Israel - Syria - Nukes

Syria's Nuke?

Shachtman  presents a rather compelling argument that the recent Israeli attack on a Syrian installation, widely assumed to be a reactor in the making, was instead an attack on a nuke assembly complex.  If so, we came that close to a nuclear bomb equipped Iran.  The question is, where did Syria get the plutonium?  Saddam?  Baby Kim?  Lybia?  Russia? “ Israeli Target: Syrian A-Bomb Plant? By Noah Shachtman Maybe the Israelis didn't bomb a nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, last September.  Maybe they blew up a factory for assembling a plutonium bomb, instead.  That's the theory from Tel Aviv University Professor Uzi Even -- a former left-wing member of Israel's parliament and a chemist who worked at the nuclear reactor in Dimona. For starters, the Syrian facility has been compared to the North Korean nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, Ha'Aretz notes.  But in the reactor in Yongbyon, "one can clearly see a chimney, which is necessary for the emission of the radioactive gases... In the satellite photos of the structure in Syria there is no chimney." [more] ”