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by QuestionGirl • 11:44 am
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The Bush administration has stated that North Korea was in kahoots with Syria in an effort to build a nuclear reactor in Syria. (although they won’t comment on it) They have pictures to prove it. (Where have we heard that before?) Israel, who destroyed the facility last September, was upset that the CIA was going to provide information regarding the claims to the U.S. congress this week, fearing “top secrets” may be divulged. Here’s something that’s not so top secret. In bombing the facility, Israel has pissed off the IAEA and in not providing the video and images to the IAEA until yesterday, the U.S. has pissed them off, too.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was briefed yesterday by the US under’secretary of state for arms control, shortly before the director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, briefed members of Senate and House committees on the same intelligence.
“The director general deplores the fact that this information was not provided to the agency in a timely manner, in accordance with the agency’s responsibilities under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, to enable it to verify its veracity and establish the facts,” ElBaradei said in a statement today.
He was critical of Israel’s bombing of the site of the alleged reactor. “The director general views the unilateral use of force by Israel as undermining the due process of verification that is at the heart of the nonproliferation regime,” the statement said.
Some democrats in congress aren’t too happy it took so long to present this inforamtion, and there is widespread skeptism of the claims the U.S. has laid out. Being that the facility has been destroyed, the IAEA cannot see for itself if there were nuclear activities taking place there. Syria denies the claims, saying this fabrication is proof of what a failure the CIA and this U.S. administration is. They have nothing to hide and will fully cooperate with the IAEA investigation.
Glenn Greenwald takes a look at the situation, questioning it’s validity, also.
Aren’t you just sick of this shit?
Filed: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Syria
