Israel publishes 15-year-old footage of air-strikes on Syrian nuclear reactor

The Israeli Defense Forces published an internal document from 2002 on Tuesday, in which the Military Intelligence Directorate warned that Syria might be attempting to launch a military nuclear program. The intelligence assessment was compiled five years before Israel struck a secret Syrian nuclear reactor being built in the Deir Ezzor area on September 6, 2007, in a mission known as Operation Orchard. The publication came 15 years after a major airstrike that effectively destroyed Syria’s nuclear program. The attack was reportedly the result of Israeli consultations with the administration of then-US President George W. Bush.