Israel is lying on Scuds: "If it had any evidence, it would have moved to neutralize it..."

Declassified/here

"... Asked whether U.S. government experts believe that Israel made a fuss about the alleged missile shipments—and exaggerated how far the Syrians had gone—in order to send Damascus a message against carrying out the transfer, a senior Obama administration official says simply: "Yes." And Damascus appears to have heeded the warning, the official confirms. Another senior U.S. official cites Israel's September 2007 airstrike against a suspected but uncompleted Syrian nuclear facility. In the opinion of many U.S. experts, the official says, Israel's military would have already taken action to neutralize the threat if there were hard evidence that Hizbullah had obtained Scuds"