Discovery Of Enriched Uranium In Syria and al-Qaida Super-sized 9-11 Attack Threatened

Israeli says “We told you so.”

Investigators from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) which works under the auspices of the United Nations have found traces of enriched uranium in Syria, a sign the country had been attempting to develop a nuclear weapons program, Reuters reported Monday.

The enriched uranium was discovered at the same site of a North Korea built and Iran financed reactor which was destroyed by what many feel was a combined bombing by the Israeli Air Force jets and special operations forces in September 2007. The raid has been criticized as illegitimate but this discovery lessens that… IAEA has not released a formal report and made no comment.

Tons of yellowcake uranium was discovered in Iraq and secretly shipped to Canada for processing. Yellowcakes (also called urania) are uranium concentrates obtained from leach solutions. They represent an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is not knownm if any of the Iraqi stockpile found its way into Syria to be processed. It seems more likely the enriched uranium was refined elsewhere and shipped to Syria for further processing in the reactor into U239 (Plutonium) which is a nuclear bomb grade element.

“The agency clearly thinks it has something significant enough to report to put Syria on the (nuclear safeguards) agenda right after North Korea and Iran,” one senior diplomat told Reuters.

“It isn’t enough to conclude or prove what the Syrians were doing but the IAEA has concluded this requires further investigation,” another diplomat with ties to the organization said.

“It was a man-made component, not natural (ore). There is no sign there was already nuclear fuel or (production) activity there,” a third diplomat told Reuters.

Israeli, that has not admitted to the reactor’s destruction, has privately asserted Syria was trying to produce bomb grade material and that why it had to act.

Coincident to the Syria announcement Al-Qaida is saying it is planning an attack on the US more devastating than 9-11. There is no apparent link between Syria and al-Qaida’s threat.

Ten days ago rumor was rift of an Iran prepared freighter loaded with radioactive sand or powder intended to be detonated off Israel’s shore to be carried by prevailing wind to contaminating large areas. That ship was hijacked by pirates some of whom mysteriously died apparently from the ship’s contents.