How Did We Miss This Israeli Attack on Syria?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10diplo.html?hp
Did I sleep through this? Israel "pre-emptively" destroyed a facility in Syria that they claim was being used to develop nukes (haven't we heard that one before?)
Man, clearly the Zionists have jumped the shark... note that in this article, Philip Zelikow is cited and quoted as a moderate who thinks this could harm American diplomatic efforts!
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interesting Syrian take on Israeli attack...
I actually cut this out of Webster Tarpley's latest statement sent through MUJCA (kevin Barrett) today. I don't trust Tarpley but this looks like something worth comparing to the NYT story...Â
On September 6, the Syrian News Agency SANA announced that the Israeli Air Force had mounted an incursion into the air space of northern Syria, and had jettisoned drop tanks and bombs along the Syrian-Turkish border. The Turkish Foreign Ministry protested the objects that had fallen on Turkish territory. The Israelis first denied, but later admitted, that this illegal incursion, an ipso facto act of aggressive war, had taken place. Middle East experts estimated that the Israelis had been probing the Syrian and Iranian air defenses, but that they had been driven off by the new and superior Russian air defense systems now fielded by these two countries. This meant that the US-UK-Israeli model of air blitzkrieg was now in crisis, just as the Israeli land blitzkrieg technique had been defeated by Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. To cover up this humiliating defeat, the Israelis later concocted a story that this had been a successful air attack on a nuclear facility operating in Syria with North Korean assistance; this silly tale was then retailed by neocon John Bolton and also by warmonger Democrat Hillary Clinton in a candidates' debate. But any bombing of a nuclear facility would have had to produce a cloud of radioactive nuclear debris, which would have been registered by Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia, China, Japan, or some other state in the region. Since no such reports have ever come to light, it must be assumed that the Israeli story was fabricated in an attempt to cover up the repulse of the Israeli jets.Â