After all the polemic surrounding the Israeli strike on Syria (whose most possible cause were some nuclear weapons from North Korea being transferred to Syria, link in Spanish): From BBC:
Israel has confirmed that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military installation last month.
Syria accused Israel at the time but Israeli officials refused to comment, and the Israeli military censor imposed a strict blackout on information.
The censor’s office has now allowed some details to be released.
On Monday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the BBC that a Syrian military construction site was hit in the Israeli air strike on 6 September.
President Assad said the raid demonstrated Israel’s “visceral antipathy towards peace” - and that Syria would retaliate.
Syria and Israel are formally at war. Israeli has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967. Peace talks between them collapsed in 2000.
Mystery remains
In the early hours of 6 September a number of Israeli jets appeared to enter Syrian airspace from the Mediterranean Sea.
Later, unidentified drop tanks, which may have contained fuel from the planes, were found on Turkish soil near the Syrian border, indicating a possible exit route.
Witnesses said the Israeli jets had been engaged by Syrian air defences in Tall al-Abyad, north of Raqqa and near the border with Turkey.
It is still not known why Israel carried out the strike or what exactly was hit.
In it they analyse the probability of a link to NKorea.
The North Koreans are looking to liquidate at least part of their enrichment programme, and perhaps want to offload the centrifuges and so on that they obtained from Pakistan.”
The alleged Israeli incursion happened near Tall al-Abyad
So the Syrians might be “dabbling” with enrichment technology, but this would not represent “a near-term threat”, Mr Samore says.
“There are North Koreans in Syria in connection with missile technology,” he said, but on the nuclear front “we just don’t know”.
One thing he saw as strange, however, was the possible location of the “target” that the Israelis may have hit.
This seems to have been very close to the border with Turkey - an odd place for a potential nuclear research establishment.
We just have to wait…
