Destroying nuke sites ‘would totally differ’ from Iraq attack

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.”

The strike at the heart of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program at Osirak outside Baghdad in 1981 was, and remains, one of Israel’s most daring raids.

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

(Dudu Grunshpan) EIGHT F-16s like the one pictured flew through enemy airspace on June 7, 1981, to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor.