Seymour Hersh: What did Israel bomb in Syria? (video)

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February 04, 2008 CNN Wolf Blitzer

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Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian facility bombed by Israel was not nuclear

by David Edwards & Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Sunday February 3, 2008

After Israel bombed a Syrian military facility last September, the United States and Israel both claimed the target had been a Syrian nuclear facility under construction.

RAW STORY‘s Larisa Alexandrovna was alone at the time in reporting that the actual target was a cache of North Korean No-Dong missiles, dating back to the 1990’s, which Syria was converting for use as chemical warheads.

In a follow-up report, Alexandrovna added that Vice President Dick Cheney was suspected of being behind leaks to the press of misleading claims of a nuclear basis for the incident.

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