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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Is Assad building nuclear facility in Homs?

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The German magazine “Der Spiegel” is reporting:

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It is deep underground, near the town of Qusayr and has access to electricity and water supplies, the magazine said in a pre-released version of the story made available ahead of Saturday’s publication. It said it had had access to “exclusive documents,” satellite photographs and intercepted conversations thanks to intelligence sources.
Accrdong to the report, the most recent satellite images show six structures which conceal entrances to the reported facility, said to be below ground. The site was also reported to have special access to Syria’s power grid, connected to the nearby city of Blosah.
According to the report, a particularly suspicious detail is A deep well which connects the facility with a local lake: “Such a connection is unnecessary for a conventional weapons cache, but it is essential for a nuclear facility,” the report said.
However, the clearest proof the report cited was an intercepted communication by radio traffic recently intercepted local spies, in which the voice identified as belonging to a high-ranking Hezbollah official can be heard calling the place an “atomic factory” specifically naming Qusayr as the area.
More importantly, the Hezbollah official frequently updated Ibrahim Othman, the head of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission. The Syrian regime has transferred 8,000 fuel rods to the plant that had been planned for a facility at Al-Kibar, it added.
Western experts suspect, based on the documents, that a reactor or an enrichment plant could be the aim of the project, whose codename is “Zamzam,” Der Spiegel said. The report said North Korean and Iranian experts are thought to be part of the “Zamzam” project.
Site of nuclear site allegedly hit in 2007 (Photo: AP/GeoEye Satellite Image)
Site of nuclear site allegedly hit in 2007 (Photo: AP/GeoEye Satellite Image)
In 2007, a bombing raid on an undeclared Syrian nuclear facility at al-Kibar was widely understood to have been an Israeli strike, but it was never acknowledged by the Jewish state.
In a 2009 interview with Spiegel, Assad claimed to “want a nuclear-free Middle East, Israel included.” But a later IAEA investigation from 2011 found that “the destroyed building was very likely a nuclear reactor.”
AFP contributed to this report
Also it looks like some of these reports came from Israel
Hezbollah reportedly guarding new nuclear facility, being built with help of North Koreans; site said to be attempt to build facility allegedly destroyed by Israel in 2007 attack.
Roi Kais
Published: 01.10.15, 10:42 / Israel News
Intelligence suggests that Syrian President Bashar Assad is building a secret underground plant with the aim of developing nuclear weapons, Germany’s Der Spiegel news magazine reported Friday.
Syria's new nuclear facility?Syria’s new nuclear facility?
If true, the paper claimed that the facility serves as was proof that the Syrian régime has not forgone its desire to attain nuclear arms, despite a 2007 attack attributed to Israel on what was reportedly to be a heavy water reactor secretly built in Syria.
(צילום: AP)
The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which supports Assad’s regime in the bloody conflict in Syria, is guarding the secret project, it added.
Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Der Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Lebanese border.

2 comments:

  1. Personally I do not worry about Iran or Syria getting a Nuke Bomb / Missile. Even North Korea who has one and they ARE CRAZY NUTS do not use their weapon. It is in fact the only proven way to deter western intervention in their leadership and autonomy. This is what I feel is the sole reason these countries obtain Nuke power and weapons. The main reason is the cheap clean electricity. To bad the international community could push for Thorium reactor technology so that the waste can not be used for weapons. This would take away the deterrent of helping other nations build nuclear power plants. Thorium power plants also can not go into meltdown because of the design prevents that.

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  2. BTW this News article came from Der Spiegel and from a Israeli News Org.
    It is an example of why people need to think twice when a news Org makes outragous claims. Bottom line they are often bogus. In this case it most certainly and most likely bogus. The quantities of monies and material needed to do, what is being suggested is not in the Syrian or Iranian budgets atm. Their revenues are cut below the bone. War is expensive especially when a small country trying to fight of Europe, Turkey, and other parts of the ME at the same time.

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