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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 09:16 14/10/2007 Report: IAF strike targeted partly finished nuclear reactor in Syria By Haaretz Service An Israel Air Force strike on Syria early last month targeted a partly constructed nuclear reactor, American and foreign officials with access to intelligence reports were quoted as saying by the New York Times on Saturday. Comparing the operation to Israel's bombing of the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981, shortly before that reactor was to have begun operating, the New York Times quoted U.S. and foreign officials as saying the Syrian facility appears to have been much further from completion. "They [officials] 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," the Times reported. Advertisement According to the New York Times, the Bush administration was divided over whether an attack on the incomplete reactor was warranted. The officials told the Times that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates were "particularly concerned about the ramifications of a pre-emptive strike in the absence of an urgent threat." "There wasn't a lot of debate about the evidence," one American familiar with the discussions between the U.S. and Israel told the Times. "There was a lot of debate about how to respond to it." According to the report, the officials said the reactor was apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel. Syrian President Bashar Assad confirmed the air strike some two weeks ago, but said it targeted an unused military facility. Both North Korea and Syria have vehemently denied reports of nuclear cooperation between the countries. Also Saturday, North Korea's state media reported that a senior Pyongyang official has departed for an overseas trip that includes a stop in Syria Bookmark to del.icio.us Killer father Rabin killer's wife says will tell their son his father 'sacrificed himself for his people'. Tehran to Tel Aviv A Christian-Jewish group is promising dozens of Iranian Jews a better life in Israel.   1.   My Spirit new it 22:19  |  Paul 13/10/07   2.   Kill the snack on spot before it bites you. 22:53  |  e.m 13/10/07   3.   dont wait for your enemy to arm himself before you shoot him 22:57  |  zionist forever 13/10/07   4.   IAF hit partly finished nuclear reactor 23:07  |  Rollin 13/10/07   5.   Years away..... 23:07  |  Palestinian Brit 13/10/07   6.   betterb to early than to late and more difficult if left to late. 23:07  |  ralph 13/10/07   7.   The New York Times 23:10  |  Ted 13/10/07   8.   Without the State of Israel there is no future for the Jewish Peo 23:29  |  e.m 13/10/07   9.   Reactor 23:30  |  Mr. Smith 13/10/07   10.   Without the State of Israel there is no future for the Jewish P.2 23:31  |  e.m 13/10/07   11.   Good Job! 23:43  |  Michael 13/10/07   12.   palestinian Brit 00:14  |  max 14/10/07   13.   #3, Ted; What propaganda? 00:15  |  Yosef 14/10/07   14.   Israel`s myhts 00:19  |  PierrePalestinian 14/10/07   15.   Kill the snack on spot before it bites you. 00:26  |  e.m 14/10/07   16.   Hallucinating Arabs and Others 00:43  |  Larry 14/10/07   17.   The airstrike 01:59  |  Joseph (Lebanese) 14/10/07   18.   #4 Palestinian Brit 02:05  |  * BEN JABO 14/10/07   19.   Palistinian Brit , wishful thinking, USA over whelimingly 02:14  |  Steve-NYC 14/10/07   20.   #13 Pierre Palestinian 02:15  |  * BEN JABO 14/10/07   21.   Twaddle 02:18  |  Mark Lincoln 14/10/07   22.   IDF`s only mistake 02:40  |  dan 14/10/07   23.   Reactors are built in deep holes. Thanks Isreal! 02:45  |  Omran 14/10/07   24.   Reactors are built in deep holes. Thanks Isreal! 02:45  |  Omran 14/10/07   25.   For pal Brit re #5 02:48  |  Star of David 14/10/07   26.   For Mark Lincoln: Tell me, 02:53  |  Star of David 14/10/07   27.   To Mark Lincoln 03:01  |  dan 14/10/07   28.   8 03:03  |  zionist forever 14/10/07   29.   cowardice on the iaf 03:08  |  VIPER 14/10/07   30.   ZIONIST FOREVER`S TYPICAL BS. a coward 03:11  |  VIPER 14/10/07   31.   Thnak you Israel for fighting against proliferation... 03:12  |  Rafa 14/10/07   32.   The idiot Mark Lincoln New York time is anti republican 03:21  |  e.m 14/10/07   33.   #21 We Will have to have discussions with Michelle 03:27  |  F.B.I. 14/10/07   34.   Preventive Maintainance 03:38  |  Commonsense 14/10/07   35.   twadell 04:16  |  jr 14/10/07   36.   Ben Jabo 20 04:23  |  Pirerre 14/10/07   37.   A brilliant way to send a message to Iran 04:50  |  garrick 14/10/07   38.   Without the eradication of repugnant Zionism there is no future 05:25  |  Sam (UK) 14/10/07   39.   The so called debate is over 05:35  |  Ron 14/10/07   40.   to all pals and arabs build it and we will destroy it! 05:37  |  ralph 14/10/07   41.   #29, take a valium or go masturbate... 05:41  |  Rafa 14/10/07   42.   however may times you echo this its stays untrue 06:00  |  Rowan Berkeley 14/10/07   43.   Bunch Of Baloney! A Radar Test! 06:09  |  Yosemite 14/10/07   44.   bluffing 06:25  |  ali 14/10/07   45.   what about iran? 06:35  |  william 14/10/07   46.   REACTOR ### Better to do it NOW ! 06:37  |  Gary Pineda 14/10/07   47.   Nuclear reactor 06:39  |  Edifice 14/10/07   48.   Keep on bombing? 07:06  |  Neil 14/10/07   49.   Nuclear reactor in Syria 07:31  |  Vera 14/10/07   50.   Ali OK we are bluffing! 07:54  |  Gil 14/10/07   51.   This attack will hurt Israel more than help 07:59  |  Natallie Durson 14/10/07   52.   Its a Military test 08:06  |  gil 14/10/07   53.   Gotta love the irony, Sam old bean 08:13  |  Existential 14/10/07   54.   #5, Palestinian Brit...you cannot possibly hope for that... 08:25  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   55.   #21, Mark Lincoln & Twaddle... 08:28  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   56.   #23, Viper...now, you know the reason why... 08:31  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   57.   #3, zionist forever... 08:33  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   58.   We have scotch`d the snake..not killed it 08:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 14/10/07   59.   We have scotch`d the snake..not killed it 08:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 14/10/07   60.   #26, e.m. Mark Lincoln jealous of who??? 08:35  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   61.   Ben Jabo, take this then.... 08:41  |  Silvienne 14/10/07   62.   USA INVADED IRAQ WITH NO WMD PRESENT : ISRAEL DID RIGHT THING 08:43  |  W.Anker 14/10/07   63.   Rowan Berkeley #34 08:51  |  S 14/10/07   64.   same arogence israel had before julys 2006 war 08:57  |  Alex 14/10/07   65.   #40, Durson 09:17  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/10/07   66.   32-Sam,sam poor sam (UK) 09:18  |  peter 14/10/07   67.   # 32. Without the erradication of hatred there is no future 09:23  |  dan 14/10/07   68.   Natallie Durson No 40: Something`s Wrong Here. 09:43  |  Natan 14/10/07   69.   Vicious Israeli attack on IAEA-approved facilities 09:51  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   70.   US Stated Dept. has screwed up and now "debates" 09:54  |  Absolute Sweden 14/10/07   71.   Manners, Clickfool, manners! 10:09  |  Jasmine Murphy 14/10/07   72.   Pirerre # 36 10:12  |  ChanahS 14/10/07   73.   Biased 10:19  |  ali 14/10/07   74.   Alex 10:36  |  Iisraeli 14/10/07   75.   #69 Click The Fool in his infinite wisdom... 10:47  |  Shlomo 14/10/07   76.   For Jasmine Murphy # 71 10:52  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   77.   Silvienne what they will build we will DESTROY 11:14  |  Gil 14/10/07   78.   Clickfoot # 69 11:24  |  nosmo 14/10/07   79.   IAF bombs partly finished peace. 11:26  |  Michael 14/10/07   80.   Ckickfool here is a Movie just for YOU! 12:21  |  Gil 14/10/07   81.   #29 & 30 - Are you stupid? 12:40  |  Alan 14/10/07   82.   Clickfool 12:42  |  Jasmine Murphy 14/10/07   83.   Gil (#77) 12:45  |  christoph 14/10/07   84.   #44 - Israel bluffing? 12:46  |  Alan 14/10/07   85.   38Sam,well said,now wait for the zionists to defend the 12:48  |  lakshmi 14/10/07   86.   #51- Natalie I`m scared 12:54  |  Alan 14/10/07   87.   For Jasmine Murphy # 82 12:59  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   88.   #64 - same arrogance syrian had in 1967? 13:03  |  Alan 14/10/07   89.   #87 Clickfool 13:20  |  51 shekels 14/10/07   90.   Christoph (#83) 13:27  |  Gil 14/10/07   91.   #38Sam(UK),READ:BLAIR(UK)&BROWN)(UK) 13:33  |  Ian 14/10/07   92.   Re #8 by a.m. - Without Israel no future for the world 13:47  |  Johnny 14/10/07   93.   For 51 shekels # 89 13:48  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   94.   Clickfool evidence of bias 13:59  |  Jasmine Murphy 14/10/07   95.   For Johnny in Stockholm # 93 14:01  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   96.   So Assad was right then 14:12  |  Chris Linthwaite 14/10/07   97.   Clickfool #95 14:19  |  Johnny 14/10/07   98.   #91, Ian 14:31  |  Wolf 14/10/07   99.   Syrian with rights 15:35  |  Ali 14/10/07   100.   Natallie A nuclear bomb would hurt more! 15:55  |  Realist 14/10/07   101.   To 99 Ali 16:00  |  Realist 14/10/07   102.   #62# GENIUS : YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 16:02  |  L.Uftwaffe 14/10/07   103.   # 24 Just the Arab ones 16:05  |  Realist 14/10/07   104.   To 95 Fool 16:16  |  Newzsurfer 14/10/07   105.   Where are the Syrian photos of the destroyed 17:19  |  Robert 14/10/07   106.   #94 Jasmine Murphy is disengenuous 18:09  |  Labhras 14/10/07   107.   To Palestinian Brit 18:22  |  B`Galil 14/10/07   108.   Labhras, if you can`t copy the spelling of my name 18:26  |  Jasmine Murphy 14/10/07   109.   Bush Administration was devided? They had no idea , as 18:47  |  Sal 14/10/07   110.   Jasmine Murphy, telling us Day is Night # 94 19:22  |  Clickfool 14/10/07   111.   Re:nuclear weapons 19:23  |  Neil 14/10/07   112.   RE:hatred 19:32  |  Neil 14/10/07   113.   #23 Omran - Not all nations 20:26  |  * BEN JABO 14/10/07   114.   Is Dimona next? 20:28  |  Douglas Evans 14/10/07   115.   #29 VIPER/APARTHEID 20:31  |  * BEN JABO 14/10/07   116.   #56 Silvienne to VIPER/APARTHEID 20:38  |  * BEN JABO 14/10/07   117.   Silvivenne- you ask, but don`t answer 21:18  |  Stephen 14/10/07   118.   Mark Lincoln 21:20  |  Stephen 14/10/07   119.   THE COWARD BEN-JABO, silvienne read this 00:36  |  VIPER 15/10/07   120.   #110, Clickfool... 01:35  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   121.   #116, Ben Jabo...over 1200 potential nuclear sites in Iran???? 01:48  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   122.   #117, Stephen... 02:00  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   123.   Stephen, two 02:02  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   124.   Stephen, three 02:04  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   125.   Silvienne 122 -your post proves my point 02:46  |  Stephen 15/10/07   126.   Sil 122: your peace ideas are reasonable, but 02:52  |  Stephen 15/10/07   127.   Silvienne # 124 03:20  |  Stephen 15/10/07   128.   Natalie-reprisals-#51 03:24  |  Mark T 15/10/07   129.   Ali-October War casualties 03:41  |  Mark T 15/10/07   130.   Clickfool IAEA aproved?? 03:48  |  Mark T 15/10/07   131.   #125, Stephen... 04:20  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   132.   Stephen, second... 04:26  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   133.   #127, Stephen... 04:31  |  Silvienne 15/10/07   134.   Sil 131-then explain the Gaza withdrawal. 05:05  |  Stephen 15/10/07   135.   Sil-132- great post- I am so delighted. 05:20  |  Stephen 15/10/07   136.   Sil 133- forget the Sarin used by relig cult in Japan? 05:36  |  Stephen 15/10/07   137.   Qudos IDF 08:07  |  Adrian de Klerk 15/10/07   138.   #119 VIPER/APARTHEID 16:49  |  * BEN JABO 15/10/07   139.   #121 Silvienne 16:57  |  * BEN JABO 15/10/07   140.   #138 RE:Viper 21:33  |  DR 15/10/07   141.   #140, DR, HYPOCRACY AT IT`S BEST 00:39  |  VIPER 16/10/07   142.   Viper- you consider any Jewish account to be biased? 02:08  |  Stephen 16/10/07   143.   #135, Stephen, thanks for the compliment! 06:47  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   144.   #134, Stephen... 06:52  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   145.   #136, Stephen... 07:01  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   146.   Ben Jabo, Stephen in NY.. 07:07  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   147.   #134 Explain the Gaza "withdrawal", Stephen? 07:14  |  Johnboy 16/10/07   148.   #146 Silvienne 17:34  |  * BEN JABO 16/10/07   149.   #148, Ben Jabo... 17:47  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   150.   #147, Johnboy... 17:48  |  Silvienne 16/10/07   151.   #142, stephen, my mistake 10:35  |  VIPER 17/10/07   152.   Slivienne 145 09:03  |  Stephen 18/10/07   153.   Silvienne 146 09:08  |  Stephen 18/10/07   154.   Johnboy 147 09:13  |  Stephen 18/10/07   155.   #151-2 Viper/Apartheid - your eduction continues 17:00  |  * BEN JABO 18/10/07   156.   151-1 THIRD TRY Viper/Apartheid 00:55  |  I BEN JABO 19/10/07   157.   Stephen, #145, #146... 02:44  |  Silvienne 19/10/07   158.   #157 Silvienne to Stephen 07:42  |  * BEN JABO 19/10/07   159.   Silvieene 157- I agree that American Interests must come first 16:13  |  Stephen 19/10/07   160.   #159 Stephen to Silvienne 17:23  |  * BEN JABO 19/10/07   161.   Ben Jabo 160-the Palestinians never miss an opportunity 20:26  |  Stephen 19/10/07   162.   #161, Stephen & Ben Jabo... 04:25  |  Silvienne 20/10/07   163.   #162 Silvienne - I replied in another thread 06:54  |  * BEN JABO 20/10/07   164.   #163, Ben Jabo... 22:26  |  Silvienne 20/10/07   165.   #164 Silvienne 23:18  |  * BEN JABO 20/10/07   166.   #165 Silvienne -" I hate to say "I Told You So" 01:18  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07   167.   #166 Silvienne - one very obvious false fact 09:19  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07

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