Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is a former al-Qaeda terrorist who has also worked closely with Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before double crossing him.
The only thing that has changed about al-Sharaa is his name (from Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) and his attire: He now wears a suit. He has fooled the naive West, including Trump, through mere image. Syrian minorities are paying the price:
Syrian Christians and Alawites are being slaughtered in Syria by soldiers of the ISIS/AlQaeda terrorist government. The death toll is 1800 in just the last few days, with many victims still missing. Entire villages are being slaughtered by these terrorist govt forces. These… pic.twitter.com/Gm0YVlg9VM
— Iraqi Christian Foundation (@iraqschristians) March 8, 2025
Now al-Sharaa has “a treasure trove of nuclear material that can be weaponized,” but of course his government will continue to minimize any malign intent. This leaves Israel with an obvious problem as its enemies bloviate about how Israel uses excessive force to keep its country existing in a neighborhood of jihadist thugs.
“Nuclear material found in Syria will remain in the country, minister says,” Times of Israel, August 18, 2026:
Nuclear material found at an undisclosed site in Syria is not dangerous and will remain in Syrian custody, subject to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s guarantees, Syria’s foreign minister says.
Asaad al-Shibani adds in a joint press conference with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in Damascus that Syria has the right to use the material for civil and peaceful purposes.
Since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, Syria’s new authorities have committed to working with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to address the legacy of nuclear activities during decades of Assad family rule.
Grossi says the agency was able to access the site after the Syrian government notified it.
Grossi adds that his agency had found several tons of nuclear materials at a previously undeclared site dating from the rule of Syria’s previous authorities.
“After your courageous decision to inform us that there was another place, another site where nuclear material had been stored, we were able to access this place… we are talking about a few tons of nuclear material that could be put to bad use,” he says…
Incurious media says
Where did nuclear material found in Syria originally come from?
Does Syria have an indigenous Syrian nuclear program, and if so, why?
Is it sourced from Iraq, such as Saddam Hussein’s regime, or Libya, or Iran?
And why hasn’t the media reported it before now?
gravenimage says
Just what I was going to ask. Is this part of the much sneered at weapons of mass destruction? I had thought that Assad might have been sitting on them–but now Al Sharaa wants to use them…
Beans🫘 says
They had a secret site which Israel took out a few years ago. I am pretty sure this was leftover stock from that location placed into another location.
Syria didn’t tell anyone they had the facility. And Israel didn’t tell anyone till years later they took it out, it didn’t make the news. Both sides decided to keep their mouth shut for different reasons.
What I don’t understand is how this is even negotiable. A radical Islamic state, pretty much an Isis state pretending to be peaceful out of taqia and weakness, why are we even talking about this. This should be a strong NO!
janet says
Isn’t it time to blow up all this amo on the side of the terrorists -good grief they have earned the honor of being blown to smitherreens!
Taffy says
If the description “several tons of nuclear materials” is accurate, it is most likely yellowcake, and not an immediate threat to Israel or anyone else. At this juncture, Syria does not possess the means to refine that into weapons grade uranium or even uranium for power plant operations.
The more immediate threat to Israel is the Turkey-Syria alliance. Erdoğan Has his eyes on forming a caliphate, in effect bringing back the Ottoman Empire with himself as the Sultan or Calif. Israel is inconveniently in the way of that grandiose objective.
mgoldberg says
Yes, but it can be made into a dirty bomb to blow up some restaurants and such when sold off to ‘unknown’ terror groups.
gravenimage says
+1
Namer says
And democrats fail to understand this is a problem.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Namer.
Just one of many things that they do not understand.