JONATHAN COOK: The promotion of the bogus story of a nuclear reactor by
Israel and key figures in the Bush administration was designed to
provide the pretext for an attack on
Assad. That, it was hoped, would bring an end to his presidency and drag
into the fray the main target – Iran. The Syrian “nuclear reactor” was
supposed to be a re-run of the WMD deception, used in 2003 to oust
another enemy of the US and Israel’s – Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
