[Peace-discuss] more on the Israeli attack on Syria, from Aviation Week via theregister.co.uk

[Stuart Levy]

See this:

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/israel_air_raid_syria_hack_network_vuln_intrusion/


for example:

    The latest revelations are made by well-connected Aviation Week
    journalists. Electronic-warfare correspondent David Fulghum says
    that US intelligence and military personnel "provided advice" to the
    Israelis regarding methods of breaking into the Syrian air-defence
    network.

    Aviation Week's sources apparently said that the first move in the
    raid was a combined bombing and electronic attack on a Syrian radar
    site near the Turkish border, which allowed Israeli warplanes to fly
    in undetected. It seems that there was also some use of old-school
    brute force jamming.

    So far, so conventional. However, Fulghum's unidentified Pentagon
    contacts also said that after the Israelis crossed into Syrian
    airspace, US sensors in the region noted that the whole Syrian radar
    system "went off the air" for some time while the main raid on the
    Dayr as-Zawr facility (believed to have been a nuclear plant of some
    kind) went ahead.

    Presumably this means that Syrian long-range search radars across the
    country ceased to transmit. There is no suggestion that the radars
    were physically destroyed, which is believable as this would have
    called for strikes on multiple locations, which would probably have
    become known by now.

Aviation Week "promises more details next week".
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