US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site - Al-Jazeera

[KareBear]

The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two strategic US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a nuclear site under construction.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380718519

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So... how many people think that this is really just impossible. Wouldn't the use of a tactical nuke set off warning sirens in Russia and China that no one would ever hear the end of ?

Even if the US were involved in this, which I don't don't we were in the tactical and planning stages, it seems a bit of a stretch to claim the USAF took part in the actual fling of the mission itself.

[Richard Steele]

1. Nukes? Bullshit. nm

[Ian David]

2. It wasn't a nuclear site. Cheney's office "leaked" misinformation claiming it was.

And if tactical nukes were used, radiation detectors around the world would have started blaring.

[Javaman]

10. Exactly right. nt

[malaise]

3. So why did Putin head to Iran so soon after?

Maybe he knows something we don't know.

[bananas]

4. Exactly where on Al Jazeera's website is this reported? Or is JPost making shit up?

[Zynx]

5. Deranged. Everyone in the world would know about atmospheric nuclear weapon use.

[Squatch]

6. Let me be the first to affirm that this story is 100% accurate.

No further scrutiny is required and you can proceed thusly:

1) Believe everything you read in this article.
2) Panic.

[BB1]

9. 3. Acquire a copy of 'The Hitchhikersguide to the Galaxy'.

3. Acquire a copy of 'The Hitchhikersguide to the Galaxy'.

[SharonAnn]

14. Whose Motto is "Don't Panic". Hunh???

[Richard Steele]

15. All citizens are advised to procure weapons and fire them wildly into the air! nm

[lovuian]

7. I wouldn't doubt it

who would ever know

[slackmaster]

13. Several countries have satellites that can detect a nuclear explosion anywhere on Earth

The fallout would be detected downwind. There would be eye witnesses, radiation poisoning cases, seismic evidence, etc.

[Skink]

8. It was Cheney with tactical Nukes in the guest house.

[Poll_Blind]

11. WHERE IS THIS STORY on Al Jazeera?

I checked the English and http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.aljazeera.net%2Fnews%2F&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8">Arabic versions and I'm not seeing it. Anyone have the linky?

PB

[slackmaster]

12. It says the planes were "armed with tactical nukes", not that it used any

If they had been used, there would be no way to keep it a secret.

I think the Israeli air force clobbered the facility, the Syrians cleaned up the mess, and this is black propaganda.

[KareBear]

16. From the Article

From the Article in JPost:

"The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed."

[slackmaster]

18. That sentence does not say that a nuclear weapon was used

It says only that the site was destroyed by one bomb.

Carrying tactical nuclear weapons is not exclusive of carrying other weapons.

[Junkdrawer]

17. So...after a REAL use of tactical nukes, they say "Well, (eyes rolling) there..

have been false reports of the use of tactical nukes before."

[Venus Dog]

19. This story has changed so many times it's hard to keep up with it

And so much disinformation that I suspect something very stinky about it.