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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:00 AM

How Israel destroyed Syria's Al Kibar nuclear reactor

In a hushed-up mission in September 2007, Israeli jets blew up a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:48 AM

When do other countries in the region bomb Israel's nuclear works @ Dimona?

Hmm?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:10 AM

That's your job Herr Wagner

But start small. Start with killing the Jews you see.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:13 AM

"when the water pipes glow"

What does this mean?!?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:19 AM

How do you know it was a reactor. Even the Syrians won't say

But Salon knows. Just like they know that secret evil Jews are going to bomb Iran any day now.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:19 AM

Water pipe: think BONG

Hookah, whatever.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:37 AM

How come everytime there is an article about Israel in Salon

it comes from the pages of Der Spiegel?

Is this so we can all blame the Germans?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:44 AM

Thanks, Zorkna!

(duh...) I kept thinking conventional plumbing.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:04 PM

Oh! The mighty Euphrates river...

That's good!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:55 PM

No radioactive debris was released.

So they hit the wrong target.

Who really cares?

Zorknutz cares.

Salon cares.

No sane person should.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:59 PM

YOU MEAN MUSLIMS LIE?

I am shocked that Syria would lie about their intentions, sort of reminds you of an African despot from Kenya parading as Preident of America....hard to beleive.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 01:54 PM

Nice work Israel

This was a great article. I guess that Salon has to go all the way to Germany to get a balanced article on the middle east that doesn't blame Israel for everything.

Keep up the good work Israel, while your critics, from the safety of their family rooms (the fighting keyboarders), are demanding that you give up everything for empty Arab promises, Israel is ridding the world of psychopathic killers. The thought of nuclear weapons in the hands of an Assad is frightening. When there was an uprising in the Syrian city of Hama in 1982 (Google "Hama Rules"), Assad surrounded the city with artillery and turned the place into a tomb for 30,000. If they are willing to do that to their own people, imagine what they would do with a nuclear bomb.

Israel did the world a favor.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 02:05 PM

Breathless Tripe

This reads like a 24 ripoff. A bad teevee movie waiting to happen. Where are the facts to back up the alleged decision points?

For all anyone knows, this former building was intended as a false target to keep the Israeli's from sniffing around a real threat to their military dominence.

I was sadly disappointed that I learned nothing from this article.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 02:14 PM

fascinating article

fascinating article and excellent read

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 02:16 PM

My dear misaac,

"First we kill all the psychopathic killers."

Here is the problem, misaac, psychopathic killers never consider themselves to be psychopathic killers, do they?

You don't.

/rimshot

The Israelis make Nazis look like humanitarians.

The lies are not working so well as they did 60 years ago, are they?

Did Anne Frank get shot, gassed or did she die from typhus?

How many survived the Holocaust?

Damned big number isn't it?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 02:19 PM

My dear Zorknutz!

Question: What is the Jewish word for "Nigger?"

Answer: Goyim.

How about THAT!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 03:58 PM

@Something really stupid

The Israelis make Nazis look like humanitarians.

And you make Goebbels look like an amateur.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 04:20 PM

My dear Renegade Iconoclast,

Medicine, Healthcare, Food and Water.

How is that working in GAZA?

NAZIs managed to supply that to their charges until the infrastructure was destroyed.

I guess all those homemade model rockets destroyed Israel's infrastructure.

Some people are just evil by choice.

BTW NAZIs were and are scumbags. Yes they were famous murdering scumbags.

What makes that any different from any other murdering scumbags?

Some victims count and others do not.

B.I.O.Y.A.N.S.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 04:40 PM

something really stinks

I guess you never read about the "Einsatzkommando/EInsatzgruppen" who's job it was to exterminate "undesirables" from occupied cities, They followed real combat units into places like Lodz and Kiev, escorting the Jewish (and Gypsy) and other populations out to quarries or freshly dug trenches to be shot (individually) in their thousands. Shame though, too much film documented this, hard for the true untermensch to deny (the proof is in the film, and the documents . . . remember, Germans LOVE recordkeeping).

The operation in Syria was "Kick ass" and reflects very well on the professionalism and effectiveness of the most combat experienced intelligence service and Air Force in the world. ANd for you anti semites and self loathing types, it is because of the quality and experience of the people that run and do it, not because of the weapons we sell them. I am very sure if the Israeli's were armed with P51's, and WW2 German MK IV tanks they would still wipe the floor with most Arab armies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 04:42 PM

It's odd, except for the few mandatory put-downs, the Germans were almost admiring of the Israelis

I suppose they must look nostalgically on the martial virtues. Well they can take pride that they basically fired that spirit into being.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 05:14 PM

Calamine

Ich bin nur halb Deutsch . . . born and raised here with the belief that anyone here can achieve their potentials with smarts, relentlessness and a little luck.

Max range of an excuse is zero meters, so people who fail, and then blame others? . . . Sorry, be like the basketball and bounce back, or live in the blame game, and consign yourself to failure. WOrks for Jeremiah Wright, that's how he affords his house, by sublimating the potentials of his flock.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 05:15 PM

There's not much mention of the Russians

There's more to this story. Those were the most advanced Russian radars that the Israelis took out on the way in to Kibar. That's the main reason imo the Iranians went so far underground. They lost confidence in their air defenses. Israel knew that they only had a short time window to attack Iran. The US was gearing up to do the same. In June of 2008, Israel in a mock attack had the largest war game in her history against Iran. Later the same Summer, Israel was at full attack posture but something stopped them from pulling the trigger. It was the Russians.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 06:38 PM

My dear gedicht,

Fascism and Nazism are not cool, you low life murder loving misanthrope.

The Mogen David don't make it right.

No free pass, ever again.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 07:50 PM

Glad to see

Glad to see the Jews=Nazis posts are left to stand. You morons really make unmasking your gutter hatreds so easy.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 08:05 PM

My dear Zorknutz,

Don't blame Jews for the war crimes of the Israeli Defense Force.

Don't blame Germans for Nazis.

Don't think the Nazis are unique or uncommon or that good at mass murder.

We were far better at killing innocent civilians than they were.

Nazis went crazy for four for five years.

How long has America and Israel been batshiat NAZI crazy?

More than for or five years.

After the GAZA atrocities, NAZIs are just not that scary anymore.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 08:09 PM

BTW Zorknutz,

Palestinians are the Hebrews/Jews who stayed in the homeland.

Who hates the Jews now, ZORKNUTZ?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 08:19 PM

Anyone find it CURIOUS.

That we send "Terrorists" to Syria to be tortured under OUR supervision while Israel blows up a "Nuclear Reactor Site."

Strange bedfellows.

Who is fooling whom?

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