The Israeli military released previously classified cockpit footage, photographs and intelligence documents about its Sept. 6, 2007, air strike on the Al-Kubar facility near Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria. It said the reactor was being built with help from North Korea and the facility had been months away from activation. “TOP SECRET”The Israeli military declassified internal “top secret” intelligence reports, in Hebrew, some of them partly redacted. To our assessment [REDACTED] secretive and orderly [REDACTED] for achieving a nuclear weapon.”Israeli intelligence predicted that the suspected reactor “would turn operational by the end of 2007”. Had there been an active reactor there, the Israeli military said, it would have had “severe strategic implications on the entire Middle East as well as Israel and Syria”.

Source: bd News24 March 21, 2018 09:11 UTC