Given current event directions in Iran and today's announcement of the
test of the Iranian Shahab-3 missile with a range of at least 810 miles
(Israel and US Middle Eastern bases) and possibly longer (European
targets), ("Iran Test Fires New Ballistic Missile",
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...a/iran_missile)
, I would suggest a review of the Osirak strike might be timely.

In particular:
- "Two Minutes Over Baghdad", Perlmutter et al, was updated with a
Second Edition in 2003.
- "Raid on the Sun : Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam
the Bomb", Rodger Claire, 2004.

Can anyone recommend any others?


I assume a similiar strike today would be more difficult given longer
distances, better air defenses and perhaps more widely dispersed nuclear
development sites instead of a single reactor.