Israeli and American spy satellites had detected the mysterious structure during earlier scans of Syria, but derived no special significance to it. A trove of downloaded photos detailed a box-like building being constructed on the Euphrates River in eastern Syria. The Israeli government was shocked by what Mossad found on Othman’s laptop. ![]() The Israelis hacked the Syrian’s personal computer after he left his hotel for meetings in the Austrian capital. Othman was visiting Vienna that winter to attend meetings of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Mossad sought to learn more about his secretive activities. At the time, Mossad was running surveillance on the director general of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission, a pudgy, bespectacled bureaucrat named Ibrahim Othman. ![]() It was largely by chance that Israel scored one of its greatest ever intelligence coups in 2007. Whenever nuclear weapons technology appears in the hands of Israel’s enemies, Pyongyang is usually involved.
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