By Amos Harel, Shmuel Rosner, and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents, and AP   
Tags: U.S., Israel, nuclear reactor  
Israel will maintain its official policy of silence regarding the Israel Air Force strike on a Syrian nuclear facility as the American administration is slated to provide Thursday, for the first time, extensive details about the nature of the compound destroyed by the IAF on September 6.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Congress will hear from the Central Intelligence Agency that the facility destroyed in the Israel Air Force attack was a nuclear reactor for producing plutonium.
Israel, however, does not intend to break the official silence it has maintained on the matter for the past seven months. Security sources told Haaretz on Wednesday night that the government will not go public with new information in the case.
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The Prime Minister's Office declined to comment on the matter Wednesday, and referred Haaretz to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statements last week in his Pesach interview with media outlets, in which he said that "the Syrians know what our position is, and we know what their expectations are."
Thursday's briefings of the Senate and House Intelligence committees, as well as ...   more »