"If people had known how close we came to world war three that day there’d have been mass panic."

Not much was made at the time of Israel bombing something in Syria, and even less has been discussed since then. Here is a recap of the whole thing. An excerpt:

According to American sources, Israeli intelligence tracked a North Korean vessel carrying a cargo of nuclear material labelled ‘cement’ as it travelled halfway across the world. On 3 September the ship docked at the Syrian port of Tartous and the Israelis continued following the cargo as it was transported to the small town of Dayr as Zawr, near the Turkish border in north-eastern Syria.

As the author goes on to detail, it had to have been a huge deal if no one since said a word about it, as has occurred.