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If Not for Israel, Islamic State Would Control Saddam Hussein's Nuclear Reactor

(Ynet News) Guy Bechor - I received a message from a man who lives in Iraq and wanted to thank Israel for destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor in 1981. If it were not for that, he wrote, Iraq would have been filled with nuclear facilities; Israel saved the Iraqi people. Indeed, Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor, had it remained, would now be in the area occupied by the Islamic State in Anbar province. The writer heads the Middle East Division at the Lauder School of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
2015-06-05 00:00:00
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