I'm disillusioned with activists and activism. My expert analysis for today on Amnesty's comment is a very Syrian one - Toz.

FOXNews accuses Syria of admitting that Israel hit a Nuclear facility:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302656,00.html

Thanks for the ass Wassim. Why the dissillusion?

Syria Almighty, this line is the giveaway: "according to a document obtained Wednesday by FOX News."

I put about as much value on documents 'obtained' by FucksNews as, well, nothing.

"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,"

Their juicy quote from the Syrian official doesn't even make sense!!

First, he says 6 July, when the attack was actually 6 Sept. And secondly, does he ACTUALLY say Israel was targeting Syrian nuclear facilities?? It's all a bit of a jumble. But trust Fox to rely on confusion to spread neo-belligerence.

A more confused, incoherent mass I have never met. They are the "rebels without a clue" possessing a deep seated and infantile hostility to authority and claiming to be rebelling against a status quo but are in fact conforming to it.

Syria never referred to nuclear site: UN Spokesman

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hOfeiWXFOZ5v8QIeW2dWejDFVzpg

Lol, FAUXNews fails again.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations blamed an interpreter's error for an erroneous report that Syria claimed an Israeli airstrike hit a Syrian nuclear facility, a mistake that made headlines in the Middle East and heightened concerns over Damascus' nuclear ambitions.
Syria denied on Wednesday that one of its representatives told the U.N. General Assembly's committee that deals with disarmament on Tuesday that Israel had attacked a Syrian nuclear facility and added that "such facilities do not exist in Syria."

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, quoting an unnamed Foreign Ministry source, said its representative was misquoted — and after more than seven hours of investigation the United Nations said that was indeed the case.

"There was an interpretation error made yesterday when the First Committee was in session," U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq said. "There was no use of the word nuclear."

"Although in English the interpreter had suggested that the Syrian delegate had referred to an attack on a nuclear facility, what he said was 'like what happened on the 6th of September against my country,"' Haq said.

The incident started Tuesday night with a U.N. press summary of the First Committee that paraphrased an unnamed Syrian representative as saying that "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."

Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Sept. 6, not July 6.

The target remains unknown but widespread reports say it may have been a nascent nuclear facility, a claim Syria has denied.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, the spokesman's office said Wednesday morning the Syrian representative spoke in Arabic.

After several hours, Haq said the exact words of the English interpreter were: "An entity that is the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction in the world, an entity that violates other countries' airspace, and that takes action against nuclear facilities, including the attack on 6 July this year on a nuclear facility in my country — that entity has no right to lie, which it has done consistently."

It took until late afternoon for the U.N. to issue the correct translation from the original Arabic words spoken by the Syrian representative.

According to the corrected text, the Syrian delegate said: "...the (entity) that is ranking number four among the exporters of lethal weapons in the world; that which violates the airspace of sovereign states and carries out military aggression against them, like what happened on Sept. 6 against my country, such entity with all those characteristics and even more, has no right for its representative to go on lying without shame..."

The Syrian representative was replying to a speech to the committee on Monday by Israeli Ambassador Miriam Ziv, deputy director general for strategic affairs in the Foreign Ministry, who accused Syria of continuing to transfer weapons to Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.

According to the U.N., the Syrian delegate accused Israel of planting "millions of cluster bombs in Lebanon" and refusing to hand over the relevant maps, of burying "nuclear wastes" in the occupied Palestinian territories, of building illegal settlements, and of trying "to change the identity of the Syrian territories" in the Golan Heights which Israel captured in the 1967 war.

On Wednesday, before the U.N. announced the error, the Syrian representative demanded at the disarmament committee that the U.N. investigate how the mistake was made, suggesting that it was deliberate, and correct the record.

Israeli radio stations, citing unidentified Israeli diplomats, on Wednesday quoted the Syrians as telling the U.N. meeting that a nuclear target had been struck. However, the Israeli radio reports did not say whether the Israeli diplomats had attended the session or merely had read the U.N. press release on the meeting.

President Bashar Assad said earlier this month that the target was an "unused military building."

Asked about the Sept. 6 incident on Tuesday, before the erroneous report surfaced, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "we have not received any concrete evidence and concrete information. We need to get more clear information."

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