Syria planned to supply Iran with nuclear fuel, Israel says  ·
Strategic expert says idea was to share plutonium · Speculation
grows over possible attack  Israel believes that Syria was
planning to supply Iran with spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing
into weapons-grade plutonium from the site it bombed last
September, and which is currently being inspected by the UN's
nuclear watchdog.  The claim from an adviser to Israel's
national security council, came yesterday as speculation mounts
about a possible Israeli attack on Iran. The Israeli government
officially backs UN sanctions to force Tehran to halt its
uranium enrichment but has little faith they will succeed.
Details about the alleged Syrian reactor and the Israeli raid
remain shrouded in secrecy. Syria denies it has or had a covert
nuclear weapons programme and insists the Israelis hit an
ordinary military structure being built at al-Kibar, in the
country's north-eastern desert.  The US claimed in April that
Syria had almost completed the plant with th