Before and after the Israeli strike. A nice clean-up job by the Syrians.
A senior U.S. intelligence officer:
It’s a magic act — here today, gone tomorrow. It doesn’t lower suspicions, it raises them. This was not a long-term decommissioning of a building, which can take a year. It was speedy. It’s incredible that they could have gone to that effort to make something go away.
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security:
It looks like Syria is trying to hide something and destroy the evidence of some activity. But it won’t work. Syria has got to answer questions about what it was doing.
Joseph Cirincione, an expert on nuclear proliferation at the Center for American Progress:
It’s clearly very suspicious. The Syrians were up to something that they clearly didn’t want the world to know about.
I wonder what that could be.
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