Syria discounts report by IAEA on nuclear reactor claims

Syria discounts report by IAEA on nuclear reactor claims

Isreal would never 'salt a mine'.

Accusing others of being misunderstood. Now dont that beat all.

I hate the way you spell, they are always wrong.

F*** them and their bull, they won’t stop because you’ve maintained presence elsewhere and done it well. To the benefit of an entire contry who lost their eyesight and can’t get it back. Who doesn’t have intel in that country? They are not ready to deal with the world, I hate this redundant argument. and if i had my way I would steal it back. So do that all of you together one time instead of arguing pretext and bs.

All bluster and bravado aside

Syria has been caught red handed doing exactly what Iran has been doing and saying they are not!
Developing nukes is dirty expensive business!
Had Israel not targetted exactly what they said and leveled the nuclear development site you can bet Syria would have been screaming bloody murder!
Hey Syria what other WMD are you hiding?

poor you without midnight to get you over the hump...

Sometimes it an oxymoron, as in this case.

Sometimes it to allow the weak a chance to blister themselves.

Sometimes it age reflection.

Sometimes there is little value in taking additional time.

Sometimes its the belief, the truly knowledgible can easily see the correct and know an adjacent key was your villain.

If you on the otherhand would only post at midnight, I am sure your rate of being understood would greatly increase.

Fearless W givin' `em what for...
:cool:
US Hits IAEA’s El-Baradei Over Syria Nuclear Assistance
24 November 2008 - The Bush administration has rebuked International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Mohamed ElBaradei over the U.N. agency’s plans to help Syria with a civilian nuclear-power program. The State Department said such assistance, at a time when the IAEA is investigating a suspected secret Syrian nuclear reactor, is wholly inappropriate.

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The State Department has delivered an unusual public rebuke to the IAEA chief, after Mohamed ElBaradei said technical assistance to Damascus on civilian nuclear power should go forward despite an ongoing agency inquiry into Syrian activities. The IAEA has been investigating a remote facility in northern Syria that was bombed and destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September of last year. The United States subsequently released aerial photos of the site and other evidence suggesting the building was a partially-completed nuclear reactor, perhaps being built with North Korean help.

IAEA officials in a preliminary report last week said the wrecked building strongly resembled a nuclear reactor, and that traces of uranium had been discovered amid the ruins. Nonetheless, ElBaradei said Syria has a right to IAEA help on a proposed civilian power reactor, and that there is no legal basis for denying Syria a $350,000 assistance package from the U.N. agency. The position drew a sharp rejoinder from State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack:

“It is wholly inappropriate, we believe, given the fact that Syria is under investigation by the IAEA for building a nuclear reactor, outside the bounds of its international commitments. And for the IAEA to be involved in providing technical information concerning nuclear activities would seem to be contradictory, it not ironic," he said. Syria denies concealing nuclear activities. But the preliminary IAEA report last week said Syria had not heeded requests for documentation on the building destroyed by the Israelis, and refused repeated requests for IAEA personnel to visit three other sites believed linked to the alleged reactor.

U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Greg Schulte said last Friday the report reinforced the U.S. assessment that Syria was secretly building a nuclear reactor in violation of IAEA safeguards obligations. The Bush administration has had a tense relationship with the IAEA’s ElBaradei, who U.S. officials say often takes a benign view of reports indicating secret nuclear weapons activity by Iran.

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Yellow cake where for art thou?

So how much of Saddams Yellow cake did Syria get and how much did Israeli missile strikes eat?

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm

To all those who daid Bush lied and people Died I guess this is the biggest in your face there is....Of course some won’t believe the truth even if the yellow cake was served to them on a plate.




500 Tons of Uranium Yellowcake Secretly Moved From Iraq to Canada-Truth!


Summary of the eRumor:
Various commentaries and news agency reports about radio active concentrates of uranium known as “yellowcake” being secretly transported from Iraq to a base in Canada.

The Truth:
This eRumor started circulating in August, 2008.
“Yellowcake” (or “yellowcakes”) is a concentrate of uranium that results from the refinement of uranium ore. It is used for making fuel for nuclear power plants and to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
On July 7, 2008 the American Forces Press Service released a statement of the completion of a classified mission dubbed “Operation McCall” to transfer 500 metric tons of yellowcake at the request of the Iraqi government from Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center near Baghdad to Canada. Click here to read the story posted on the Department of Defense site.

According to published reports including CBS news, the United States secretly moved a huge stockpile of yellowcake over a two week period, from Iraq to Canada, partly to keep it from falling into the hands of either terrorists or foreign governments such as Iran.

The operation was reportedly more than a year in the making and took three months to execute. It included carrying 3,500 barrels of yellowcake by road from Baghdad, then flying them on 37 military flights to an atoll in the Indian Ocean, then carrying them aboard a U.S. ship bound for Montreal. In all, it added up to more than 500 metric tons of material from Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium company and it will be used in Ontario, Canada, for use in nuclear reactors.

A CBS report said, “And, in a symbolic way, the mission linked the current attempts to stabilize Iraq with some of the high-profile claims about Saddam’s weapons capabilities in the buildup to the 2003 invasion. Accusations that Saddam had tried to purchase more yellowcake from the African nation of Niger - and an article by a former U.S. ambassador refuting the claims - led to a wide-ranging probe into Washington leaks that reached high into the Bush administration. "

The news report went on to say that the yellowcake “had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991."

updated 11/17/08


A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
Version #1:

On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP)
released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq.

The opening paragraph is as follows:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, Bush lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam’s yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam’s nuclear ambitions, one would think the
mainstream media would report the story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.

This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush’s war motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said,

The removal of 550 metric tons of yellowcake the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy.

Closing the book on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied. As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife.

Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof.

During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in “expanding commercial relations” for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake.

Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki’s remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger.

However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003.

Outraged by Bush’s insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.

Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki’s claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who
was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister’s statements.

It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase
yellowcake from Niger, it would undermine President Bush’s credibility and give them more cause for asking what other lies he may have told.

Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister’s statements and concluded all by
himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was “unequivocally wrong." Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.

Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage — no friend of the Bush administration — who leaked Plame’s identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years.

The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the
blogosphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam’s uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don’t count on it. The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam’s uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get.

As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that, “Bush lied," we should tell them to, “Have the yellowcake and eat it too."



Version #2:

A national defense analyst says President Bush should be commended for keeping quiet about a discovery that could have blown his critics out of the water.

Retired Major General Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran who served as an Army aviator, paratrooper, and Ranger during a military career that began during the Korean conflict. He recently wrote on his blog about a very under reported story by the Associated Press.

According to the report, a large stockpile of concentrated natural Uranium, known as “yellowcake," reached a Canadian port to complete a top secret U.S. Operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad, and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. The Uranium material had been housed at a former Iraqi nuclear complex 12 miles from Baghdad.

Curry says the president kept mum about the discovery in order to keep terrorists in the dark. “He made a very brave stand, a resolute stand..., in which he decided that he wasn’t going to blab everything to the press," Curry commends. "...And in the meantime while he kept it quiet, he was buying time from the terrorists to get all that stuff out of the country. So that’s what was done — he just very quietly kept his mouth shut."

“The press beat him to death for the last several years," he continues, “and now it turns out that, yes, there were weapons of mass destruction...." Curry also maintains that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear program and the material could have been made into a nuclear weapon.

President Bush’s actions took courage, he notes, and all Americans should be thankful to have such a brave president who puts the welfare of the American people above personal considerations.