Israeli warplanes bomb North Korean Nuke Plant?
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2983719.ece
Looks as if I heard incorrectly...news flash, to be released by Washington tomorrow that Israel bombed Syrian planted fueled by North Korean Plutonium, my bad...
amicus...
Looks as if I heard incorrectly...news flash, to be released by Washington tomorrow that Israel bombed Syrian planted fueled by North Korean Plutonium, my bad...
amicus...
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In your defense, Ami, it was a passing reference on one the the evening news broadcasts. It caught my attention, too. It's amazing how quiet that story is being kept.
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Was already questioning what I thought I heard, considering the logistics of a strike on North Korea by Israel. Although who knows what secret arrangements the US Air Force might have with the Israeli Air Force?
A certainty to me that there are contingency plans in the event of an all out middle east conflict, why not elsewhere?
Hmmm.... and yes...story kept very quiet since last September....interesting...
amicus...
A certainty to me that there are contingency plans in the event of an all out middle east conflict, why not elsewhere?
Hmmm.... and yes...story kept very quiet since last September....interesting...
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That pretty much has always been thier style indeed. Particularly when thier pilots are among the elite in the world
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As has been mentioned, there (apparently) was a strike last fall on a site in Syria. There has been little publicity (which is very unusual) and this has occasioned lots of chatter and scenario construction by the cognoscenti. If the reports are accurate, there are strange goings-on. As far as I know there have been no confirmations of the nature of the target and not a peep out of Syria. Even the usual military "news junkies" are perplexed and admit their inability to explain the nature and purport of the event.
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Well knowing how Israel works...generally they won't strike for random reasons. They strike when they feel threatened and there is no way to for them to negotiate peacefully. Considering how Syria works, and particularly since they have been quiet about the issue can pretty much secure the presumption that Syria was up to developing military weapons with thier power plant. If it was just a normal nuclear plant...chances are decent Israel wouldn't have struck...just due to the amount of flak they would receive from other countries.
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Could have been any of the three cable news outlets, I was surfing, as usual and it was like a two sentence blurb that I misheard, I thought it was an attack on North Korea itself. I did search later and find the reference...
thank you...
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Quite welcome.
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CIA to disclose Israeli September raid destroyed Syrian plutonium reactor
April 23, 2008, 6:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
"The Los Angeles Times reports that the CIA plans to brief key lawmakers in a closed-door session April 24 about the mysterious Syrian site that was targeted by an Israeli air raid last September. It was reported on Oct. 6, 2007 that the target of the Israeli raid on Sept. 6, 2007, was a plutonium reactor in a remote part of Syria."
"The CIA officials will tell lawmakers they believe the reactor would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons but was destroyed before it could do so. They will also say that though US officials had had concerns for years about ties between North Korea and Syria, it was not until last year that the new intelligence [gathered in the Israeli raid] provided them with the evidence."
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I just love the fact that Syria was equipped with the latest Soviet anit-aircraft technology, but failed miserably to stop the attack. I hope they paid out the ass for it too.
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I just love the fact that Syria was equipped with the latest Soviet anit-aircraft technology, but failed miserably to stop the attack. I hope they paid out the ass for it too.
Mmmmm yes but Soviet technology would be at least...18 years old. Mmmm though, once again, we have to remember how good Israeli pilots are, and that just about all thier equipment is top of the line American.
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Actually much of Isreal's arsenal is locally upgraded versions of American technology -- especuially in the electronic counter-measures suites.
I'm not the least bit surprised that Syraia's air defenses were ineffective; they would likely have been ineffective against American Countermeasures, but Isreali-desgined and Islreali built electronic countermeasures are a generation better than American, last I knew.
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-nods- I was mostly giving people a good reference to go by. But I don't think we've let them buy F-22's yet...have we? -goes to check- Though I wouldn't be surprised if they were waiting for the Joint Fleet Fighter, or F-35
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Ah ok answered my own question...with a no. Apparently there is a law that prohibits the sale of the F-22 outside of the US, though they are looking into repealing that law...partly due to Australian and Japanese interest
