jpost.com - 11/25/2008
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The chief UN nuclear inspector has urged caution against prematurely judging Syria's atomic program by reminding diplomats about false US claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, comments released Tuesday show. The bluntness of remarks by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the ...
haaretz.com - 11/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush believes that
Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting...
anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week. After Olmert ...
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Bush to Olmert: Why are you giving Syria the ...
timesonline.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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Britain re-established high-level intelligence links with the Syrian
authorities as David Miliband made his landmark visit to...
Damascus yesterday, according to senior Syrian officials. The move, first raised earlier this year at a meeting in New York ...
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Britain re-establishes high-level intelligence links ...
jpost.com - 11/24/2008
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jpost.com —
The chief UN nuclear inspector said Monday that
Syria had a right to his agency's help in...
planning a power-producing atomic reactor, in what diplomats described as a rejection of US-led efforts to block the aid. The clash reflected tensions between ...
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ElBaradei clashes with US over Syria | Middle East | ...
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'Innocent until proven guilty'?
Israel Matzav —
'Innocent until proven guilty'? [image] Seeking IAEA support for funding a Syrian nuclear reactor, Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the feckless IAEA, leaped into action again Tuesday, urging his board members to reserve judgment of the Assad regime Syrian brothers ' nuclear capability. According to ElBaradei, the ' Syrian brothers ' are innocent until proven guilty . Speaking at a closed meeting of the IAEA's board on Monday, ElBaradei did not mention the United States by name. But his reference to claims that Saddam had a secret chemical, nuclear and biological weapons program - assertions that helped form the US rationale for the invasion of Iraq - made it ...
ElBaradei Springs Into Action, Declares Syria 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty'
Little Green Footballs —
The UN’s blind watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is pushing hard to continue helping the Syrians build a nuclear reactor, despite new evidence that they were conducting a clandestine nuclear project. ElBaradei says that just like individuals, countries should be considered innocent until proven guilty: ‘Don’t prejudge Syrian nuclear program.’
“There are claims against Iraq, which proved to be bonkers, but only after a terrible war,” ElBaradei said after the US and its allies questioned Syria’s right to his agency’s help in planning a power-producing atomic reactor.
“There is one thing called ...
IAEA Still Giving Syria Benefit of Doubt Over Nuclear Facility
A Blog For All —
... suggesting that Syria was building a clandestine nuclear facility, the IAEA still clings to the notion that Syria was innocent until proven guilty of violating nuclear proliferation guidelines. We shouldn't prejudge the Syrians and their intentions . Right. Let's get this straight. The IAEA waited 9 months before deciding to actually check and see what the Syrians were doing at Al Kibar, the site of the Sept. 6 airstrike, and they found that it had been scrubbed. The Syrians wasted no time trying to scrub the site of any traces of what had been built and burying what ...
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