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TIL In 2001, the Mossad dispatched undercover agents in London to monitor a top Syrian official. On the first day of his visit, one team followed him, while another broke into his hotel room and hacked his laptop. In 2007, Israel would launch a night time airstrike against a Syrian nuclear actor.

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