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Good for them: Israel hacked Syrian nuke info

Today’s good news is that Israeli agents snuck into a London hotel room and planted software in a Syrian official’s laptop that enabled them to collect information on Syria’s secret nuclear program. This set up the surprise air strike in September 2007 against a nearly completed reactor out in the eastern Syrian desert. phooky/flickr

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Today's good news is that Israeli agents snuck into a London hotel room and planted software in a Syrian official's laptop that enabled them to collect information on Syria's secret nuclear program. This set up the surprise air strike in September 2007 against a nearly completed reactor out in the eastern Syrian desert.

Today’s good news is that Israeli agents snuck into a London hotel room and planted software in a Syrian official’s laptop that enabled them to collect information on Syria’s secret nuclear program. This set up the surprise air strike in September 2007 against a nearly completed reactor out in the eastern Syrian desert.

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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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