ISRAELI PLOT
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James Joyner | Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
Oskar van Rijswijk at The Command Post posts some interesting news:
Sayeret Matkal, the IDF General Staff’s elite special-operations force, trained in 1992 to assassinate Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a daring operation that would have landed commandos in Iraq and fired sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral. The attempt was called off after five soldiers were killed during a training accident.
The Israelis did the world a big favor in blowing up Saddam’s Osirik nuclear reactor in 1981; a shame they didn’t have this encore in 1992.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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