OPERATION ORCHARD - 2007 Israeli Airstrike Deep Inside Syria
“Operation Orchard was an Israeli airstrike on a target in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria [Latitude/Longitude: 3542′28″N, 3950′01″E] carried out just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007.
The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) later declared that American intelligence indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a military purpose, though Syria denies this. Preliminary International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) tests came up with no indication to back the claims of the United States or Israel, but a final evaluation justified a continuation of the investigation…”
[This latest info backs up our initial claims. Copy/paste the above Lat/Long into Google Earth, to zoom in on that area.]