Israeli Strike Into Syria Destroyed Unfinished Nuclear Reactor

It appears the question to what Israel was bombing in Syria has been answered.

The air raid on Syria conducted by Israel last month reportedly targeted a site that Israeli and US intelligence specialists believe was a partly constructed nuclear reactor that may have been modeled after one in North Korea. Citing unnamed US and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports, The New York Times said it appeared Israel carried out the September 6 raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project in a neighboring state. The administration of President George W. Bush was divided about the strike, and some senior policymakers still regard it as premature, the report said. The facility that the Israelis struck in Syria appears to have been much further from completion than the Osirak nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed in Iraq in 1981, the paper said.