{"id":7330,"date":"2008-11-16T00:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:22:46","slug":"mi6-believes-syria-ready-to-break-ties-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/16\/mi6-believes-syria-ready-to-break-ties-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"MI6 Believes Syria Ready to Break Ties With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gordon Thomas
\nSpecial to The Epoch<\/span> Times<\/span><\/p>\n

Nov 14, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

A Shavit rocket carrying the Ofek 7 satellite is launched in June 2007 in Palmachim, Israel. The new satellite will be able to keep track of Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London\u2014MI6 has established that secret backroom meetings at the Mediterranean Nations summit in Paris early in July could lead to a dramatic shift of power in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

At the meetings attended by Syrian, Spanish, Italian and Israeli intelligence chiefs, it emerged that plans for an attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities will fail to destroy them because no Western intelligence service\u2013including Mossad\u2013 knows where every facility is located.<\/p>\n

Gaps in the intelligence on the precise location and vulnerability of the Iranian nuclear complexes emerged during the outside-of-conference meetings between the intelligence chiefs.<\/p>\n

At the end of one meeting, Alon Liel, a former director of Israel\u2019s foreign ministry, confirmed Israel had been engaged in \u201clow-key second-track discussions for many months\u201d with Syria.<\/p>\n

Key to the progress of those talks was whether Syria was ready to break its close ties with Iran in return for the U.S. giving Damascus financial and military backing.<\/p>\n

Liel made it clear that any deal with Syria would require its ending support for military groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah\u2013both backed by Iran.<\/p>\n

It was also made clear that any deal with Syria would probably not come until there was a new president in the White House.<\/p>\n

An indication of how far the backroom meetings had progressed came from the Turkish foreign minister, Ali Babacan, who said there had been \u201creal progress in formal talks between Tel Aviv and Damascus\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and his foreign minister, Tzipi Livni\u2013herself a former Mossad officer\u2013sat alongside their Syrian counterparts, President Assad and his foreign minister, Walid al-Muallim.<\/p>\n

Publicly, Olmert acknowledged that the time was \u201cfast approaching for direct talks\u201d.<\/p>\n

What prompted this dramatic change between two old enemies was that at the backroom meetings the intelligence chiefs learned for the first time precise details of the raid in September last year on Syria\u2019s factory processing weapons grade plutonium.<\/p>\n

The hitherto untold story of that raid is as dramatic as any of Israel\u2019s previous daring and successful military strikes.<\/p>\n

Israeli agent<\/h3>\n

It began on September 3, 2007, when the early morning sun caught the rust-stained hull of a 1,700-ton cargo ship as it slowly steamed into the busy Mediterranean port of Tartous in Syria.\u00a0 From its mast flew the flag of South Korea and the stern plate identified the al-Hamed as being registered in Inchon, one of the country\u2019s major ports.<\/p>\n

Watching the ship manoeuvring into its berth from a distance was a man with the swarthy skin of a Kurd or one of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.\u00a0 He was fluent in both their languages as well as some of the dialects of Afghanistan.\u00a0 He was, in fact, a Turkish-born Jew who had eschewed the life of a carpet seller in the family business in Istanbul to go to Israel, serve in its army as a translator and finally achieve his life\u2019s ambition to work in Mossad.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, he was recognised as one of its most brilliant operatives.\u00a0 In that time, he had operated in a dozen countries under as many aliases, using his linguistic skills and chameleon-like characteristics to observe and be absorbed into whichever community he had been sent.<\/p>\n

Now, for the moment, he was code-named Kamal with a perfectly faked Iranian passport in his pocket.\u00a0 Mossad\u2019s chief, Meir Dagan, had stressed to him the importance of his mission: to confirm the role of al-Hamed in the dangerous relationship which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had formed with North Korea.<\/p>\n

Kamal had known before he left Tel Aviv that the ship had sailed from Nampo, a North Korean port in the high security area south of the capital, Pyongyang.\u00a0 A NSA satellite image had shown it steaming out into the Yellow Sea on a journey which had taken it across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, up the Atlantic and through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and finally into Tartous harbour.<\/p>\n

At some stage of its voyage, it had re-flagged itself at sea and the crew had painted on the stern plate the port of registration as Inchon.\u00a0 The newness of their work was still apparent against the drab grey of the rest of the hull.<\/p>\n

Through a contact in the Tartous harbourmaster\u2019s office, he had managed to check the al Hamed\u2019s manifest and all day had watched trucks being loaded with the cement it listed.\u00a0 Then, as the sun began to set, military trucks arrived at the dockside and from the ship\u2019s hold, cranes lifted crates covered in heavy tarpaulin which soldiers guided into the trucks.\u00a0 Using a high resolution camera no bigger than the palm of his hand, Kamal photographed the transfer.\u00a0 When he had finished, he pressed a button on the camera to transmit the images to a receiving station inside the Israeli border with Lebanon.\u00a0 In an hour, they were in Mossad headquarters.<\/p>\n

Kamal knew then his trip had achieved all Meir Dagan had hoped.\u00a0 Though he could not see inside the crates, the spy intuitively knew the steel-cased containers were holding weapons-grade plutonium, the element which had fuelled the American atomic attack that destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.\u00a0 In his mission briefing, Kamal had been told by Professor Uzi Even, who had helped to create Israel\u2019s own nuclear facility at Dimona, that the plutonium would, in its raw form, be easily transported as nuggets in lead protective drums, and the shaping and casting of the material would be done in Syria.<\/p>\n

Now, on that warm September day almost fifty-two years after Nagasaki had been destroyed, sufficient plutonium had been delivered to Syria to devastate an entire country, its neighbour, Israel.<\/p>\n

Intelligence briefing<\/h3>\n

Shortly before noon on September 4, 2007, a number of cars drove past the concert hall of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv and entered the heavily guarded headquarters of Major General Eliezer Shkedy, the country\u2019s air force commander.\u00a0 As a fighter pilot he had won a deserved reputation for daredevil tactics coupled with a cool analytical mind.\u00a0 His speciality had been flying dangerously close to the ground, manoeuvring past peaks and rocky outcrops, then hurtling skywards to ten thousand feet, nearing the speed of sound, before diving on the target, his weapons system switched on, his eyes flitting between the coordinates projected on his hood screen to the bombsight and the target.\u00a0 Weapons released, he would turn radically, the screech from the strain on the airframe like a banshee wail, and he would once more hurtle skywards.\u00a0 From dive attack to his second climb would take him only seconds.<\/p>\n

For the past week Shkedy had prepared for an unprecedented operation which would require those tactics to be carried out by pilots he had hand-picked because their flying skills matched his own.\u00a0 But they would be flying not the F-16 fighter plane he had once commanded, but Israel\u2019s latest jet, the F-151.\u00a0 Flying at almost twice the speed of sound and capable of delivering a 500-pound bunker-busting bomb, it was the most formidable fighter plane in the Israeli air force.<\/p>\n

For weeks the pilots had practised the flesh-flattening G-force of right-angle turns, diving and evading, to hit a small circle, the IP, aiming point, carrying out bombing runs at an angled dive of thirty degrees.\u00a0 They had practised all this in the pitch black of night in the Negev Desert.\u00a0 At first many of the dummy bombs had fallen wide of the IP, but soon they were landing inside, a number scoring the required bullseye.<\/p>\n

Shkedy called them \u201cmy Top Guns\u201d\u2013 though they were far removed from the Hollywood version of Top Gun pilots.\u00a0 His fliers were sober-sided, led quiet lives, rarely partied and had trained day and night for when they would finally be given the order to fly tactical strikes against Iran.\u00a0 Those attacks, they had been told, would take place at dawn or dusk.\u00a0 But all they knew so far about the mission they were spending weeks training for, was that it would take place in the dead of night.\u00a0 No one had yet told them when or where and they were content it should remain so.\u00a0 Curiosity was not one of their traits.<\/p>\n

While F-151 twin afterburners glowed over the desolate night landscape and the pilots dropped their dummy bombs which exploded white phosphorous smoke on the ground\u2019s IP to determine the accuracy of the drops, in Shkedy\u2019s Tel Aviv complex his staff studied the approach to the target and discussed the precautions each F-151 must take from the moment its pilot pressed the red button on the control stick to release his bomb.<\/p>\n

The time they would spend over the actual target, TOT, would have to be between two and four seconds.\u00a0 In that period with its bomb released, an F-151 would sink dangerously towards the ground, giving the pilot a second to fire his afterburner to climb and avoid the \u201cfrag pattern\u201d, the deadly metal fragments of spent explosive which would follow the detonation.\u00a0 A bomb\u2019s shrapnel would rise to three thousand feet in seven seconds and unless the aircraft was clear of the target area, it could be blown up and other pilots already at various stages of their bomb runs would fly into a curtain of lethal fragments which could destroy them.\u00a0 To avoid this, each pilot would have to endure body-crushing pressure of eight Gs while negotiating a radical ninety-degree turn away from the IP after bombing and climb to thirty thousand feet from the target zone to avoid ground missiles.<\/p>\n

To calculate the precise distance from take-off to target and the exact angle for the attack, the planners pored over computer graphs, satellite images and physics tables to check and re-check figures.\u00a0 The targeters calculated that because the bombs would pierce the target roof before exploding inside, the roof would momentarily serve as a shield, reducing the frag pattern by between thirty and forty percent.\u00a0 To help further protect the lead aircraft over the target, it would have its laser-guided bomb fitted with a delay fuse, providing a precious two-seconds lead time before the detonation.<\/p>\n

Given the distance to the target, it was clear the F-151s would each have to carry two external fuel tanks, one under each wing.\u00a0 Filled with five hundred gallons of fuel, each tank added three thousand pounds to the aircraft weight.\u00a0 That required further complex calculations to be made: the exact point at which the bombing dive would start and the altitude at which the ordnance would be dropped.<\/p>\n

In late August, while the al-Hamed was entering the Straits of Gibraltar, General Shkedy flew to the base of 69th Squadron in the Negev; the squadron was the Air Force\u2019s frontline air assault force trained to attack Iran.\u00a0 Waiting for Shkedy in the airfield briefing room were the five pilots whom he had selected to carry out the raid.\u00a0 With an average age of twenty-six, many came from families who were Holocaust survivors, like Shkedy himself.<\/p>\n

For him the pilots had a kind of nobility to their youth; behind their relaxed and open manner was a steelness.\u00a0 Once before he had flown to speak to them at the start of their special training and had begun by saying they had been selected for an air-to-ground mission, military speak for bombing a ground target.\u00a0 He had looked into their faces, glad to see they showed no emotion.\u00a0 No one had looked at the huge wall map of the Middle East.\u00a0 Nevertheless he anticipated each would be creating in his mind the potential mission profile: a low level flight to the target, then a high level return very possibly into headwinds.\u00a0 In the Middle East the winds are always easterly, blowing in from the Mediterranean.\u00a0 It could be Iran.\u00a0 But they had not asked him then and they did not do so on that late August morning when Shkedy once more met them in the briefing room.<\/p>\n

Standing before a plasma screen, he used a zapper to illuminate it.\u00a0 For the first time the pilots saw the target; a complex deep inside Syria almost one hundred miles northeast of Damascus.\u00a0 He explained there was \u201cgood and sufficient intelligence\u201d to destroy the complex which the Syrians were using to build nuclear bombs.\u00a0 He waited for the flicker of response then continued.<\/p>\n

Under the cover of being an agricultural research centre, the complex was already engaged in extracting uranium from phosphates.\u00a0 Soon it would have weapons-enriched plutonium coming from North Korea.\u00a0 He told them the Israeli satellite Ofek-7, which had been launched only two months before, had been geo-positioned to watch the activities at the complex near the small Syrian city of Dayr az-Zawr.\u00a0 He indicated its position on the screen.\u00a0 No bombs must fall on civilians.<\/p>\n

Shkedy then turned to the route in and out of the target area.\u00a0 The aircraft would fly up along the Syrian coast and enter its airspace at the last moment north at the port town of Samadogi and then follow the border with Turkey.\u00a0 At the point where the River Euphrates began its long journey south into Iraq, the attack force would swing south to the Syrian desert town of ar-Raqqah beyond which they would begin the bombing run.\u00a0 The way out would be a high-altitude straight run between the Syrian towns of Hims and Hamah to the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Over the coast of Lebanon they would turn south and return to base.\u00a0 The total mission time would be 80 minutes.\u00a0 In the event of an emergency, navy rescue launches would be positioned off the Syrian coast.<\/p>\n

He ended the briefing by saying the attack would be in the early hours of the morning and would take place \u201csoon\u201d.\u00a0 For a moment longer the air force commander looked at the small group of pilots.\u00a0 Perhaps sensing their one concern, he added that every step would be taken to ensure Syria\u2019s vaunted air defences would be jammed.\u00a0 He did not say how and no one asked.\u00a0 It was a mark of the trust and respect they had for General Eliezer Shkedy.<\/p>\n

Massive explosion<\/h3>\n

The genesis for the operation was a massive explosion on a North Korean freight train heading for the port of Nampo on April 22, 2004.\u00a0 Mossad agents had learned that in a compartment adjoining a sealed wagon were a dozen Syrian nuclear technicians who had worked in the Iranian nuclear programme at Natanz, near Tehran, and had arrived in North Korea to collect the fissionable material stored in the wagon.<\/p>\n

Their bodies were flown home in lead-encased coffins aboard a Syrian military plane.\u00a0 By then a wide area around the crash site had been cordoned off and scores of North Korean soldiers in anti-contamination suits had spent days recovering wreckage and spraying the entire area.\u00a0 Mossad analysts suspected they were recovering some of the estimated fifty-five kilos of weapons-grade plutonium North Korea possessed.\u00a0 Since the crash\u2013its cause never established\u2013the intelligence service had tracked Syrian military officers and scientists on a dozen trips to Pyongyang where they met with high-ranking officials in the regime.\u00a0 The most recent meeting was shortly before the al-Hamed had left Nampo.<\/p>\n

It was Kamal\u2019s report and photographic evidence of the arrival and unloading of the ship that was the focus of the meeting in General Shkedy\u2019s headquarters on September 4, 2007.\u00a0 The air force commander\u2019s briefing room was dominated by large plasma screens on two walls.\u00a0 One contained a blow-up of the ship and the covered crates being off-loaded and driven away.\u00a0 A second screen showed the town of Dayr az-Zawr.\u00a0 A third screen displayed a satellite image of a large square building surrounded by several smaller ones and a security fence.\u00a0 The area was identified by the word: \u201cTarget\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sunburst<\/h3>\n

Sat around the conference table with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were the other key players in the operation, codenamed \u201cSunburst\u201d.\u00a0 For Olmert it was further proof of his powers of survival.\u00a0 A year ago he had been close to being driven out of office after the debacle of the war in Lebanon when he was vilified as the most incompetent leader Israel had ever had.<\/p>\n

He had fought back, appointing Ehud Barak as his new defence minister and Tzipi Livni as foreign minister.\u00a0 Both now flanked him at the table giving Olmert the political support he needed for Sunburst.\u00a0 Beside them sat Benjamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister and now leader of the Likud Party, having taken over from the stricken Aerial Sharon.\u00a0 Like Barak, Netanyahu was experienced in the complexities of \u201cblack\u201d operations.\u00a0 Barak had been a leader in Sayeret Matkal, Israel\u2019s elite commando force who bore the same motto as Britain\u2019s SAS: \u201cWho Dares Wins\u201d.\u00a0 Netanyahu had approved several Mossad missions while in office.<\/p>\n

The lynchpin of Sunburst was Meir Dagan.\u00a0 Early in the summer, he had presented Olmert with evidence of what he called \u201cthe nuclear connection\u201d between Syria and North Korea that had reached a dangerous level.\u00a0 Syria already possessed sixty Scud-C missiles, which it had bought from North Korea, and on August 14, when the freighter al-Hamed was already bound for Syria, North Korea\u2019s foreign trade minister, Rim Kyong Man, was in Damascus to sign a protocol on \u201cco-operation and trade in science and technology\u201d.\u00a0 Afterwards the minister had flown to Tehran, furthering the triangular relationship between North Korea, Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n

Mossad\u2019s analysts had concluded that Syria was not only a conduit for the transport to Iran of an estimated \u00a350 million ($74million) of missiles, but also could serve as \u201ca hideout\u201d for North Korea\u2019s own nuclear weapons, particularly its plutonium, while the regime continued to promise it would give up its nuclear programme in exchange for the massive security guarantees and financial aid the West had promised.<\/p>\n

Until recently, Meir Dagan had remained uncertain whether this was the case.\u00a0 Now, the latest intelligence from his agents in the country showed that Syria was determined to create its own nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The meeting had been called to discuss the matter.\u00a0 Dagan began by saying the crates unloaded from the al-Hamed had been tracked by Israel\u2019s satellite to the complex.\u00a0 Dagan continued the meeting with his usual succinct analysis.\u00a0 The building was now almost certainly to be where the crates had been delivered.\u00a0 Inside its main structure was the machinery to cast the warheads for housing the weaponised plutonium.\u00a0 Scientists at Dimona had concluded that a small quantity of polonium and beryllium would be used to create the chain reaction for the plutonium, after the pellets were machined in \u201cglove boxes\u201d, sealed containers accessed only by special laboratory gloves to protect the technicians at the site.\u00a0 Dagan had concluded with a final warning: the longer Israel waited to destroy the site, the closer the technicians in the building would come to creating their weapons.<\/p>\n

Within minutes the decision was taken to eliminate the complex.<\/p>\n

In the late evening of September 5, 2007, Israeli commandos from the Sayeret Matkal dressed in Syrian army uniform, crossed into Syria over its northern border with Iraq.\u00a0 They were equipped with a laser guidance system designed to guide aircraft on to the target.\u00a0 With them were specialists from the Israeli Defence Force. In their backpacks was equipment linked to IDF electronic counter-measure jamming technology designed to disrupt Syria\u2019s formidable air defences.\u00a0 When they were forty miles from the target the men hid and waited.<\/p>\n

At their airfield in the Negev, the five mission pilots sat down to a large dinner; even though they were not hungry, they knew they would need all the nutrients for the sheer physical energy and mental skills they would expend in the coming hours.\u00a0 Afterwards they went to the briefing room where Shkedy was waiting with other senior officers.\u00a0 The briefing officer once more ran through the mission procedure: radio frequencies, radio silence protocols and individual call signs.<\/p>\n

Take-off time would be at 23.59 with twenty seconds separating each plane.\u00a0 There would be a dogleg out to sea at 500 knots, over eight miles a minute, then, with Haifa to their right, they would drop to sea level and head up the coast of Lebanon, past Beirut and continue into Syrian airspace.\u00a0 From there it was on to the IP.<\/p>\n

When the officer had ended, Shkedy walked to the front of the room and paused to look at each pilot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou all know the importance of your target.\u00a0 It must be destroyed at all costs.\u00a0 This is the most important mission any of you have taken or probably will ever take.\u00a0 Every step has been taken to protect you.\u00a0 But if anything does happen, we will do everything to rescue you.\u00a0 That I promise you.\u00a0 But I am confident that surprise is on our side.\u00a0 You will be in and out before the Syrians realise what has happened\u201d, said General Shkedy.<\/p>\n

No one in the room doubted him.\u00a0 They all knew the mission was a pivotal point in the protection of Israel.\u00a0 The silence was broken by Shkedy\u2019s final words: \u201cGod be with you!\u201d\u00a0 Then he stepped forward and shook the hand of each pilot.<\/p>\n

The mission<\/h3>\n

By eleven-forty-five in the evening, the ordnance technicians had checked the bombs, ensuring each was securely positioned in its release clip beneath the wings of each F-151.\u00a0 After his check, the technician removed the metal safety pin from each bomb.<\/p>\n

A minute later, the runway crew had reported the strip was clear of small stones or any other obstruction that could be sucked into the engine and destroy it.<\/p>\n

From the twin tailpipes of the first aircraft, followed by the others, came the scalding heat from the afterburners.<\/p>\n

In each cockpit the pilots had gone through the same drill: activating the computerised checks of the navigation, mechanical, communications and finally the firing systems.<\/p>\n

Each pilot wore two suits: his flight suit and, over it, the G-suit, a torso harness, survival gear and a helmet.\u00a0 Clipped to each harness was a small gadget that would send a homing-signal if he was forced to abandon the mission.<\/p>\n

At one minute to midnight the first F-151, with a roar and a plume of exhaust marking its progress, sped down the runway.\u00a0 Shortly after midnight the last of the planes had retracted its wheels.\u00a0 \u2018Sunburst\u2019 had begun.<\/p>\n

The mission was a total success. Satellite images showed the complete destruction of the complex and, next day, Syrian bulldozers covering the blitzed area with earth to avoid the spread of radiation.\u00a0 It would be ten days before the country\u2019s vice-president, Farouk al-Sharaa, would only say: \u201cOur military and political echelon is looking into the matter\u201d.\u00a0 In Tel Aviv Ehud Olmert, not quite able to conceal his smile, said: \u201cYou will understand we naturally cannot always show the public our cards\u201d.<\/p>\n

But to play them, in the early hours of the morning of September 6, 2007, those pilots had carried out one of the most daring air strikes ever.<\/p>\n

In January 2008, three days after President Bush had left Israel, where he had been privately briefed on the mission, the Israeli Defence Force released a satellite image that showed Syria had commenced rebuilding the destroyed site.<\/p>\n

Gordon Thomas is the author of a new edition of Gideon\u2019s Spies: The Inside Story of Israel\u2019s Legendary Secret Service, The Mossad, by JR Books of London and available on Amazon Books.<\/em><\/p>\n

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