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The Iraq Project
Documenting U.S. policy toward Iraq for more than two decades
Documenting U.S. policy toward Iraq for more than two decades
Washington, D.C., June 7, 2021 – On June 7, 1981, 40 years ago today, Israel attacked and partially destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research reactor at Tuwaitha, using U.S.…