CIA image showing alleged covert nuclear reactor under construction, near Al Kibar, in the eastern desert of SyriaBush 'Considered' Bombing Syria -- National Post
In memoir to be released soon, former US president says Israel wanted him to bomb suspected Syrian nuclear facility.
George Bush contemplated ordering a US military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel's request in 2007, the former US president has reminisced in his memor to be published soon.
Israel eventually destroyed the facility, which Syria denied was for developing a nuclear weapons.
In his memoir, "Decision Points", to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Bush says that he received an intelligence report about a "suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria" that looked similar to a nuclear facility at Yongbyon, North Korea.
Shortly afterward, he spoke by phone with Ehud Olmert, then the Israeli prime minister.
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