Exclusive: Israel did NOT hit Syria nuke site (Larisa Alexandrovna)

[kpete]

Israeli air strike did not hit nuclear facility, intelligence officials say Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Monday September 24, 2007

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Monday September 24, 2007
Attack said spawned from chemical weapons disaster

Israel did not strike a nuclear weapons facility in Syria on Sept. 6, instead striking a cache of North Korean missiles, current and former intelligence officials say.

American intelligence sources familiar with key events leading up to the Israeli air raid explained tell RAW STORY that what the Syrians actually had were North Korean No-Dong missiles, possibly located at a site in either the city of Musalmiya in the northern part of Syria or further south around the city of Hama.

While reports have alleged the US provided intelligence to Israel or that Israel shared their intelligence with the US, sources interviewed for this article believe that neither is accurate.

By most accounts of intelligence officials, both former and current, Israel and the US both were well aware of the activities of North Korea and Syria and their attempts to chemically weaponize the No-Dong missile (above right). It therefore remains unclear why an intricate story involving evidence of a Syrian nuclear weapons program and/or enriched uranium was put out to press organizations.

more at:
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Intelligence_officials_say_Israel_received_flawed_0924.html

[EFerrari]

1. I knew this was going to be be. And Elvis didn't turn up, either I bet.

k&r

[groovedaddy]

3. Elvis had left the building

Now, if we can only get Bush and Cheney to leave, preferably in chains.

[BushOut06]

2. Absolutely bullshit

I want CONCRETE PROOF this time. None of this ambiguous bullshit relying on over-ambitious interpretation of satellite photos and testimony from subjective defectors. I absolutely refuse to believe one single word that either Bush or the Israeli regime provides regarding so-called WMD work in either Syria or Iran. This is nothing more IMHO than trying to create justification to attack.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. It was a war crime.

The United Nations Charter says in Article 1:

The Purposes of the United Nations are:

1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

The interdiction of aggressive war was confirmed and broadened by the United Nations' Charter, which states in article 2, paragraph 4 that

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.

c - The "sovereignty" rule means that it is a crime of aggression to use armed force with intent to overthrow the government of a state or to impede its freedom to act unhindered, as it sees fit, throughout its jurisdiction.