The Mossad's Secret War In Syria

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region. (Reuters)

The Spies Inside Damascus -- Ronen Bergman, Foreign Policy

The Mossad's secret war on the Syrian WMD machine.

On Aug. 20, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama declared that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began shifting around or using his chemical weapons, Obama would consider that "a red line." The implication was that such a move would lead to American intervention in Syria. Some officials from the Israeli Foreign Ministry believed that Obama drew the line because he believed it would never be crossed. If that was his assumption, he made it based, in part, on assessments received from the Israeli intelligence services, which have waged a multidecade clandestine campaign to strip Assad of his deadliest weapons -- and which also have emerged as the United States' primary partners in collecting information on Middle Eastern regimes.

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My Comment: The interesting part of this Foreign Policy report is the U.S. administration's reluctance in accepting the intelligence that Mossad was providing to them. In short .... the White House went into denial mode when informed of Syria's initial chemical attacks this spring. Read it all.