Muhammad Suleiman salutes during a ceremony in Jounieh, Lebanon, Oct. So the final mission of Mossad was to assassinate the mastermind behind it, general Muhammad Suleiman. The Mossad told their Prime Minister that Syria will be able to construct a fully operational Nuclear Reactor if this man is alive. He was the main man behind the utmost secrecy of developing Nuclear weapons. Now the only stuff that bothered Meir Dagan was, How did Syria manage to build the nuclear with utmost secrecy! After a lot of research, the Mossad found that the main man behind this success is Syrian General Mohammed Suleiman.
The seven Squadron jets then enters the Syrian airspace and with no time detects the Al-Kibar reactor and destroys it with 1.5 tons explosives and the signal sound “Arizona” reaches Tel Aviv which is the code word for Mission Accomplished in Israeli military language. The Mossad hacked the Syrian Air defense system so that no Israeli fighter planes are captured. For this operation, they used the famous and experienced fighter jets (same jets used to destroy Iraqi nuclear reactor during Saddam Hussein’s era) of the Israeli Air Force, The 69 “Hammers” Squadron. With no option remaining they have to destroy the Syrian Nuclear Reactor. Now after getting to know that the Syrian Reactor is not fully operational, The Mossad was left with the only option, “Either Do or Die”. Sayeret Matkal operators were involved in now-famous Operation Orchard (Photo: IDF) This was sent to the Israeli nuclear testing center and was fortunately NOT fully operational. The mission of getting water and soil samples outside the Syrian reactor was successful by Israeli commandos. The Sayeret Matkal commandos used three Sikorsky CH-53 chopper which is capable of flying at very low altitude and is certainly noiseless. The second phase of Operation Orchard began when Mossad ordered the Sayeret Matkal to get the water and the soil sample outside the reactor to make sure whether the reactor was destroyable. Sayeret Matkal in Operation OrchardĪfter the discussion, they at any cost wanted to know, was the nuclear reactor fully built and under working condition/Operational? They badly wanted to know this and the first thing that came to their mind was Israel’s Elite black ops Commando unit, the Sayeret Matkal.
Since Syria is one of the countries which vows to remove Israel from the world map, considering this a serious threat, Dagan informed this their then-PM Ehud Olmert. Thus Mossad confirmed the existence of the active Nuclear program in Al-Kibar. They were shocked to see an isolated building and with communication around it. Operation Orchard and KIDON’s involvement: KIDON is considered the most secretive unit within the Israeli Mossad (Photo: Illustration)ĭagan immediately ordered the Israeli space station to take the pictures of Al-Kibar. Mossad was shocked to see the data related to the Nuclear program. This data was immediately sent to the then Mossad Head, Meir Dagan at Tel Aviv. They found his laptop which was completely unprotected! They transferred all the data from his laptop to hard-disk with no time and the honey trap was successful. They hired a female agent and successfully honey-trapped a Syrian scientist and in the meantime, the Mossad operatives managed to unlock his door and entered the room he stayed. The first phase of Operation Orchard began when Mossad intensified its operation in North Korea. When their body was being exported, Mossad saw something inconvincible! The Korean men were wearing Nuclear Shielded suits when they were exporting the dead bodies of Syrian technicians! This made Mossad think something is seriously wrong! Mossad in Operation Orchard An MI6 agent says that Israel was behind this bombing of the train but no proofs were found for the same. In the same year, A train carrying fossil fuel and petrochemical components crashed which resulted in the massive explosion and death of 12 Syrian Nuclear technicians. Later in 2004, The US intelligence, CIA reported multiple calls between DPRK and Syria which gave Mossad sleepless nights.
Aman, the Military Intelligence of Israel found it fishy and reported it to Mossad but unfortunately, they denied it. Assad was on a frequent visit to North Korea. After the leadership of Bashar Al Assad in 2001, the relationship between Syria and North Korea drastically increased.