stuff they'll use to kill us.

Are we going to wait for them to actually detonate a bomb on some western city before we launch a wholesale ICBM at them? I suppose this is what the left blasted GWB for. No pre-emptive war.

How uncivilized.


I think this is partly true. Some on the left are truly good hearted and naive. But many others share a hatred of the West that causes them to identlfy with the Arabs. So deep down they actually support the destruction of the "imperialist" Western civilization. And they don't notice that Islam is a form of imperialism.

38 Karagush  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:35:58am

re: #9 calcajun

But John Kerry is over there kissing up to them. How come they still don't like us.

I say we drop Chris Hitchens on them.

"NO NO F*K You!" diplomacy?
Im down with that.

39 Stonemason  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:37:41am

The inanity of all of this never ceases to amaze me. How can an agency justify the contradictions?
They are lying to us, so we asked them not to?

It is a good thing that has worked every time!

/

40 [deleted]  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:38:41am
41 [deleted]  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:49:19am
42 Taqyia2Me  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:50:38am

Fuck John Kerry.

43 [deleted]  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 10:52:20am
44 Taqyia2Me  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 11:00:31am

My blood's been boiling ever I saw the pic yesterday of him and Asshat (Syria's version). Reminded me of his Viet Nam treason.

45 Brees  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 11:07:06am

The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria.

Alleged? Just like Syria is alleged sponsors of terror?

Oh wait! They are good guys, right? They were on our side in the '91 Gulf War.
Just like Egypt too!

I think.

46 So?  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 11:32:58am

The clock is ticking. Netenyahu must keep his promise and destroy all Iranian nuke facilities soon. A message must be sent to not only to the Arab world, but to Russia, China & N. Korea. The latter 3 scum bag countries are the ones providing all the necessary technology.

47 So?  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 11:34:59am

The UN nuclear agency = The UN unclear agency


amazing they've never caught that typo before

48 blangwort  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 11:35:23am

re: #37 Perpetua

The mantra that the enemy of my enemy is my friend is a major stumbling block for many on the left. The enemies of your enemies are your allies, not your friends. There is a difference. Too many on the left miss this nuanced view. So they'll shill for the very people who espouse values that do not coincide with their own. How else can one explain those Lesbians for Palestine?

This is either stupid or dishonest. I've been waiting years for someone to come forward to convince me that I'm wrong about this.

49 barry the baptist  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 12:22:19pm

This is a damn shame.

I said a long time ago and SADLY ENOUGH that the only thing that might bring us out of this fallacy of being in a la-la land was going to be a major terror attack on our soil. I am afraid that it's going to take something of magnitude to reverse the course of the nation--and I hate to say that. I also hate to think that some of us ARE TARGETS for this whole thing to happen. I also hate to think that--if something very bad happens here that our leaders might explain such events away as the 9-11 truthers tried (trying) to do.

This is a damn shame.

It seems that we did not learn our lessons back in the 1930's. Everyone wants peace, and that's great, but not at the cost of lives. How many lives, I ask, are the toll for taking significant action to end this threat to us and to the world? It took total WAR to rid us of the evils of the 3rd Reich and Bushido's in Japan. It took a man with GUTS to out maneuver the USSR and end the Cold War. What will it take now? Words are meaningless to these people. Only action--and STRONG action beget change. Until we do that....it's all just bullshit.

We are in big trouble.

50 mindy1  Sun, Feb 22, 2009 5:32:12pm

I do want diplomacy, but don't think we can get it with our's and the worlds current leadership.

51 AZDave  Mon, Feb 23, 2009 10:48:52am

Open their fists? Won't they have to open their minds first?

Fat chance!

52 AZDave  Mon, Feb 23, 2009 10:54:49am

re: #1 Thanos

Meanwhile the march to stop missile defenses continues as the Obama administration has probably traded the European missile defense program for supply routes to Afghanistan.

Either that or a percentage of the poppy trade.

53 AZDave  Mon, Feb 23, 2009 10:59:08am

re: #28 hopperandadropper

Rule number 1: Don't count on a guy named Mohammed to protect you from crazy Muslims who want to kill you.

And Rule number 2: See Rule number 1.


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