Good for them: Israel hacked Syrian nuke info

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, November 2, 2009 - 6:44 PM Share

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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EXPLORE:MIDDLE EAST, INTELLIGENCE, ISRAEL/PALESTINE, NUKES

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TYRTAIOS

7:49 PM ET

November 2, 2009

And that's what I'm talk'en

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

GRANT

10:38 PM ET

November 2, 2009

Nice to know the Syrians are

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

AFR114

3:28 PM ET

November 3, 2009

That's embarrassing

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?

DA BUFFALO AMONGST WOLVES

5:46 PM ET

November 3, 2009

It's Nice to know...

...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.

AFR114

6:30 PM ET

November 3, 2009

What are you talking about?

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.

GRANT

10:20 PM ET

November 5, 2009

More to the point, ANY nation

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.