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Operation Opera (Hebrew: אופרה), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) southeast of Baghdad. The operation came after Iran's unsuccessful Operation Scorch Sword operation had caused minor damage to the same nuclear facility the previous year, the damage having been subsequently repaired by French technicians. Operation Opera, and related Israeli government statements following it, established the Begin Doctrine, which explicitly stated the strike was not an anomaly, but instead “a precedent for every future government in Israel.” Israel's counter-proliferation preventive strike added another dimension to their existing policy of deliberate ambiguity, as it related to the nuclear capability of other states in the region.
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 7 June 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.
Operation Opera (Hebrew: אופרה),[1] also known as Operation Babylon,[2] was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on 7 June 1981, that destroyed a nuclear reactor under construction 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.[3][4][5] This operation was after Iran's Operation Scorch Sword that damaged this nuclear facility months before. In 1976, Iraq purchased an "Osiris"-class nuclear reactor from France.[6][7] While Iraq and France maintained that the reactor, named Osirak by the French, was intended for peaceful scientific research,[8] the Israelis viewed the reactor with suspicion, and said that it was designed to make nuclear weapons.[3] On 7 June 1981, a flight of Israeli Air Force F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed and heavily damaged the Osir...
Footage from raid on Saddam Hussein's under construction nuclear reactor.
In June 7,1981 Code Named Operation Opera. F-15 Eagles & F-16 Fighting Falcons flew 650 miles threw hostile territory using 2000 pound Iron bombs destroying the Osirak Nuclear Reactor.
Ende der 1970er und Anfang der 1980er Jahre unterhielt der Irak ein militärisches Nuklearprogramm. Dies war eine direkte Bedrohung für Israel. Die israelische Luftwaffe konnte den irakischen Reaktor Osirak im Jahre 1981 zerstören und damit eine massive Gefahr abwenden.
19 août 1986 Au micro d'Europe 1 Michel d'ORNANO, députe UDF du Calvados, répond aux questions sur la signature d'un accord nucléaire entre la France et l'Irak en 1975, époque où il était ministre de l'Industrie.Michel D'ORNANO : " je n'ai jamais accompagné Jacques Chirac en Irak, je n'ai donc pu négocier en marge de cette visite ... L'accord conclu en 1975 a donné lieu à un décret de 1976 qui n'a rien de secret, signé du Président Giscard d'Estaing, du premier ministre Jacques Chirac et du ministre des Affaires étrangères Jacques Sauvanargues ". Il montre le décret publié au Journal Officiel. politique; archive television; archive tv; ina; inna; Institut National de l'Audiovisuel; french tv Images d'archive INA Institut National de l'Audiovisuel http://www.ina.fr Abonnez-vous http://w...
Israeli Airstrike on Iraqi Nuclear Reactor 1981
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Operation Orchard[2][3] (Hebrew: מבצע בוסתן, Mivtza bustan) was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor[4] in the Deir ez-Zor region[5] of Syria, which occurred just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007. The Israeli and U.S. governments imposed virtually total news blackouts immediately after the raid that held for seven months.[6] The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsequently confirmed that American intelligence had also indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a military purpose, though Syria denies this.[7][8] A 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation reported evidence of uranium and graphite and concluded that the site bore features resembling an undeclared nuclear reactor. ...
Raid on the Reactor by Steven Feld The true story of how Israel used politics, espionage, blackmail, targeted assassinations and finally military power to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor and deny him the bomb.
Date: January 29, 2010 Speaker: Prof. Moshe Arens (Former Minister of Defense of Israel) In his presentation at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Prof. Moshe Arens argued the following: The Iranians learned a great deal from the destruction of Iraq's Osirak reactor by the Israel Air Force in 1981. The Osirak reactor was the key element in the Iraqi nuclear program: a single target which, when it was destroyed, set that program back very substantially. The Iranians saw this and they dispersed their nuclear program. Much of it is deep underground. There is no single target which, if destroyed, would substantially set back the Iranian nuclear program. When I came to Washington as Israel's ambassador in 1982, the atmosphere was one of hostility and there was talk of imposing sanction...
How Israeli forces used crack intelligence and covert tactics during the Six-Day War in June 1967. Despite being surrounded and outnumbered by the enemy, they managed to rewrite the map of the Middle East leading up to the raid on Osirak. History
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The StandWithUs Ambassadors Club at the IDC Herzliya - the premier Israeli public diplomacy program on campus - was thrilled to host Ambassador Yehuda Avner. Advisor, Speechwriter and Diplomat, Ambassador Avner wrote a compelling account of his time with Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzchak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres. His book - The Prime Ministers - is being made into several films. Ambassador Avner gave insight into his time with Israeli and world leaders, especially into the relationships between Israeli Prime Ministers and their American Presidential counterparts. In conversation with StandWithUs Israel Director Michael Dickson, he answered questions about the early days of the re-establishment of the State of Israel, about the Six Day War, comparing Prime Minister Begin's p...