The raid on the reactor 1981 (1 Viewer)

[The face of Jacob]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2295792449224502914&pl=true

PM Menachem Begin and Lieutenant General Rafael Eitan at the press confrence right after the attack, June 7th 1981:

The vision from the cockpit

 

[Diogenes]

A fantastic raid by some exceptionally courageous folks. It bought us 22 years before we had to make the hard decision to finish the job. Thanks for posting.

 

[akyron]

Good documentary.

Whats funny is Iran attempted a strike on the very same place and failed.

Iran attacked a nuclear reactor.....

Considering whats going on now the irony is staggering.








"on September 30, 1980, two Iranian Phantom jets, part of a larger group of aircraft attacking a conventional electric power plant near Baghdad also bombed the Osirak reactor. Minor damage to the reactor was reported, although the reactor was up and running again a short time thereafter. No further Iranian air attacks against Iraqi nuclear facilities were identified during the rest of the seven-year war.

It is not clear whether this attack was consciously designed as a strategic strike to deny Saddam Hussein an atomic bomb or whether this raid was an afterthought of two Iranian pilots who had weapons and fuel left to bomb a target of opportunity after their group had attacked the electric power plant.

Whichever is true, the Iranian raid constitutes the third time any country had attacked the nuclear facilities of an enemy and was the first recorded PCP attack since World War II."