Bush: Israel Asked Me to Bomb Syria

Former US President George W. Bush says Israel had asked him to bomb an alleged nuclear site in Syria in 2007, but he balked at the request due to lack of justification.

In his memoir, “Decision Points,” to hit bookshelves on Tuesday, Bush revealed that he obtained an intelligence report about a “suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria”, which closely resembled a nuclear facility at Yongbyon in North Korea, the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.

Afterwards, he telephoned the then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discuss what decision should be made in dealing with the allegations that the facility was aimed at developing nuclear weapons, an accusation flatly rejected by Syrian officials at that time.'

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