Self-Identifying Uselessness
As IAEA chief protests more effective method … somewhat belatedly:
Chief UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei Sunday accused Israel of taking “the law into their own hands” with a raid on Syria, and demanded more information about what was hit.
Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished “any evidence at all” to prove that the Syrian site bombed last month was a secret nuclear facility, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN.
Not sure why he expects they’d give it to him. They’re having too much fun keeping the Syrians guessing.
“That, to me, is very distressful because we have a system; if countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us. We have the authority to go out and investigate,” he said.
“Then, when they tell us they have no nukes, we are able to satisfy the world: Saddam, no WMD, no problem. Kim Jong Il, not very much WMD, not very much problem. Iran, not so much WMD yet, not so much problem … yet. You see?” ElBaradei said. “Also, we engage in talks. Talk, talk, talk. It is very important. But now, in Syria, no talks. Nothing for IAEA to do.”
I made up the last part. He didn’t actually say that. Sorry.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:58 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2007
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October 29th, 2007 at 12:35 am
ElBaradei and his third world tin-pot chorus have a “system” all right; the trouble for him is that many of us are on to him.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:05 am
It’s time to call a spade a spade.
Mohamed ElBaradei is a defacto member of the Iranian regime and axis.
“We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency. “That’s why we have said that we cannot give Iran a pass right now, because there is still a lot of question marks.
“But have we seen Iran having the nuclear material that can readily be used into a weapon? No. Have we seen an active weaponization program? No.”
from “U.N. concerned about anti-Iran rhetoric”
ElBaradei says he has no evidence Tehran is developing nuclear weapons
The Associated Press
He will not be convinced a weapons program until Tel Aviv or Washington DC is vaporized. Even then he will want further tests and dialogue.
This man’s Noble Peace prize could prove to be as useful to Muslim atomic proliferation as A. Q. Khan’s network. If he enables Iran to acheive their goals ElBaradei will have the blood of millions on his hands. He’ll make Yasser Arafat look like a petty street thug.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:34 am
“Self-Identifying Uselessness” pretty much nails the UN as a whole.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Why, how can you say the U.N. is useless!? The U.N. has proven itself useful to certain countries over and over. How else could Cuba, for instance, have the sanction and prestige of sitting on the Human Rights committee of the Global Government? Sanction and prestige is a useful tool for murdering dictators, thugs, internatioanal scam artists, shysters, and other things that crawl out from under the rocks when common sense and ethics are made outlaw.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Ha! I laughed at loud at that first quote. “Taking the law into their own hands”?? Where does he get this language, the movies? Does he watch old Westerns or something?
Taking their survival into their own hands, yeah. Good thing, too.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:53 am
If it was a nice benign fluffy bunny site the Syrians wouldn’t have sanitized it the way The Wolf cleaned Jules and Vinnie Vega’s screw up in Pulp Fiction, they’d have run to the UN whining about it.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:10 am
ELB:
if countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us. We have the authority to go out and investigate
That “authority” and a nickel might have bought you a cup of coffee, 50 years ago.
Iran has gotten very adept at playing “the IAEA”. Once (at least) they feted El Baradei quite nicely, and he made some very conciliatory noises after that.
Recently, Iran replaced its chief nuclear spokesperson Al Larajani with a much more messianic/Ahmadinejhad friendly guy.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:06 am
In what kind of Multiculti All Cultures Are Equal Mondo-Bizzarro World does a guy named “Mohammed” have any authority, moral or otherwise, over nuclear proliferation? The only thing more ludicrous would be say, Cuba and Libya running the UN Human Rights Council.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Actually el-Baradei is incorrect. Shortly after the Washington Post reported that Syria was dismantling the site and
The IAEA has not been provided any evidence about the Syrian facility and has been unable to obtain any reliable details about the Sept. 6 strike, said a European diplomat familiar with the agency’s internal discussions.
However shortly after the Post reported that, apparently not wanting to seem out of it, the IAEA leaked to the AP
Separately, two diplomats said the images, acquired Thursday, did not at first examination appear to substantiate reports that the target was a nuclear installation, but emphasized that the photos were still under examination. All of those who spoke to The Associated Press were briefed on the agency’s receipt of the images but demanded anonymity because their information was confidential. Officials of the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog and the U.S. diplomatic mission to the IAEA had no comment.
Of course within the nxt week both the NYT and WaPo and any other news organization worth its salt has been able to obtain pictures of the site from commercial satellite companies. Amazing that the Clousseaus of the IAEA first claimed that they didn’t have the pictures, than that they did but saw no evidence that it was a nuclear facility being built and then finally were scooped by regular news agencies that got independent verification that the site was likely nuclear.
As I blogged, they seem like a passive aggressive watchdog group.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished “any evidence at all” to prove that the Syrian site bombed last month was a secret nuclear facility, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN.
And we’re not going to, ElBaradei, you rat bastard sellout.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I sense that something is coming within the next few months, if not the next few weeks, in regards to Iran.
It all depends on who makes the first move. Will it be Iran doing something patently and blatantly stupid, such as shutting down the Straits of Hormuz or sending a few rockets into Israel? Or will it be the United States and Israel, with tacit support of Europe (whose elites will publicly tell us we’re the Devil Incarnate, but sub rosa say, ‘Yes, America is the most dangerous nation…and our most secret and valuable weapon, wink wink’) and Turkey (whose military may put forth a ruse of going after the militant PKK rebels as cover for the US and Israel to do their work without a bunch of lefty news networks blurting out military operations).
Side note: I will eat an entire jar of Vegemite (just for Jules) if the hedge funds and other shady dicks in the energy pits dump oil and gasoline like Britney Spears with the clap once these operations are through. $100+/bbl oil reeks of insider trading and pure war profiteering, and I will sit back and laugh as oil drops $50 in one session. The only saving grace is that gas prices have gone up a little, but that’s certainly no excuse to make money off of “geopolitical concerns.”