Posted on 09/21/2007 12:58:45 PM PDT by SmithL
Israel and the United States collaborated on intelligence ahead of an alleged IAF raid on a suspected Syrian nuclear site on September 6, the Washington Post reported Friday.
According to the report, Israel informed the US this past summer that North Korean personnel were in Syria to help the country's nuclear program. The intelligence in question reportedly included satellite imagery.
In return, the US provided some sort of corroboration.
According to US sources, the raid - which Israel has yet to officially confirm or deny - took place overnight to minimize casualties, and secrecy was maintained at such a level that the pilots on the mission were not briefed until after they were in the air.
Brookings Institutions analyst Bruce Riedel confirmed that the target of the raid had been "extremely important."
"The decision was taken despite [Israel's] concerns it could produce a war," Riedel told the Washington Post.
The US has refrained from responding to the action out of concern that it would undermine efforts to persuade North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program.
Thus far, little is known about what the North Korean representatives were doing in Syria.
While both Pyongyang and Damascus denied this week that they were cooperating on nuclear projects, senior officials from Syria's governing party were meeting in North Korea Friday with senior officials from Pyongyang to discuss strengthened ties.
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All this is good! What I don’t understand, though, is something said in the earlier reports. It was stated that the Syrian air defense system went dead, just before the run. How did that happen? What ever it was, we need to get one of those.
MORE!!! MORE!!!
Sounds very much like the IDFAF attack on Iraqi nuke facility several years ago. These guys have the best intel in the world and they have the balls to carry out what needs to be done.
When it absolutely, positively has to be blown to smithereens ASAP, call Tel Aviv Express.
Several options.
(1) HARM missiles
(2) Special Forces teams on the ground
(3) Jamming from an airborne platform
(4) Cyberwar assets that disabled the batteries
Off to a great start! Let’s roll up the axis of evil!
Let’s hope we have the “Tell Aviv Express” on speed dial.
I suspect we do.
BUMP!
They used some kind of beeber device which stuned the air defense systems.
Just hope they didn’t have a site that the Israeli’s didn’t know about.
The U.S. has the capability and resources to take care of this, is it a message from Israel to Iran?
Maybe....
The U.S. has the capability and resources to take care of this, is it a message from Israel to Iran?
Maybe....
I did not double post, malfunction!
Big mistake. We need to maximize causalities so they don't get up to more mischief. Dead engineers and technicians don't start making more missiles.
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