Tuesday, September 11, 2012

How Israel Bombed A Syrian Nuclear Installation

Target: A U.S. Government image of the alleged nuclear reaction after it was bombed by Israel in September 2007. Daily Mail

The Silent Strike: How Israel Bombed A Syrian Nuclear Installation And Kept It Secret. -- New Yorker

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF WAR about Israel’s secret strike on a site believed to be a Syrian nuclear reactor named Al Kibar. In March, 2007, agents from the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, made a daring raid into the Vienna home of Ibrahim Othman, the head of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission. Israel and the U.S. had become worried by Syria’s nuclear ambitions. There were suspicions about a large building under construction in the desert of northeastern Syria. The information the Mossad operatives recovered was damning: roughly three dozen color photographs taken from inside the building, indicating that it was a top-secret Syrian plutonium nuclear reactor. The photographs showed workers from North Korea at the site, and the reactor, from the inside, had many of the same engineering elements as the North Korean reactor in Yongbyon.

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More News On Israel's Secret Strike Against Syria's Nuclear Reactor

'New Yorker' reveals details of Syria reactor strike -- Jerusalem Post
Five years on, new details emerge about Israeli strike on Syrian reactor -- Haaretz
Exposé on How Israel Knew It had to Bomb Syria Reactor -- Arutz Sheva
Israel used 17 tons of explosives to destroy Syrian reactor in 2007, magazine says -- Times of Israel
Israel tight-lipped over report on strike on Syria reactor -- Israel Hayom
Israel attacked a Syrian reactor? News to me, says former army chief -- Times of Israel
Ashkenazi denies knowledge of 2007 strike on Syria -- Jerusalem Post
Ashkenazi: IDF attacked Syrian reactor? I haven't heard of it -- YNet News

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