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A strike in the dark
« on: February 05, 2008, 05:14:42 PM »
I know....i know, ya'll thought this was going to be about the primitives lighting fires in the dark.....

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Scurrilous  (1000+ posts)       Tue Feb-05-08 05:37 PM
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A Strike in the Dark (Seymour M. Hersh) 
 Advertisements [?]What did Israel bomb in Syria?

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"Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried out a secret bombing mission on the banks of the Euphrates River, about ninety miles north of the Iraq border. The seemingly unprovoked bombing, which came after months of heightened tension between Israel and Syria over military exercises and troop buildups by both sides along the Golan Heights, was, by almost any definition, an act of war. But in the immediate aftermath nothing was heard from the government of Israel. In contrast, in 1981, when the Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, near Baghdad, the Israeli government was triumphant, releasing reconnaissance photographs of the strike and permitting the pilots to be widely interviewed.

Within hours of the attack, Syria denounced Israel for invading its airspace, but its public statements were incomplete and contradictory—thus adding to the mystery. A Syrian military spokesman said only that Israeli planes had dropped some munitions in an unpopulated area after being challenged by Syrian air defenses, "which forced them to flee." Four days later, Walid Moallem, the Syrian foreign minister, said during a state visit to Turkey that the Israeli aircraft had used live ammunition in the attack, but insisted that there were no casualties or property damage. It was not until October 1st that Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an interview with the BBC, acknowledged that the Israeli warplanes had hit their target, which he described as an "unused military building." Assad added that Syria reserved the right to retaliate, but his comments were muted.

Despite official silence in Tel Aviv (and in Washington), in the days after the bombing the American and European media were flooded with reports, primarily based on information from anonymous government sources, claiming that Israel had destroyed a nascent nuclear reactor that was secretly being assembled in Syria, with the help of North Korea. Beginning construction of a nuclear reactor in secret would be a violation of Syria’s obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and could potentially yield material for a nuclear weapon.

The evidence was circumstantial but seemingly damning. The first reports of Syrian and North Korean nuclear coöperation came on September 12th in the Times and elsewhere. By the end of October, the various media accounts generally agreed on four points: the Israeli intelligence community had learned of a North Korean connection to a construction site in an agricultural area in eastern Syria; three days before the bombing, a "North Korean ship," identified as the Al Hamed, had arrived at the Syrian port of Tartus, on the Mediterranean; satellite imagery strongly suggested that the building under construction was designed to hold a nuclear reactor when completed; as such, Syria had crossed what the Israelis regarded as the "red line" on the path to building a bomb, and had to be stopped. There were also reports—by ABC News and others—that some of the Israeli intelligence had been shared in advance with the United States, which had raised no objection to the bombing."


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fascisthunter  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-05-08 05:48 PM
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1. Ok... WTF is Going On.
 Edited on Tue Feb-05-08 05:49 PM by fascisthunter
Are we supposed to believe Israel after all the shit we have heard? Israel as well as America have been trumping up a continuous line of BS for years regarding the Middle East, Iraq in particular. How now am I to believe them? Can you?

These ****ers (neo-nutjobs) are endangering our lives by starting shit they cannot control. On top of it, we can't tell if shit is a false alarm or not. See the danger?


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Truth2Tell  (1000+ posts)       Tue Feb-05-08 05:50 PM
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2. Thank you Mr. Hersh (as usual).
 The saddest part of this is how the entire Western Press swallowed this cockamammie story hook, line and sinker. Pathetic rubes.


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Re: A strike in the dark
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2008, 06:05:58 PM »
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A Syrian military spokesman said only that Israeli planes had dropped some munitions in an unpopulated area after being challenged by Syrian air defenses, "which forced them to flee."

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If the Israeli Air Force left it was because they were finished with whatever it was they were doing....


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Re: A strike in the dark
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2008, 06:23:17 PM »
Now this wouldn't be the same Seymour Hersh that predicted imminent invasion of Iran in 2002, or 2003, or 2004, or 2005, or 2006, or 2007 would it.

Because that guy has lots of credibility.
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Re: A strike in the dark
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2008, 06:46:28 PM »
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Some primitive posted all this stuff on Skins's island some months ago.

What is it about the primitives that they're always recycling old news?

One is slowly starting to come to the unhappy conclusion that the primitives can't think of anything new, and just use old stuff over and over again.
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Re: A strike in the dark
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 06:59:12 PM »
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Some primitive posted all this stuff on Skins's island some months ago.

What is it about the primitives that they're always recycling old news?

One is slowly starting to come to the unhappy conclusion that the primitives can't think of anything new, and just use old stuff over and over again.

One thing I have noticed in talking to real life primitive sorts is the astounding lack of knowledge of history (except for certain select events) of any kind.
They are of the types that consider since they know everything they have nothing to learn.
As such,any "find" to them is always brand new.
Therefore,to display for all their great insight and enlightenment,they rush to show their fellow primitives the wheel that they have just discovered.