"'Foreign partner' helped ID Syria reactor" by Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters | September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - The destruction of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor last year was the result of an intelligence collaboration that included a "foreign partner" who first identified the facility's purpose, General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, said Tuesday.
The reactor at the desert outpost of Al-Kibar was flattened in an air strike on Sept. 6, 2007 that senior US intelligence officials have said was carried out by Israel on its own initiative.
"Our foreign partnerships . . . were critical to the final outcome," Hayden said in a speech for delivery to the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles.
A US intelligence official declined to specify the partner Hayden referred to or to say whether it was Israel.
--more--"How many OTHER THINGS is this SHIT GOVERNMENT not telling us?
