There was a cluster of zinc shacks serving as a residence, but there was nothing to guard: no ammunitions depot, no intelligence post, nothing.
The analyst said that Syrian officials vigorously denied the intelligence and said that what the Israelis hit was a storage depot for strategic missiles.
In another sign of lousy postwar planning, they failed to secure the arms depots in Iraq: "In the fall of 2004, U.S. intelligence estimated that at least 4,000 missiles from Iraq's arsenal could not be accounted for..
American officials hope that similar information gathered by American intelligence officers — including the location of Colonel Qaddafi's munitions depots and the clusters of government troops inside towns — might help weaken Libya's military enough to encourage defections within its ranks.
The United States was already sharing intelligence with the French when their warplanes on Sunday struck camps, depots and other militant positions deep inside extensive Islamist-held territory in northern Mali.
The midnight raid against two Taliban leadership compounds north of Kandahar on Thursday uncovered one of the largest ammunition depots to survive the American air campaign undetected by coalition intelligence, military officials said today.
President Vladimir V. Putin today described as "rubbish" American intelligence reports that the Russian military had moved tactical nuclear weapons into a storage depot that serves the Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad.
The Sunday Times reports that one intelligence estimate is that the Libyan government controls only 20 out of 400 arms depots, and that around 3,000 shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles - capable of bringing down civilian airliners - remain missing despite intensive Western efforts to track them down.
They assembled data from meteorological and intelligence reports to support their thesis that American bombs were powerful enough to propel sarin from depots in Muthanna and Falluja high into the atmosphere, where winds whisked it hundreds of miles south to the Saudi border.
The judge who had convicted them had sent letters to the Revolutionary Guard's intelligence office, to the governorate, to the volunteer militia known as the Basij, and to the local bus depot, asking for volunteers to participate in a ceremony at the cemetery.
