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Did you know we were bombing Syria? From the Jerusalem Post (via Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast) we learn that U.S. Air Force jets - bearing among their armaments tactical nukes - bombed that alleged nuclear development site in Syria two months ago.

Not Israeli jets. U.S. fighter jets:

The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a suspected nuclear site under construction.

The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes.

The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed.

At the beginning of October, Israel’s military censor began to allow the local media to report on the raid without attributing their report to foreign sources. Nevertheless, details of the strike have remained clouded in mystery.
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The New York Times reported on October 13 that Israeli planes struck at what US and Israeli intelligence believed was a partly constructed nuclear reactor in Syria on September 6, citing American and foreign officials who had seen the relevant intelligence reports.

According to the report, Israel carried out the report to send a message that it would not tolerate even a nuclear program in its initial stages of construction in any neighboring state.

On October 17, Syria denied that one of its representatives to the United Nations told a panel that an Israeli air strike hit a Syrian nuclear facility and added that “such facilities do not exist in Syria.”

These guys won’t be happy until there’s rubble from Istanbul to Islamabad.

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This entry was written by slim and posted on November 5, 2007 at 11:56 am and filed under Middle East conflicts, Military, War on terror. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. I had suspected that this had been the case after seeing the before and after photo’s.

    A couple of Wall Street Journal reporters and a few congress members had been briefed on this (whatever happened) and sworn to secrecy. The reporters were adamant that the public be advised by the Bush Administration stating that what happened in Syria would be made public soon by out of country sources.

    We need to be leveled with.

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    1. Above comment written by Pat CampbellNo Gravatar on November 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  2. This has only further upped the ante that someone could justify a preemptive attack against us.

    Have we moved from a policy of peace through mutually assured destruction to one of who attacks first and hardest wins? If so, all humanity is now subject to state sponsored terrorism.

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    bushtoolNo Gravatar posted a reply on November 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm:

    And after we are attacked again, our dopey media and fascist government will say, “Why did they attack us? Why do they hate us? They attacked us because they hate our freedoms.”

    Ahem, it has nothing to do with blowing people to smithereens…

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    2. Above comment written by Pat CampbellNo Gravatar on November 5th, 2007 at 5:34 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  3. I wouldn’t put it past our present administration for doing this, but are you going to believe a Muslim reporting news station?

    Show us readers the proof, or shut the F up. Where is the proof? Which elected bottom feeder, and what reporters? Put there name out here, and maybe the average person will/might believe you.

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    bushtoolNo Gravatar posted a reply on November 5th, 2007 at 7:22 pm:

    I would believe Al Jazeera over the lamestream, biased, big corporate, monopolistic media in the US. And I am trying to be nice.

    But you are correct that at this point one can only say this may or may not have occurred.

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    3. Above comment written by AllenNo Gravatar on November 5th, 2007 at 7:08 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  4. [quote post="1015"]are you going to believe a Muslim reporting news station?[/quote]
    Al Jazeera is a secular Arabic news service.
    Calling it Muslim would be roughly analogous to calling CBS, MSNBC or Fox News Christian stations.
    Not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs.
    Anybody with any sense would consider a news source from another perspective, whether they would believe it or take it with the proverbial grain of salt.
    Open-mindedness, you know?
    If true, this is like Kissinger’s secret bombing campaign all over again, only now we’re fucking with nuclear weapons.

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    4. Above comment written by RichNo Gravatar on November 5th, 2007 at 9:15 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  5. I still suspect a tatical nuke may have been involved.

    The information Slim posted refers to the Jerusalem Post and indicates that the informtion is more than just from the Arab media. I don’t have the previous Wall Street Journal article by the two reporters in hand, but given the situation in total, I would agree with those reporters that citizens need to be leveled with.

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    5. Above comment written by Pat CampbellNo Gravatar on November 6th, 2007 at 9:20 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
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