Israel's raid on Syria: Prelude to a nuke crisis?

[bourbon]

Sy Hersh fwiw:

A Strike in the Dark: What did Israel bomb in Syria? by Seymour M. Hersh. The New Yorker, February 11, 2008.

That notion was echoed by the ambassador of an Israeli ally who is posted in Tel Aviv. “The truth is not important,” the ambassador told me. “Israel was able to restore its credibility as a deterrent. That is the whole thing. No one will know what the real story is.”

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Reported by The Daily Telegraph (UK) under the headline Israel says Syria nuclear base was raid target: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../wsyria102.xml

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[Rex Brynen]

The video of the USG presentation on the Syrian reactor at al-Kibar, and Syrian-North Korean nuclear cooperation, can be found on the NYT website.

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Via a Twitter alert a rather glowing Israeli article on the intelligence aspects of this action taken now four years ago. The sub-title:

Israel has never admitted to the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor. This is the inside story of how the facility's existence was established and how it was destroyed

I was not aware of the follow-on action, so read till the end.

Link:http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-...emium-1.457362