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Book Review of Raid on the Sun : Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb

Raid on the Sun : Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb
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Interesting book read in light of current events as of 2006.

FROM BACK COVER:
"The first inside account of the landmark air raid that eliminated Iraq's nuclear threat."

FROM FRONT COVER:
Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb:
In June 1981, faced with a nuclear threat from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Israel resolved to eliminate a French-built, Baghdad-based reactor producing weapons-grade plutonium. This is the extraordinary true story of one of the most daring--and successful--military air strikes ever.

"Reads like a techno-thriller." --Publishers Weekly

FROM BACK COVER:
"The first inside account of the landmark air raid tha eliminated Iraq's nuclear threat."