INTERVIEW WITH IAEA BOSS MOHAMED ELBARADEI 'If We Fail, Humanity's Survival Will Be o

[Kampfbaer]

INTERVIEW WITH IAEA BOSS MOHAMED ELBARADEI
'If We Fail, Humanity's Survival Will Be on the Line'
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks to SPIEGEL about Israel's propensity for unilateral action against countries like Syria, the US's tendency to keep the IAEA in the dark and the threat of nuclear terrorism.

SPIEGEL: Mr. ElBaradei, last September Israeli bombers destroyed a Syrian compound in which plutonium was allegedly being produced for nuclear weapons. Now we could even see an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Is this a trend in the Middle East -- attack instead of negotiate?

ElBaradei: I hope not. Of course, the use of force can only be legitimized by the United Nations. Unilateral military actions undermine the international system of agreements. We are standing at a historic turning point.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,559085,00.html

[ed316]

Unilateral military actions undermine the international system of agreements. We are standing at a historic turning point.


Yes. It's call put up or shut up.

[Laworkerbee]

Unilateral military actions undermine the international system of agreements.

Newsflash Mr Elbaradei

Your beloved international system of agreements is coming apart at the seems and your UN is almost irrelevant.

[Snoshi]

Oh yes.. I can only imagine how it would work out if Israel would report it to IAEA..

EDIT: I cant imagine how this man can be a chief for this organisation.. He is supposed to be neutral..

[eskachig]

Oh yes.. I can only imagine how it would work out if Israel would report it to IAEA..Israel could always withdraw you know, but while they're a party the should follow th rules.


EDIT: I cant imagine how this man can be a chief for this organisation.. He is supposed to be neutral..He doesn't seem overly biased to me, just against unilateral military action and use of nuclear power for military purposes. Basically, someone who you'd want to run an organization like this.

[IDF_TANKER]

Mr. Baradey should pull his head out of his arse and realize that without "Israel's propensity for unilateral action" the world with nuclear Iraq and Syria would be much much closer to "the Line" now. Perhaps he is frustrated by the fact that his agency impotence to deal with these threats makes Israel to take an action. Surely, they all condemn..., but I'm 100% sure that there is no sane person out there not sleeping more calmly knowing that ME nut jobs like Assad or Saddam not having nukes at their disposal.

[eskachig]

Mr. Baradey should pull his head out of his arse and realize that without "Israel's propensity for unilateral action" the world with nuclear Iraq and Syria would be much much closer to "the Line" now. Perhaps he is frustrated by the fact that his agency impotence to deal with these threats makes Israel to take an action. Surely, they all condemn..., but I'm 100% sure that there is no sane person out there not sleeping more calmly knowing that ME nut jobs like Assad or Saddam not having nukes at their disposal.Israel attacked Iraq now? And he complains about the fact that nobody shared any suspicions with them so that he could put pressure on Syria as apparently the reactor was known about a year prior. IAEA is not an intel agency, if nobody appraises it of threats it cannot act.

[IDF_TANKER]

Israel attacked Iraq now?
I was talking about Osirak - was it really so hard to understand given the context? :roll:


And he complains about the fact that nobody shared any suspicions with them so that he could put pressure on Syria as apparently the reactor was known about a year prior. IAEA is not an intel agency, if nobody appraises it of threats it cannot act.And then what? Years of useless sanctions and half-measures like in the case of Iran? Sorry, but I'm afraid we did not really have a choice.

[Moledet]

If we had reported the reactor it would probably look like this:
The UN asks for inspections at the site, a few months later after putting tons of AA defense around it and building all kind of double walls and secret elevators Assad agrees to inspections, the UN concludes it's a research reactor and it's legitimized by the UN although it clearly isn't for research.

Just like the western world thanked us a few years after the bombing of the Iraqi reactor they will thank us for the bombing of the Syrian reactor one day.

[jokuvaan]

Just like the western world thanked us a few years after the bombing of the Iraqi reactor they will thank us for the bombing of the Syrian reactor one day.Funny I thought west is already happy about hitting into Syria.

[Snoshi]

Funny I thought west is already happy about hitting into Syria.

And many Arab states that kept quite.

[Calanen]

Reminds me of this cartoon....

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6594/drastic20inactionsxd1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Calanen]

Or this one.....

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4879/jihadgifwv0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Note, to all you infidels, Jihad IN FACT means 'Inner spiritual struggle'. Any association between jihad and violence is a pure misunderstanding of the misunderstanders and apostates, who will have to die for such heresy. That is all.

[Hispeed1]

Newsflash Mr Elbaradei

Your beloved international system of agreements is coming apart at the seems and your UN is almost irrelevant.

Sad but true. I admire and respect what the U.N. stands for, but nowadays it's pretty toothless.

[kahn267]

I dont mean to be racist or anything
but......

Putting a Muslim in charge of being a nuclear watchdog when the world's nuclear issue revolves around an Islamic country really seems a bit stupid to me.

Then again, when hasn't the UN been bias?

http://www.meib.org/images/0007_nasrallah_annan.jpg

[2Sheds_Jackson]

ElBaradei: I hope not. Of course, the use of force can only be legitimized by the United Nations. Unilateral military actions undermine the international system of agreements. We are standing at a historic turning point.

Gotta hand it to ElBaradei, he's got the career bureaucrat's mantra down pat. The UN is indispensable. The world cannot function without it. Nothing is legitimate without it's stamp of approval (available to the highest bidder). And one wonders exactly how one negotiates an IAEA inspection of a facility that according to Syria, never existed to begin with?

[The Balkan]

I dont mean to be racist or anything
but......

Putting a Muslim in charge of being a nuclear watchdog when the world's nuclear issue revolves around an Islamic country really seems a bit stupid to me.

Then again, when hasn't the UN been bias?

http://www.meib.org/images/0007_nasrallah_annan.jpg


The UN is bias cuz the guy shook hands with an Arab?

[Lambert58]

I dont mean to be racist or anything
but......

Putting a Muslim in charge of being a nuclear watchdog when the world's nuclear issue revolves around an Islamic country really seems a bit stupid to me.

Then again, when hasn't the UN been bias?

http://www.meib.org/images/0007_nasrallah_annan.jpg

those two idiots ^^, and that picture, define the failure of the entire Earth from 2001 - 2007.

...and why the f98k do people think islam is a race? are ya fking stupid?

[IDF_TANKER]

The UN is bias cuz the guy shook hands with an Arab?

The head of a terrorist organization, to be more precise, which this "an Arab" happens to be.

[IDF_TANKER]

...and why the f98k do people think islam is a race? are ya fking stupid?

He is not, but many stupid people usually tend to call racism anything said against Islam.

[kahn267]

those two idiots ^^, and that picture, define the failure of the entire Earth from 2001 - 2007.

...and why the f98k do people think islam is a race? are ya fking stupid?

I could have said Anti Semetic
but then again I think Jews have had that title pretty much reserved for them.

[Calanen]

He is not, but many stupid people usually tend to call racism anything said against Islam.

It has more of a ring to it than 'sectarianism'.

[kahn267]

Israel attacked Iraq now? And he complains about the fact that nobody shared any suspicions with them so that he could put pressure on Syria as apparently the reactor was known about a year prior. IAEA is not an intel agency, if nobody appraises it of threats it cannot act.

You obviously have no recollection of history. To bring you news that is like over 20 years old, Israel was the first country to bomb a nuclear facility which Saddam had built in the 80s. Thanks to Israel's brilliance in performing this task, the War on Terror is alot better then it could have been.