Israel had, of course, been in this position before, seeking US support for a strike—in 1981 when it took out Iraq’s Osirak reactor, and again in 2007 when it bombed the suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.6 Israeli intelligence agents had obtained crucial information about the latter facility in 2006 when they tailed a senior Syrian official to London and installed a Trojan horse on his laptop after he unwisely left it behind in his hotel room one day.
