Okay, cool, from the pics at least you can’t really tell what that other building is or does. But then, the whole complex may have been a goat house. Fact remains, why hide it? Could there be something we don’t know? Food for thought I guess. From my personal (I admit it) stance, I just don’t trust the Assad Gov’t, but I don’t trust mine either.

Thank you

I should have clarified my response. I didn’t see any evidence of cooling towers either, but photos #5 & 6 do show a “pumping station” and evidence of a possible pipeline/trench. It suggests that Syria may have understood that cooling towers would attract unwelcomed attention to the overall facility. On the other hand, one would expect Syrian intelligence to have known that is was under constant high elevation surveillance, and that any suspicious activity would be taken seriously…

Sorry I don’t see any evidence of cooling towers. Help me out, but the photo (if I’ve got it right) #6 is a shot of the post bombing. In #5 there is a pre bombing picture and I see no evidence of cooling tower construction. I will submit to you that IF you wanted to cool the thing you could use water directly from the river and run it back into the river after using it (something that was done in Hanford, Washington for awhile before those darn “enviro” guys raised a ruckus and made them stop!)

There are two sets of ISIS pictures but the second link only has 5 pictures not six and the 5th picture is not of the Syrian site. One thing of note is that in the pre bombing pictures there is no evidence of power lines, or power line construction either. Maybe they were going to build those later though.

Point is Jim, that why would Syria (knowing full well the Israelis weren’t going to accept a nuke plant in their backyard) not just be open about it and insure IEAE inspectors were on site all the as a kind of human shield!

I could be convinced otherwise but I will still maintain that whatever this place was, it wasn’t for peaceful purposes.

In regards to your cooling tower hypothesis, go to the ISIS report and carefully examine aerial photo #6…

It appears rather obvious that a cooling system was partially constructed…

Which brings one to the question, “so what were they really doing?” Building a reactor to produce energy or building a bomb? Good catch in reference to the cooling towers. No cooling towers then it is safe to assume you aren’t building an energy plant! In all of the pictures I’ve seen of the Manhattan project, I never saw any with cooling towers! The layout of the Oak Ridge site is available through the History Channel (I think). The History Channel did a story about the Manhattan Project which included film and photos from those days when the actual work was ongoing.

Having said that, I tend to trust the ISIS reports as they are written by David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire…

I wonder why?