"Israel
admits to Syria air strike," BBC News, October 2, 2007
[They said it would have been years before the Syrians could have used the
reactor to produce the spent nuclear fuel that could, through a series of
additional steps, be reprocessed into bomb-grade plutonium.--David E. Sanger
and Mark Mazzetti, "Analysts
Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria,"
Washington Post, October 14, 2007]
[The Syrian project has been going nowhere for 40 years, as Joseph
Cirincione, author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
and a senior fellow and director for nuclear policy at the Center for
American Progress, informs us:
"It is a basic research program built around a tiny 30 kilowatt reactor that
produced a few isotopes and neutrons. It is nowhere near a program for
nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel."--Justin Raimondo, "The Dair El Zor
Hoax," antiwar.com, October 15, 2007]
[US intelligence 'found no radiation signatures after the bombing, so there
was no uranium or plutonium present,'--Justin Raimondo, "The
Syrian 'Nuke' Hoax," antiwar.com, October 19, 2007]
[ElBaradei said he had no information that North Korea had been supplying
nuclear know-how to Syria and noted the U.N. charter only permitted the use
of force in the face of an imminent threat or with the prior approval of the
world body.--Jon Boyle, "Iran
seen to need 3-8 yrs to produce bomb," Reuters, October 22, 2007]
"IAEA
chief criticizes Israel over Syria raid," Reuters, October 28, 2007
"'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site',"
Jerusalem Post, November 2, 2007
William J. Borad, "Syria
Rebuilds on Site Destroyed by Israeli Bombs," New York Times, January 12, 2008
[A senior Syrian official confirmed that a group of North Koreans had been
at work at the site, but he denied that the structure was related to
chemical warfare. . . .
There is evidence that the pre‘mptive raid on Syria was also meant as a
warning about - and a model for - a preemptive attack on Iran.--Seymour M. Hersh,
"What
did Israel bomb in Syria?," New Yorker, February 11, 2008]
Gordon Prather, "Another Act of
War," antiwar.com, February 9, 2008
Robin Wright, "N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor: Video Played a
Role in Israeli Raid," Washington Post, April 24, 2008
[Cheney and allies in Congress and the media are also using the Syrian
reactor hubbub to undermine efforts by the U.S. state department, a primary
hate object for neocons, to implement the nuclear weapons freeze with North
Korea. State department boss Condoleezza Rice has run for cover, leaving her
chief negotiator with North Korea to twist in the wind.--Eric Margolis, "The neoconning of a nation ," Toronto Sun,
April 27, 2008]
[Partial results of samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel show nothing
to back up U.S. assertions that the target was a secret nuclear reactor,
diplomats said Saturday.--George Jahn, "Diplomats:
Syria passes 1st test of nuclear probe," Associated Press, September
20, 2008]
[Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, finds it "baffling" that there are apparently no commercial
satellite pictures available of a site in Syria taken in the months just
after the Israelis allegedly destroyed whatever was allegedly there prior to
September 6th, 2007.--Gordon Prather, "Smoking Satellite
Pics," antiwar.com, November 29, 2008]
"AP Exclusive: Syria says it will cooperate on
nuclear probe but US pushes for UN referral," Associated Press, May
29, 2011
[There is no evidence, say investigators, that the plant in the city of
Al-Hasakah was ever used for nuclear purposes - it is currently in use as a
cotton-spinning plant - but its design, combined with the existence of a
second suspected nuclear facility bombed by Israeli warplanes in 2007,
suggests a strong possibility that Syria was at one point pursuing
nuclear-weapons capability much more vigorously than was previously
supposed.--"UN
fears Pakistani rogue scientist passed on nuclear secrets to Syria,"
Independent, November 2, 2011]
Joby Warrick, "That secret nuclear facility in Syria? It's a
textile factory, researchers say in new report," washingtonpost.com,
November 4, 2011
David Makovsky, "The Silent Strike: How Israel bombed a Syrian nuclear installation and
kept it secret," newyorker.com, September 17, 2012
Hans Ruhle, "Assad
'nuclear factory' claim a hoax," atimes.com, February 13, 2015
"Israel admits striking
suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007," bbc.com, March 21, 2018