Al-Jazeera Claiming US Nuked Syrian Facility

[Smurf-Herder]

Hey, here's another crazy conspiracy theory for you:

'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380718519&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"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.

The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes.

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."

[Independent Harry]

not completely out of the realm of possiblity, either way the site was attacked by a foreign power. Doesn't much matter if it was the US or Israelis

[Moby]

Does it really matter what passport the pilot has? It was done with weapons that the US gave to Israel. It was done with training that the US gave Israel. It was probably done with intelligence the US gave Israel.

Maybe the pilot was born in the US and maybe he wasn't. Doesn't really matter much.

I don't think that the USA would actually make the flight but doing everything else is certainly believable.

[Chip]

I don't think that the USA would actually make the flight but doing everything else is certainly believable.[/QUOTE]

The nukes part isn't. Exactly how do you keep that quiet?

[disrupter]

It says they were 'armed' with nukes,
it doesn't specifically say nukes were used on the site.

If we have jets flying around with nuclear ordinance on them, this is very troubling. We need to make sure this WASN'T the case.
if that was the case the insane people need to be booted out of the military & either put in mental institutions or prison.

[Moby]

There are rumors of Israel flying nukes in the past. As far as I know these are only rumors.

[Chip]

Which state or states would you like to see leave the union and why?

[disrupter]

My state for starters.

Well it is the 'conservative' [whatever that means by now] notion that competition makes/forces people & organizations to perform better.

And god knows the US government has gone insane. Full of rot, corporate welfare, bloated budgets, pointless wars, vitriol rhetoric to cover up all their misdeeds & they are spying on every single phone call you make, even this internet connection, & doing it illegally & unconstitutionally, & robbing our civil liberties.

At this point i don't even think the Feds are redeemable.
I would prefer that my state secede from the Union.
We don't have to be at war with them, but DC is nothing but a putrified leech on working people across this nation.

We could have arms length treaties, but we will not be credited with their insane war machine policies & stupidity.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Which state or states would you like to see leave the union and why?

Texas!!!!

Why?

I want to sever ties with the Federal government. They are destroying the Constitution.

Lady Mod

[disrupter]

Smurf, you do realize your thread title is inaccurate don't you?

note: Smurf has one credibility point deducted from his account.

[Moby]

Texas!!!!

Why?

I want to sever ties with the Federal government. They are destroying the Constitution.

OK, then have Alaska leave and the USA can import ALL it's oil.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

OK, then have Alaska leave and the USA can import ALL it's oil.

Won't that be fun? :D

[Chip]

Smurf, you do realize your thread title is inaccurate don't you?


That's why I posted what I did.

[Smurf-Herder]

Smurf, you do realize your thread title is inaccurate don't you?

note: Smurf has one credibility point deducted from his account.

How?

It's merely saying what's in the story.

[Smurf-Herder]

That's why I posted what I did.

That's the impression the story conveyed.

Why mention nukes, if the story in Al-Jezeera wasn't intended to have people believe they were used. Other stories on this story specifically say the US nuked the facility, in their headline.

[disrupter]

No, the article states that the planes that bombed the site were armed with nukes. It doesn't say nukes were used. It should have made that point clear. Either poor journalism or a bit of spin in the story.
Your thread explicitly says they said nukes were used. Which is highly improbable. That would cause an uproar, which Syrians & many others would have no problem & a legitimate reason to exploit.

Obviously if nukes had been used radioactive debris would be in evidence & provable. Additionally there would have been a drifting cloud of radiation.

Sorry punkin, all common sense says you either inadvertantly or intentionally titled this thread inaccurately.

[Smurf-Herder]

No, the article states that the planes that bombed the site were armed with nukes. It doesn't say nukes were used. It should have made that point clear. Either poor journalism or a bit of spin in the story.
Your thread explicitly says they said nukes were used. Which is highly improbable. That would cause an uproar, which Syrians & many others would have no problem & a legitimate reason to exploit.

Obviously if nukes had been used radioactive debris would be in evidence & provable. Additionally there would have been a drifting cloud of radiation.

Obviously. That's why it's obvious the story is a ploy by Al-Jezeera to appeal to conspiracy nuts; to promote anger against the US in the moslem world.

Sorry punkin, all common sense says you either inadvertantly or intentionally titled this thread inaccurately.

You're arguing a technicality. The intention of the article was to imply the US used a tactical nuke on the Syrian site. Do you actually believe we'd send planes on a military mission armed with nukes, to NOT use the nukes? Isn't that rather wasteful - mounting nukes on a plane for nothing? So the obvious thought of the reader who would believe the article is that we used a nuke.

And the whole article is ridiculous, in that the US would fly a mission using Israeli planes for defense. Why would the US even fly this misssion. And if they did, it would only be because we had something Israel didn't - like nukes ..... which you say weren't used. I say no US planes were even involved in the first place; and the whole story is bullshit.

[disrupter]

Um, we just had 6 nukes on a plane flying across the domestic US.

You state there are stories that explicitly state the site was nuked. Please provide links or i will doubt your credibility.

After Bush intentionally rocketed Al Jazeera stations in Iraq & elsewhere, murdering journalists there, the US has no clean hands.
Additionally it has a photo journalist who is guilty of nothing more than working for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan locked up in Gitmo.

You seem to have fallen for their semantic trap.
But as a fellow semantic trap artist yourself . . .

what can i say?

Not everyone is as dumb as the semantic trap artists would hope.

[Smurf-Herder]

Um, we just had 6 nukes on a plane flying across the domestic US.

You state there are stories that explicitly state the site was nuked. Please provide links or i will doubt your credibility.

After Bush intentionally rocketed Al Jazeera stations in Iraq & elsewhere, murdering journalists there, the US has no clean hands.
Additionally it has a photo journalist who is guilty of nothing more than working for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan locked up in Gitmo.

You seem to have fallen for their semantic trap.
But as a fellow semantic trap artist yourself . . .

what can i say?

Not everyone is as dumb as the semantic trap artists would hope.

This is a lousey arabic translation of one - inplying a nuke was used:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.islammemo.cc/article1.aspx%3Fid%3D53818

The JAWA Report commenting on the above:

U.S. Nuked Syrian Nuke Facility: A Conspiracy Theory Begins!
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189989.php

And here are others:

U.S. Nuked Syrian Nuke Facility
http://tailrank.com/3607318/U-S-Nuked-Syrian-Nuke-Facility

Al-Jazeera: Strike on Syria was made by US Air Force with tactical nukes
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/12309.htm

And like I said, I don't believe the story anyway. The whole thing is geared to having people think we used nukes; and that it was us instead of Israel who took out the facility.

All this, and the original story appears to have been removed from the Al-Jezeera site anyway. So there's no need for you to continue to try and defend them, from what you apparently think I'm wrongly accusing them of.

[Bill]

If the published pics are any guide, the attack couldn't have been nuclear.

If the published pics are of the site, it's a silly report.

Could the US have had planes in the air for support? Sure, possible. But it's not particularly necessary to presuppose that.