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January 11, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html

U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site

[New York Times] David E. Sanger - President Bush deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialized bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex and told the Israelis that he had authorized new covert action intended to sabotage Iran's effort to develop nuclear weapons, according to senior American and foreign officials. White House officials never conclusively determined whether Israel had decided to go ahead with the strike, but the Bush administration was particularly alarmed by an Israeli request to fly over Iraq to reach Iran's major nuclear complex at Natanz, where the country's only known uranium enrichment plant is located. The White House denied that request outright.

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