JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's former prime minister said Thursday that he can't deny ex-President George W. Bush's claim in a new book that Israel destroyed a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.
It was Ehud Olmert's first public comment on the mysterious September 2007 incident, which happened while he was in office.
At the time, Syria announced that its airspace had been invaded by Israel but said nothing about what had been hit. The Israeli government has remained silent.
In Bush's new memoir, the former president claimed the target was believed to be a Syrian nuclear reactor being built with North Korean assistance.
He said that Israel first asked the U.S. to bomb …
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