Israel Knew About ‘Secret Syrian Projects’ 5 Years Before Nuclear Reactor Bombing
An official document released this week shows that the Israeli intelligence community knew of 'top secret projects' being discussed by the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission
The Military Intelligence Directorate had assessed that Syria is attempting to build a nuclear reactor over 20 years ago, about five years before an Israeli airstrike at the facility that was eventually built.
According to intelligence documents from 2002 that are now being published for the first time, “Recently it has become known that the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria is discussing or has discussed top secret projects with which we weren’t familiar… The data we have does not point to an active nuclear military program”.
The intelligence document released on Tuesday.
The document shows that the Israeli intelligence assessment existed four years prior to what was previously known. Furthermore, the intelligence wing of the Mossad wrote a similar assessment in 2004.
On September 6, 2007, Israel attacked and destroyed the Deir ez-Zur reactor in north-east Syria,
By Haaretz
