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ISRAELI PLOT

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.

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About James Joyner
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. Follow James on Twitter.

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  1. Can ya’ll imagine that Israel
    Can ya’ll imagine that Israel had really come up with a plan to assassinate Saddam? attribution: James OTB via The Command Post…

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