Bs"dSaturday, Oct 13, 2007

NY Times: Israel Bombed Syrian Nuclear ReactorArutz-7
(IsraelNN.com) The Israeli strike against northern Syria last month targeted a partially built nuclear plant, the New York Times reported Saturday. The report, based on American intelligence sources, said that the operation was comparable to Israel's bombing of Iraq'a Osirak nuclear reactor in 1991, although the Sytian facility was in a much earlier stage of construction, and “it would have been years before the Syrians could have used the reactor to produce the spent nuclear fuel that could, through a series of additional steps, be reprocessed into bomb-grade plutonium,” the report said.
For this reason, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates did not approve of the operation, and they were "particularly concerned about the ramifications of a pre-emptive strike in the absence of an urgent threat."
CLICK HERE FOR THE NY TIMES ARTICLE... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/washington/14weapons.html?ei=5065&en=259c02cddbf6503f&ex=1192939200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print