Bush considered attack on Syrian facility - book

Former President George W. Bush says he considered ordering a US military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel's request in 2007, but ultimately opted against it.

In his memoir, "Decision Points," to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Bush says shortly after he received an intelligence report about a "suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria," he spoke by phone with then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound," Olmert told Bush, according to the book, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. (Reuters)