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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, October 13, 2007

The NYTimes calls it on the Israeli/Syria airstrike

The NYTimes says it was an early stage nuclear reactor.
Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.....

the facility that the Israelis struck in Syria appears to have been much further from completion, the American and foreign officials said. They 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.

This where faith breaks down. After all the garbage intelligence distributed by elements of the Bush administration and the NYTimes unquestioning printing of it, how am I supposed to believe this? Especially sourced blind?

Who are the "American and foreign officials" used for sourcing?

Later: Anonymous put an odd question in my brain. Remember Cheney sourcing the NYTimes 'aluminum tubes" story on Meet the Press as proof of an Iraqi nuclear program after he sent Scooter Libby to plant the story with Judith Miller?

This Syrian nuke story was released too late for today's paper, so it'll be front page NYTimes tomorrow.

Who's on the network shows?

Later still: Yes, it's unquestionably a message to Iran.

4 Comments:

  • "...how am I supposed to believe this? Especially sourced blind?"

    You aren't. It's aimed at the dumb clucks who believe anything.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:30 PM  

  • Yeah, It's put up as a "point to."

    Remember Cheney referencing the NYTimes reporting that Libby sourced on Meet the Press?

    Question: I wonder if we'll see this tomorrow?

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:19 PM  

  • Wolf has Lindsey Graham, but he also has Aziz, and Carter.

    Looks like Russert has a puff piece featuring..... Bill Cosby!

    It will be interesting to see who else shows up.

    By Blogger Praguetwin, at 4:59 AM  

  • Well, Bill Cosby has said some pretty insane things, but if he starts talking about bombing Iran, I am outta here.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:49 AM  

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