Bbrp tahun lalu pelarian dari Irak juga buka mulut. "Ada WMD!!!" Kentongan ditabuh bertalu-talu. Perang pecah. Sang diktator tumbang dan digantung. Tak satupun WMD ditemukan. Sejuta jiwa telah melayang ......
On 3/19/09, Sunny <am...@tele2.se> wrote: > http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072478.html > > Last update - 20:21 19/03/2009 > > > 'Iran defector tipped off U.S. on Syrian nuclear ambitions' > > By The Associated Press > > Tags: Iran, Syria, Israel News > > A top-ranked Iranian defector told the United States that Iran was > financing North Korean moves to make Syria into a nuclear weapons power, > leading to the Israeli air strike that allegedly destroyed a secret reactor, > a report said Thursday. > > The article in the Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung goes into detail > about an Iranian connection and fills in gaps about Israel's September 6, > 2007, raid that knocked out Syria's nearly completed al-Kabir reactor in the > country's eastern desert. > > Ali Reza Asghari, a retired general in Iran's elite Revolutionary > Guards and a former deputy defense minister, changed sides in February 2007 > and provided considerable information to the West on Iran's own nuclear > program, said the article, written by Hans Ruehle, former chief of the > planning staff of the German Defense Ministry. > > > > The biggest surprise, however, was his assertion that Iran was > financing a secret nuclear project of Syria and North Korea, he said. No one > in the American intelligence scene had heard anything of it. And the > Israelis who were immediately informed also were completely unaware. > > Ruehle, who did not identify the sources of his information, publishes > and comments on security and nuclear proliferation in different European > newspapers and broadcasts and has held prominent roles in German and NATO > institutions. > > U.S. intelligence had detected North Korean ship deliveries of > construction supplies to Syria that started in 2002, and American satellites > spotted the construction as early as 2003, but regarded the work as nothing > unusual, in part because the Syrians had banned radio and telephones from > the site and handled communications solely by messengers - medieval but > effective, Ruehle said. > > Intensive investigation followed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence > services until Israel sent a 12-man commando unit in two helicopters to the > site in August 2007 to take photographs and soil samples, he said. > > "The analysis was conclusive that it was a North Korean-type reactor, > a gas graphite model," Ruehle said. > > Other sources have suggested that the reactor might have been large > enough to make about one nuclear weapon's worth of plutonium a year. > > Just before the Israeli commando raid, a North Korean ship was > intercepted en route to Syria with nuclear fuel rods, underscoring the need > for fast action, he said. > > On the morning of September 6, 2007, seven Israeli F-15 fighter > bombers took off to the north. They flew along the Mediterranean coast, > brushed past Turkey and pressed on into Syria. Fifty kilometers (30 miles) > from their target they fired 22 rockets at the three identified objects > inside the Kibar complex. > > "The Syrians were completely surprised. By the time their air defense > systems were ready, the Israeli planes were well out of range. The mission > was successful, the reactor destroyed," Ruehle said. > > "Israel estimates that Iran had paid North Korea between $1 billion > and $2 billion for the project," Ruehle said. > > Israel has refused from the beginning to comment on, confirm or deny > the strike, but after a delay of several months Washington presented > intelligence purporting to show the target was a reactor being built with > North Korean help. > > Iranian officials were not available for comment because of a national > holiday. In general, Iran has been silent about the Syrian facility bombed > by Israel. Syrian officials could not be reached for comment. But Syria has > denied the facility was a nuclear plant, saying it was an unused military > building. It has also denied any nuclear cooperation with North Korea or > Iran. > > The International Atomic Energy Agency earlier this year said United > Nations inspectors had found processed uranium traces in samples taken from > the site. > > Syria has suggested the traces came from Israeli ordnance used to hit > the site, but the IAEA said the composition of the uranium made that > unlikely. Israel has denied it was the source of the uranium. > > Syria has told diplomats that it built a missile facility over the > ruins of the site. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ======================= > Milis Wanita Muslimah > Membangun citra wanita muslimah dalam diri, keluarga, maupun masyarakat. > Situs Web: http://www.wanita-muslimah.com > ARSIP DISKUSI : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/messages > Kirim Posting mailto:wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com > Berhenti mailto:wanita-muslimah-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com > Milis Keluarga Sejahtera mailto:keluarga-sejaht...@yahoogroups.com > Milis Anak Muda Islam mailto:majelism...@yahoogroups.com > > This mailing list has a special spell casted to reject any attachment > ....Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device
