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Book review: "Two Minutes Over Baghdad, 1981"
from http://www.washtimes.com/books/
On June 7, 1981, a flight of eight Israeli Fighter Falcon bombers destroyed the French built 75-megawatt nuclear reactor at Osirak, 12 miles east of Baghdad and two weeks from going operational. It was the first time that an attempt had been made to neutralize a nuclear state by force. While the Israeli preemptive strike was widely criticized at the time especially in this country, it is now widely held that had Osirak not been razed, Saddam Hussein would have had nuclear weapons at his disposal and very likely would today be master of the Middle East. Today the then-leader of the Israeli air force, David Ivry, presently ambassador to the United States, has on his Washington embassy office wall a satellite photo of the destroyed reactor taken 10 years after the raid. According to George Will, the photo has this handwritten description: "For General David Ivry, with thanks and appreciation for the outstanding job he did on the Iraqi nuclear program in 1981 which made our job much easier in Desert Storm." It is signed: "Dick Cheney, Sec. of Defense, 1989-93." And it certainly made it a lot easier in April 2003. Two Minutes Over Baghdad (Frank Cass Publishers, $19.50, 232 pages) by Amos Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel and Uri Bar-Joseph with an introduction by Barry Rubin, is a gripping story of the bombing updated by Mr. Bar-Joseph of Haifa University from the earlier 1982 edition. Two of the co-authors — Perlmutter and Handel — have died since. The new edition contains descriptions of the attack by the pilots themselves and hitherto classified archives and photographs. One of the Osirak bomber crew was a very young Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space, who tragically died aboard the Shuttle Columbia last February. |
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Mike,
how much is the book going into details about the Israeli-Iranian cooperation regarding their actions against the Iraqi nuclear ambitions, in 1980 and 1981? Tom Cooper Co-Author: Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988: http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php and, Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat: http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585 |
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"Tom Cooper" wrote in message ...
Mike, how much is the book going into details about the Israeli-Iranian cooperation regarding their actions against the Iraqi nuclear ambitions, in 1980 and 1981? Tom Cooper Co-Author: Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988: http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php and, Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat: http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585 Oh please give it a rest Tom... or save it for your own autobiography "Why I love Iran and Hate Israel" by Tom Cooper. Once translated I'm sure it will be a best seller in Tehran right next to "America, the Great Satan". Rob |
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