Good for them: Israel hacked Syrian nuke info

Mon, 11/02/2009 - 1:44pm

Today's good news is that Israeli agents snuck into a London hotel room and planted software in a Syrian official's laptop that enabled them to collect information on Syria's secret nuclear program. This set up the surprise air strike in September 2007 against a nearly completed reactor out in the eastern Syrian desert.

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And that's what I'm talk'en

by Tyrtaios on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 2:49pm

And that's what I'm talk'en about. Risk aversive - Not!

If this is correct, and not disinformation, it would answer my small mob's question as to how the Israelis were able to detect, locate and neutralize in such a short time, a target over 600 flight miles away. Operation Orchard was certainly a fine example of the Israel's intelligence service capabilities - second to none! :o

Nice to know the Syrians are

by Grant on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:38pm

Nice to know the Syrians are at least as bad at computer security as we reportedly are.

That's embarrassing

by afr114 on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:28am

I feel like the entire arab world is always being made fools by Israel. How is it possible, that there are always daring raids on high-level arab officals yet the best the arabs ever seem to do is kill innocent people.

How are they ever a real threat?

It's Nice to know...

by Da Buffalo Amon... on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:46pm

...That only the US and Israel can possess nuclear weapons capable of being deployed in the region.

Only ONE country in the world has actually used them so far, and the OTHER country is, as a national entity... Mentally unbalanced.

On yeah... almost forgot India... Another regional destabilizer and territorial aggressor.

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/heavy-weaponry-seized-another-proof-of-indian-involvement-in-destabilization-of-pakistan/

Thanks for offering more proof that CNAS is simply a neocon mouthpiece of the lowest sort.

Signed,
An American Jew.

What are you talking about?

by afr114 on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 1:30pm

Pakistan has the bomb. Is the region any safer?

You can't deny you have a very strong element of the Middle East that are fundementalist and have very strong religous convictions. Is this really where we want a Nucleur arms race?

We need oil and gas to get to work and to run our economies. The last thing that is needed is for the world's source of energy be destroyed in a nucleur war.

More to the point, ANY nation

by Grant on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:20pm

More to the point, ANY nation having nuclear weapons greatly increases the chances of a nuclear war. Even if we assume that the odds of nuclear weapons being used in war is very slim, if you keep rolling a die enough times you'll eventually lose.