{"id":3942,"date":"2007-10-05T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/mystery-achievement\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:16:30","slug":"mystery-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/mystery-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/20\/AR2007092002701.html\">blather<\/a> about how the Israelis hit a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article2461421.ece\">nuclear site<\/a>&#8221; or a site with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article2512380.ece\">nuclear materials<\/a>&#8221; in Syria the other week was really just a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/node\/6359\">hooey<\/a>, but then again you <em>knew<\/em> that. Otherwise they wouldn&#8217;t have kept it such a Deep Dark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OnTF2zq75jk&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">Secret<\/a>, now would they? Surely they would have touted the details to all the world&#8217;s media, as proof that Damascus is deserving of &#8220;regime change.&#8221; Now Laura Rozen, via <em>Intelligence Online<\/em>, provides us with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warandpiece.com\/blogdirs\/006657.html\">real details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In attacking Dair el Zor in Syria on Sept. 6, the Israeli air force wasn&#8217;t targeting a nuclear site but rather one of the main arms depots in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;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&#8217;s 200 Scud B and 60 Scud C weapons.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that blather about how the Israelis hit a &#8220;nuclear site&#8221; or a site with &#8220;nuclear materials&#8221; in Syria the other week was really just a lot of hooey, but then again you knew that. Otherwise they wouldn&#8217;t have kept it such a Deep Dark Secret, now would they? Surely they would have touted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}