{"id":198830,"date":"2007-10-07T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/ok-maybe-i-was-wrong-about-the-nature-of-the-israeli-airstrike-on-syria\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:52:00","slug":"ok-maybe-i-was-wrong-about-the-nature-of-the-israeli-airstrike-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/ok-maybe-i-was-wrong-about-the-nature-of-the-israeli-airstrike-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Maybe I Was Wrong About the Nature of the Israeli Airstrike on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/story?id=3695754&amp;page=1\">this ABC News report<\/a>, the US requested, and got, a delay in the attack because they were concerned about the accuracy of the Israeli intelligence showing an ambitious nuclear facility, and possible repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>I may have been wrong in my previous assessment that it was not a nuclear facility, but as the sources could for the ABC story could be political appointees, I still lean against it being a nuclear facility.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, Syria does not have the infrastructure to even begin any sort of nuclear weapons development.<\/p>\n<p>As to the sourcing, it could be some mid-level intelligence professionals, or some politically appointed yahoo like John Bolton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this ABC News report, the US requested, and got, a delay in the attack because they were concerned about the accuracy of the Israeli intelligence showing an ambitious nuclear facility, and possible repercussions. I may have been wrong in my previous assessment that it was not a nuclear facility, but as the sources &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1159,986,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}