Oct

17

UPDATED: Document Confirms Israeli Strike on Syrian Nuke Reactor?

by Stephan Tawney | 6:26 pm 

UPDATE: RW from Hot Air points to Google’s cache of the earlier page. Sure enough in the original article:

Moreover, Israel was the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations’ airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria. He vowed that whenever a right of reply was exercised, Syria would expose the underlying goals of the Zionist entity.

Emphasis mine. It seems the earlier paraphrase did, indeed, mention nuclear facilities and the incorrect date.

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Early this morning I posted about the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations confirming the September 6 Israeli raid on Syria did, indeed, hit a nuclear reactor. Well, unbeknownst to me, Syria apparently denied it later. Well a document just obtained by Fox News apparently does confirm that Israel’s air strike hit a nuclear facility.

A high-ranking Syrian official confirmed that Israel’s airstrike last month in northern Syria hit a nuclear facility, according to a document obtained Wednesday by FOX News.

“Israel was the fourth-largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations’ airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria,” Syrian representative Bassam Darwish is quoted in the document as saying.

Diplomats familiar with the document cannot explain why July 6 was invoked, instead of Sept. 6, the date both countries say an incident occurred. A State Department source tells FOX News the best explanation is that Darwish misspoke…

One U.S. delegate told colleagues he could not believe his ears when the Syrian diplomat made his statement and that the resulting document was close to verbatim, and another source told FOX News the document reinforces what people heard [the Syrian representative] say in the actual debate.

So this all seemed fine and dandy to me…until Allah pointed something out. The quote Fox points out is:

action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria

Now that’s not simply a misquote. Fox explicitly takes the time to report that diplomats can’t explain why July 6 was invoked, not September 6. What’s more, the document at the UN doesn’t contain the quote. It contains a paraphrase:

Moreover, the entity that was the fourth largest exporter of lethal weapons in the world, that which violated the airspace of sovereign States and carried out military aggression against them, as had happened on 6 September against Syria, such an entity, with all those characteristics and more, had no right to go on lying without shame.

The document at the UN doesn’t quote Darwish, instead only paraphrasing his quote using the correct date: September 6. More importantly: The new UN document doesn’t mention nuclear facilities.

Both the Jerusalem Post and Fox News claim that Darwish said “nuclear facilities”. Additionally, a commentator over at Hot Air claims to have seen “nuclear facilities” while reading the document earlier. An official with the State Department was at least aware of the quote, giving one regarding the mistake on the date him/herself.

Looking up the Page Info on Firefox, shows the page having been modified today at 5:07PM. So, was a paraphrase put in, instead of the quote, in order to remove the part about the nuclear facility? More as details become available.

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