Syrian nukes too secret for their own military?

Jerusalem Post:

The secrecy under which Syria kept its nuclear development may have contributed to the success of Israel's alleged air strike against a nuclear facility in September, Aviation Week reported on Saturday.

Quoting unnamed Israeli sources, the report stated that due to internal politics within Damascus, the site was so highly classified that even the Syrian military was unaware of its existence. Accordingly, proper air defenses were never erected, thereby leaving the area vulnerable to aerial attack.

The report also noted Israel's use of advanced technology to conduct the attack, saying that intelligence gathered by the recently launched Ofek-7 spy satellite played a major role.

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Is that like double secret probation in Animal House? A weapons project that was too secret to defend sounds like the magical thinking of a country like Syria. Israel still had to evade the Syrian air defenses as it entered the country and it probably did that by spoofing the Russian computers used by the Syrians.