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Israel-Syria Conflict Reportedly Split White House

By Robert Siegel, Mike Shuster

Published October 10, 2007 at 1:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

Israel reportedly briefed the Bush administration on the target inside Syria — which Israel hit with an air strike in September — that it believed was part of a budding nuclear program aided by North Korea.

The New York Times reports that the matter split the White House, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney on opposing sides.

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Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

Mike Shuster

Mike Shuster is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR News. He is based at NPR West, in Culver City, CA. When not traveling outside the U.S., Shuster covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim.