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Operation Sphix – The israeli attack to Iraqui nuclear reactor (Operation Opera) – YouTube.

A MUST WATCH !

The parallels to the current situation with Iran are too numerous to list, though I have to say, Shimon Perez stands out .  I’m a dedicated student of the attack on the reactor.  This film recounts not only the military aspect but the political as well.

If you are like me, you are very nervous right now.  This film will make you feel a little better.

–  JW

Operation Sphinx — Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France.

Operation Opera (Hebrew: אופרה‎), also known as Operation Babylon was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on June 7, 1981, that destroyed a nuclear reactor under construction 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
In 1976, Iraq purchased an “Osiris”-class nuclear reactor from France. While Iraq and France maintained that the reactor, named Osirak by the French, was intended for peaceful scientific research, the Israelis viewed the reactor with suspicion, and said that it was designed to make nuclear weapons. On June 7, 1981, a flight of Israeli Air Force F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed and heavily damaged the Osirak reactor. Israel claimed it acted in self-defense, and that the reactor had “less than a month to go” before “it might have become critical.” Ten Iraqi soldiers and one French civilian were killed. The attack took place about three weeks before the elections for the Knesset.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osirak

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