All this raises questions about whether Israel might try to knock out the reactors, just as its warplanes bombed an Iraqi reactor in 1981.

In June 1981, he ordered the bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad.

In 1981 Israel attacked and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, which it said was used to build atomic weapons.

The first Iraqi nuclear reactor was named by the French "Osirak".

The following year, Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak.

Five years ago, Israeli bombers destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor that could have made material needed to build an atomic bomb.

Israel's attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 caught the Americans unaware, according to official papers.

They assumed he'd helped plan the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirik in 1981.

And, after bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor some years back, Israel is not on the list because.

Iraq and France claimed that the Iraqi reactor was intended for peaceful scientific research.