Israel Quietly Destroys Syrian Nuclear Materials Cache

The Israelis are no strangers to daring military raids when they feel their citizens are threatened. We remember the Osirak raid in Iraq when the Israeli Air Force flew through hundreds of miles of enemy skies to bomb an Iraqi nuclear plant into oblivion, and it looks like they've done it again, this time in Syria:

IT was just after midnight when the 69th Squadron of Israeli F15Is crossed the Syrian coast-line. On the ground, Syria’s formidable air defences went dead. An audacious raid on a Syrian target 50 miles from the Iraqi border was under way.

At a rendezvous point on the ground, a Shaldag air force commando team was waiting to direct their laser beams at the target for the approaching jets. The team had arrived a day earlier, taking up position near a large underground depot. Soon the bunkers were in flames.

Ten days after the jets reached home, their mission was the focus of intense speculation this weekend amid claims that Israel believed it had destroyed a cache of nuclear materials from North Korea.

The raid made relatively few headlines at the time. In fact, it almost sounded like the Air Force crossed into Syria as part of a training exercise rather than an actual military mission.

However, the Israelis mean business when their homes and families are threatened by their neighbors, and it looks like once again they taken a enemies nuclear ambitions and buried them under high explosives.