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Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Saudi ambassador salutes 1981 strike on Iraqi nuclear reactor

Saudi ambassador salutes Israeli 1981 strike on Iraqi nuclear reactor
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3236054,00.html

Turki al-Faisal, speaking in San Francisco, says Israel's 1981 strike on
Iraqi nuclear reactor was 'certainly a positive move'

Itamar Eichner YNET 4 April 2006

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States Turki al-Faisal expressed
support for Israel's strike on the Iraqi Osirak nuclear facility in 1981.

Al-Faisal said that the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor by Israel
was certainly a positive step, during a speech on foreign relations in San
Francisco.

The prince said that a region clear of nuclear weapons would also serve
Israel and increase its security. He said that it was known that Israel had
nuclear weapons, and that that Arab world felt threatened by Israel, rather
than the other way around.

Faisal added that Israel possessed the best army, air force, and navy in the
Middle East, and that these have been well used in the past.

After becoming aware that Iraq was planning to construct nuclear weapons,
Israel launched a surprise aerial attack on June 7 1981 on the Osirak
facility near Baghdad, and destroyed the Iraqi reactor.

The move was initially widely condemned, but was widely supported in
subsequent years.

(04.04.06, 12:20)

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