That’s according to al Jazeera, the CNN-like television network based in Qatar, via the Jerusalem Post:

The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two strategic US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a nuclear site under construction.

The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes.

The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed.

I took a look at al Jazeera’s English web site but found nothing about this. I know that the JPost has Arab journalists, so I presume that this report was carried on the A-J site in Arabic but not in English.

In other atomic-weapons news, al Jazeera also carries a story that Nazi Germany did in fact develop and test an atomic bomb “at the Ohrdruf military training area - then run as a concentration camp by the Nazi SS .”

The German device probably was a two-tonne cylinder containing enriched uranium. The amount of uranium was too small, meaning the conventional explosives used to trigger the device did not set off a vastly more destructive nuclear chain reaction, Karlsch said.

Witnesses reported a bright flash of light and a column of smoke over the area that day, and residents said they had nausea and nosebleeds for days afterwards, Karlsch says.

One witness said he helped burn heaps of corpses inside the military area the next day. They were hairless and some had blisters and raw, red flesh.

Soil samples that Karlsch had analysed for his book found the presence of radioactive elements not found in nature, such as cesium 137 and cobalt 60, he said.

But historians say this story is bunkum. Gerald Holton, a professor of physics and the history of science at Harvard University, said that any claims of a Nazi test blast “would have to have a lot of documentary evidence behind it.”

That’s the classic newspaper editors’ definition of a story that reports what everyone already knows.