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Report: Israeli Jets Destroyed Syrian Nuclear Plant Last Month
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by urbano411 | October 13, 2007 at 08:37 pm
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An Israeli airstrike on Syria last month targeted a partially built nuclear reactor that was years away from completion, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing U.S. and foreign officials.The report said President Bush's administration had intense discussions with the Israeli government before the strike and U.S. officials were divided over whether it would be premature.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has said Israel bombed an "unused military building" in the Sept. 6 raid. Israel has been extremely secretive about the affair. It only recently relaxed censorship to allow Israel-based journalists to report that Israeli aircraft attacked a military target deep inside Syria.
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at 13:30 on October 14th, 2007
I too saw the article in the NYT and what I found surprising was the editorial decision to place a story based on an "judgment from an analyst" on the front page above the fold. The first line of the article reads
Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports. See here
In my opinion, a judgment from an unnamed analyst (which essentially means someones opinion based on available information) on such a serious matter does not merit front page above the fold without proper contextualization of said judgment.