Newt Gingrich: If it weren't for Israel, ISIS might have armed itself with nukes | Opinion
Newt Gingrich On 5/17/19
In 2014, during the Syrian civil war, ISIS occupied a site in the Syrian desert which once held a nuclear weapons facility. It reportedly had been built for the Syrians with North Korean help. If that reactor had been there, ISIS might have had a capability to inflict terrifyingly massive casualties.
However, seven years earlier, in September 2007, Israel launched a secret air attack against this obscure site in the Syrian desert called Deir es-Zoir. The reactor building was called al-Kibar.
Without that Israeli destruction of this Syrian-North Korean project, the world possibly would have had to deal with a nuclear armed ISIS and become a much more dangerous place.
Read more at: https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-threat-syria-israel-isis-reactor-strike-1428918
He is discussing in a historic context, when Israel bombed the nuclear facility in Syria's desert.Maybe so, maybe so.
This facility was totally hidden..
The key breakthrough came when the head of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission visited Vienna. In an operation worthy of a Silva or Ian Fleming novel, Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, entered his hotel room, downloaded the contents of his laptop, and planted a bug to monitor it.
