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Dec242010
WikiLeaks: Israel Bombed Syria Nuclear Reactor in 2007 (YNet)
Friday, December 24, 2010 at 8:17 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, EA WikiLeaks, Middle East and Iran
A confidential cable sent on April 25, 2008 by then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to State Department representatives worldwide states that "on September 6 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea's help."
The document is in fact a first official and detailed confirmation of the attack, starting with the intelligence collected before the strike, the cooperation between Israel and the United States, the troubling and harsh conclusions shared by both countries, the Israeli government's decision to bomb Syria and the fear that President Bashar Assad would launch a war in response.