More on the Israeli airstike on Syria

Just a different version from somewhere else.

In attacking Dair el Zor in Syria on Sept. 6, the Israeli air force wasn't targeting a nuclear site but rather one of the main arms depots in the country.

Dair el Zor houses a huge underground base where the Syrian army stores the long and medium-range missiles it mostly buys from Iran and North Korea. The attack by the Israeli air force coincided with the arrival of a stock of parts for Syria's 200 Scud B and 60 Scud C weapons....

Damascus immediately appealed to several Palestinian groups with strong ties to Syria to retaliate. But Hamas, whose strategy chief Khaled Meshal lives in exile in Syria, refused to act. That was also the case of Hezbollah, which sent its political adviser, Hussein Khalil, to Damascus to signify the movement's reluctance to strike back at Israel.

I don't know the original source, "Intelligence Online," but this seems to jibe with the more realist interpretations rather than the crazy and unfounded nuclear claims.

I'm probably going to keep talking about this until I figure out what went on.

UPDATE: (ABC) "The September Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear site in Syria had been in the works for months, ABC News has learned, and was delayed only at the strong urging of the United States....

A senior U.S. official said the Israelis planned to strike during the week of July 14."

(This story repeats the nuclear assertion.)