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U.S. Electronic Surveillance
Monitored Israeli Attack on Syria, Reports AVIATION WEEK
PRNewswire-USNewsire
Thursday November 22, 2007
The U.S. provided Israel with information about Syrian
air defenses before Israel attacked a suspected nuclear site in
Syria, reports AVIATION WEEK, which broke the story on its website,
AviationWeek.com, today. The complete story will appear in the
November 26 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST).
The U.S. was monitoring the electronic emissions coming from
Syria during Israel's September 6 attack, and while there was
no active American engagement in the operation, military and aerospace
industry officials told AW&ST that advice was provided.
The AW&ST article, reported by Dave Fulghum, Robert Wall
and Amy Butler, also reveals that the main attack, targeting a
suspected nuclear reactor being developed at Dayr az-Zawr, was
preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site at Tall
al-Abuad, near the Turkish border.
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The radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack
and precision bombs to allow the Israeli force to enter and exit
Syrian airspace without being observed. As a result, all of Syria's
air-defense radar system went off the air during the raid, U.S.
intelligence analysts told AW&ST.
"Offensive and defensive network warfare is one of the most
interesting new areas," says Pinchas Buchris, the director
general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. "I can only say
we're following the [network attack] technology with great care.
I doubted this [technology] five years ago. But we did it. Now
everything has changed."
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