I may be spending too much time with theology, but today's Times' story (somewhat buried inside) came as a complete surprise. Here's the opening:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 The Sept. 6 attack by Israeli warplanes inside SyriaNorth Korea struck what Israeli intelligence believes was a nuclear-related facility that was helping to equip, according to current and former American and Israeli officials.

I presume those of you more current with other news sources may have heard of it. There wasn't much on the brief TV news that I caught tonight. I would be interested in any further information/reflections -- if you can manage the new spam-resistant comment process.

UPDATE:

There is an op-ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal that concludes:

More questions will no doubt be raised about the operational details of the raid (some sources claim there were actually two raids, one of them diversionary), as well as fresh theories about what the Israelis were after and whether they got it. The only people that can provide real answers are in Jerusalem and Damascus, and for the most part they are preserving an abnormal silence. In the Middle East, that only happens when the interests of prudence and the demands of shame happen to coincide. Could we have just lived through a partial reprise of the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor? On current evidence, it is the least unlikely possibility.

Today's Boston Globe (Wednesday) takes a stand (sorta):
A strange air raid in Syria

September 19, 2007

NEAR DAWN on Sept. 6, the Israeli Air Forceconducted a raid in northern Syria. It is still not clear what theIsraelis hit or what they hoped to accomplish. What should be clear isthat the lands from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf have becomeextraordinarily volatile, and there could hardly be a worse time forSyria to be provoking Israel or for Israel to be provoking Syria.