Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, when he destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor 15 years ago, said yesterday, Tuesday, in an interview with the Arab section of the Israeli channel I24NEWS that Israel had estimates that Syria was carrying out a secret project, “but we did not have accurate and confirmed information about this,” he said.
Olmert, who is due to celebrate his 77th birthday on September 30, said that in March 2007 the head of the Mossad showed him about 50 photographs of a nuclear headquarters built in a hidden area in eastern Syria “for the purpose of building a nuclear bomb,” according to we hear on the video screen. Below is the translated interview.
Six months after Israel received information about what Syria called the “al-Kibar compound” in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor, its warplanes took off after midnight on September 6, 2007, attacking the compound “because we wanted to know other details to destroy everything there without starting any war with the Syrians.” (..) We were not going to fight with Syria, otherwise we would have used a different method with the situation and would have sent planes that bombed the area where the nuclear bomb was being made, “as he put it.
Olmert pointed out that classified information was passed on to a small number of individuals, “the US President at the time, George W. Bush, and the leaders of US intelligence, only they knew that we would demolish this place (…) and after that we were ready for the bombing, even if Syria was created. Having fired one rocket at Israeli territory, we would have bombed hundreds of rockets in response, but we later learned that Bashar al-Assad does not want to respond or attack Israel, and this shows his wisdom, ”in his opinion.
Elite Secret Squad Shaldaga
Yesterday, Tuesday, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the destruction of Syria’s nuclear program by its aircraft, the Israeli army released an internal document in which the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in 2002 that Syria might attempt to launch a military nuclear program. The document contained phrases, the most important of which was “Recently it became known that secret projects that we did not know about are being carried out (or at least are being implemented) within the framework of the Syrian Atomic Energy Authority.” Five years earlier, a reactor was struck at a secret location in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria, which Israel did not announce until 2018 that it was he who was behind its destruction.
As for the raid on Syrian nuclear facilities, the video above shows its real footage, the information available about it, according to Al-Arabiya.net became known from the biography of the special unit he conducted, was carried out on 4 aircraft belonging to a special squadron of the elite secret unit “Shaldag”, which specializes in the Israeli Air Force, conducted strike and reconnaissance activities even behind enemy lines, which happened some time before the opening of a special school for all units as part of his own squadron, according to Israeli media reports.
An F-15I Ra’am and a second US-made F-16I Soufa similar to it were involved in the raid on the Deir ez-Zor nuclear facility, in addition to a helicopter, possibly for rescue in case the pilot had to make an emergency landing. The aircraft, equipped with the ELINT omnibus system, also shared intelligence by detecting and intercepting signals related to telecommunications or electrical signals,” Al Ward said as a technician. It is not certain that 10 North Koreans were killed in the raid.
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, when he destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor 15 years ago, said yesterday, Tuesday, in an interview with the Arab section of the Israeli channel I24NEWS that Israel had estimates that Syria was carrying out a secret project, “but we did not have accurate and confirmed information about this,” he said.
Olmert, who is due to celebrate his 77th birthday on September 30, said that in March 2007 the head of the Mossad showed him about 50 photographs of a nuclear headquarters built in a hidden area in eastern Syria “for the purpose of building a nuclear bomb,” according to we hear on the video screen. Below is the translated interview.
Six months after Israel received information about what Syria called the “al-Kibar compound” in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor, its warplanes took off after midnight on September 6, 2007, attacking the compound “because we wanted to know other details to destroy everything there without starting any war with the Syrians.” (..) We were not going to fight with Syria, otherwise we would have used a different method with the situation and would have sent planes that bombed the area where the nuclear bomb was being made, “as he put it.
Olmert pointed out that classified information was passed on to a small number of individuals, “the US President at the time, George W. Bush, and the leaders of US intelligence, only they knew that we would demolish this place (…) and after that we were ready for the bombing, even if Syria was created. Having fired one rocket at Israeli territory, we would have bombed hundreds of rockets in response, but we later learned that Bashar al-Assad does not want to respond or attack Israel, and this shows his wisdom, ”in his opinion.
Elite Secret Squad Shaldaga
Yesterday, Tuesday, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the destruction of Syria’s nuclear program by its aircraft, the Israeli army released an internal document in which the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in 2002 that Syria might attempt to launch a military nuclear program. The document contained phrases, the most important of which was “Recently it became known that secret projects that we did not know about are being carried out (or at least are being implemented) within the framework of the Syrian Atomic Energy Authority.” Five years earlier, a reactor was struck at a secret location in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria, which Israel did not announce until 2018 that it was he who was behind its destruction.
As for the raid on Syrian nuclear facilities, the video above shows its real footage, the information available about it, according to Al-Arabiya.net became known from the biography of the special unit he conducted, was carried out on 4 aircraft belonging to a special squadron of the elite secret unit “Shaldag”, which specializes in the Israeli Air Force, conducted strike and reconnaissance activities even behind enemy lines, which happened some time before the opening of a special school for all units as part of his own squadron, according to Israeli media reports.
An F-15I Ra’am and a second US-made F-16I Soufa similar to it were involved in the raid on the Deir ez-Zor nuclear facility, in addition to a helicopter, possibly for rescue in case the pilot had to make an emergency landing. The aircraft, equipped with the ELINT omnibus system, also shared intelligence by detecting and intercepting signals related to telecommunications or electrical signals,” Al Ward said as a technician. It is not certain that 10 North Koreans were killed in the raid.