Syria Rejects Claims Of N. Korea Nuke Ties

U.S. Suggestion Of A North Korean-Funded Nuclear Program Prompts Syrian Outcry

(CBS/AP)  Syria and North Korea denied Tuesday they are cooperating on a Syrian nuclear program, and they accused U.S. officials of spreading the allegations for political reasons -- either to back Israel or to block progress on a deal between Washington and Pyongyang.

A front-page editorial in the government newspaper Tishrin also was critical of the United States for failing to condemn a Sept. 6 Israeli incursion, which it called a violation of international law.

Israel has clamped a tight lid of military censorship over its air raid against Syria, but U.S. officials tell CBS News that the strike destroyed a building Israeli intelligence believed housed nuclear equipment, and that it was launched three days after a North Korean ship docked at a Syrian port.

U.S. officials say the arrival of that ship triggered the strike against the building which had been under surveillance by an Israeli satellite sent into orbit last June, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

Syria has said only that warplanes entered its airspace, came under fire from anti-aircraft defenses, and dropped munitions and fuel tanks to lighten their loads while they fled.

Andrew Semmel, acting deputy assistant secretary of state for nuclear nonproliferation policy, said Syria may have had contacts with “secret suppliers” to obtain nuclear equipment. He did not identify the suppliers, but said North Koreans were in Syria and that he could not exclude involvement by the network run by the disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.

Former CIA officer Bruce Riedel says the stakes could not have been higher, adds Martin.

“This was a strike deep inside of Syria, a very audacious move at a time when Israel and Syria have had increasing war fevers. The Israelis must have been going after a very sensitive and important target to take that kind of a risk,” says Riedel.

U.S. officials say they do not know for sure what was in the building, but agree with the Israelis that there are signs Syria is trying to acquire a nuclear capability, adds Martin.

“I think for the Syrians, there's only one logical place to look, and that's North Korea. We know North Korea can produce nuclear weapons so that's the address you would go to," said Riedel.

North Korea strongly denied it secretly helped Syria develop a nuclear program, maintaining the charge was fabricated by U.S. hard-liners to block progress in the North's relations with the United States.

A Syrian Cabinet minister ridiculed the speculation about any cooperation with North Korea.

“All this rubbish is not true. I don't know how their imagination has reached such creativity,” Bouthaina Shaaban said.

“Regretfully, the international press is busy justifying an aggression on a sovereign state and the world should be busy condemning it instead of inventing reasons and aims of this aggression,” he told Lebanon's Hezbollah TV station Al-Manar.

North Korea recently agreed to dismantle its program. Selling its equipment to Syria would fly in the face of U.S. warnings not to transfer nuclear technology. For Syria, a nuclear warhead atop a scud missile would serve as an equalizer against Israel. Martin reports that U.S. officials do not believe Syria is close to acquiring a nuclear weapon, and say the Israeli air strike was intended as a warning: Don’t even think about it.

In Vienna, officials for the International Atomic Energy Agency declined comment. But a diplomat associated with the agency said the IAEA “didn't know anything about any nuclear facility in Syria, and if there is something there, we should know.”

[lastdance2]

In The Year 2000
Former : Defense Secretary Rumsfeld - Was involved in selling
a Nuclear Plant to : North Korea
Along with the technology to refine : Uranium and produce Plutonium.
The main ingredients of a : Nuclear Weapon

More Nuclear Plants are scheduled to be Built in
China This Year (2007 - 2008) by : Criminal Corporate (Nazi) America
More nuclear power plants in China - More "Nuclear Missiles " In China

China allied to : %u201CNorth Korea%u201D allied to %u201CSyria%u201D allied to: %u201C Iran%u201D
Each Country - Hostile to the - United States
Now ! ! - All exchanging Nuclear Weapon Technology

Fine act of Patriotism to - North Korea - Syria - and Iran
Demonstrated By : Criminal Corporate (Nazi) America
The Republican (Nazi) Party

There was a time - Treason - was a : Criminal Act

Lastdance

[draftreid]

pwrslm,

good show.

Obviously the moveon.org folks are not too happy. They''d love Syria, Iran AND North Korea to obtain nukes and deliver them - on Israel, and then on us.

Then Hillary and Boy Obama would wring their hands and make all kinds of excuses - just as they are doing now - NOT to obliterate Ahmedinejedad and his terror state.

We had the chance to do so when another Democratic Coward and Bigot dropped the ball back in 1979. If we - God forbid - are even nuked by the Iranians, and that peanut *** is still alive, he should be hanged in the rubble of our city - while we do what he should have done back in November 1979.

When the Israelis finally get rid of Olmert, as they should, hopefully the next PM there will deal with Assad the way he and his daddy should have been dealt with - not by a feigele like ehud barak.

[pwrslm]

pwrslm: ''''By way of Deception'''', is the moto of an important Israeli political organisation.
Posted by Goatdung

Another conspiracy theory? I bring you facts in the real world, and you spit nazi rhetoric?


hehe...at least you took your best shot!

[grazinggoat]

Posted by pwrslm at 07:54 PM : Sep 18, 2007
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-pwrslump: ''By way of Deception'', is the moto of an important Israeli political organisation.

[sevenveils]

Syria is not a signatory of either the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), - an international agreement banning the production, stockpiling or use of chemical weapons - or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT.

Globalsecurity.org cites Syria as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East. A major chemical warfare accident in July killed dozens of Iranian Engineers and 15 Syrian Engineers/soldiers when a chemical warhead exploded when being installed on a SCUD missle.

Remember, pound for pound, dirty nuclear bombs are more destructive than a nuclear explosion because the radiation is not released as explosive energy, thus emitting its deadly radiation for centuries.

Chernobyl is an example of a dirty bomb. How many people are living there today? In case you don''t know, it''s a ghost town.

[pwrslm]

The code Islam lives by;

You can lie if it is to decieve the enemy.

The enemy is every person who does not adhere to Sharia.

Do not make peace/friends with the Jews and Christians, only make a hudna, or a temporary peace, while you build your strength until you can fight and win.

It is a crime to kill a Muslim. It is not a crime to kill a non muslim. If you kill a Jew, you will be rewarded in heaven.

If you kill non muslim children, it is not a crime. If you die while you do it, you will be rewarded in heaven.

Its ok to kill muslim children if you blame it on the enemy, to bring disgrace and discord among non muslims.

Islams mandate in the Koran is to recover the property of Allah, and allah owns the world. Any infidel that refuses to submit to Islams authority, or convert to Islam, is your enemy. Any non Islamic nation that refuses to convert or submit to Sharia has committed an offense against Allah, and all muslims are ordered to fight against those who offend the right religion.

The only guarantee you have to get to heaven is to die while fighting for Islam. Hell is full of women, because they cant fight. All those you conquer are your slaves, all of the possesions they have are booty, and you must give 10% to the Imams.

[v_1618]

YEAH WHAT A KRAP.. THE U.S. AND THE NATO CLUB ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE A CONSPIRACY TO GO TO WAR WITH IRAN AND THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST

[sociallyjust]

We MUST maintain nothing less than constant vigilance in regard to the role(s) that Syria plays. Based upon its;
1. terrorist history
2. teachings of hate
3. decades of ''being in bed'' with Iran
4. attempts to procure nuclear, chem and bio weapons (of mass destruction)
5. mass murder of internal opponents
6. engaging in continuous deception
... to state a few ...
Make no mistake about it. The dangers and horrible consequences which Syrian policy portends, should never be minimized!

[killtheliars]

And now another horrible suspicion is crossing their minds. Did Bush''s Israel-first advisers invade Iraq in order to assure that Israel would have easy access to oil?

A March 31 Ha''aretz article reported upcoming plans to reopen a long-unused pipeline from Iraq''s Kirkuk oil fields to the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel''s National Infrastructure Minister Joseph Paritzky suggested that after Saddam Hussain''s departure Iraqi oil could flow to the Jewish state, to be consumed or marketed from there.

This is the real reason for wanting the current Syrian government out. Notice it does not just say oil for consumption, it says oil to be marketed. Israel wants to start dealing in oil even though there is none under their country. Since they really don''t have any natural resources they will eventually have to find a way to create revenue. since nobody in the region wants to do business with them they probably will not be able to rely on the service industry either. If the U.S. market crashes they will loose their investments as well. This however should not be anybody elses problem.