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| 40 years since Operation Opera, attack against Iran 'would be different' |
| 2021-06-21 |
| [JPost] - Forty years after Israel destroyed Iraq’s fledgling nuclear program, one of the pilots who took part in Operation Opera warned that an attack against Iran’s nuclear reactors "won’t be the same." ...But any operation to take out the Iranian nuclear program "won’t be the same; it can’t be the same," Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Relik Shafir told The Jerusalem Post. In Iran, "it’s all very different, especially how they built their program." Unlike in Operation Opera, Iran’s nuclear sites are spread across the country, some deep underground or in mountains, and surrounded by sophisticated air-defense systems. Shafir was one of eight IAF pilots selected for the mission, including one who would one day become the country’s first astronaut. It was Ilan Ramon’s first operational mission, but not Shafir’s, who was the second youngest of the pilots. ..."It’s a different world 40 years later, but the interests and motivations of humans remain the same. The Middle East and our conflict remains, even though at the time it was with Iraq, and now it’s with Iran." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 The "cleanup on aisle three..." described above was perhaps the cause of the political exploitation that followed that "Bush lied, people died". Some people believe we were protecting friends and our own misdeeds in the coverup, and others believe that the folks behind the Green Door wanted to aid the progressive side of the swamp. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-06-21 12:17 |
| #3 Of course that doesn't account for all the newer empty warheads, 2 and 3-part chemical storage containers with working transfer pumps connected, sealed containers with 'Bio-Hazard' labels in English and Russian (those disappeared after 'Special' units visited the sites), new mop suits and recently printed handling instructions in Arabic that our family Marine's unit (and other units) found in early 2003. Much of the equipment was labelled in French and German, so there's that too. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-06-21 10:41 |
| #2 ...the administration buildings became one of Saddam's many BIO warfare research labs. There weren't any of those, Besoeker. CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN told me so. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-06-21 10:26 |
| #1 A bit of possibly little known irony. While the reactor at Osirak lay in ruin, the administration buildings became one of Saddam's many BIO warfare research labs. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-21 03:59 |