Posted on 06/18/2009 9:02:37 AM PDT by SJackson
A group of Iraqi lawmakers are determined to press forward with their demands for reparations for a 1981 Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, Baghdad's daily al-Sabbah reported Thursday.
Mohammed Naji Mohammed, a member of parliament with the United Iraqi Alliance coalition, is leading a campaign for a parliamentary resolution obliging the Iraqi foreign ministry and courts to seek billions of dollars in reparations for an Israeli air strike on the Osiraq nuclear reactor.
"We will intensify the campaign in the coming period to prevent the Foreign Ministry from delaying attempts to seek compensation for the attack in accordance with existing international resolutions," Naji told al-Sabbah. Advertisement
UN Security Council Resolution 487, passed in the wake of the attack, "strongly condemns" Israel's air strike against Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor in June 1981, and "considers that Iraq is entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered, responsibility for which has been acknowledged by Israel."
Israeli officials at the time said they were concerned that the reactor could eventually be used to produce nuclear weapons for the regime led at the time by Saddam Hussein.
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Will they compensate Israel for all their citizens who were blown to bits on Saddam’s payroll? Or the damage caused by Scud missiles hurled into Isreal during the Gulf War?
Are they going to seek redress for knocking down all those valuable statues of Saddam as well?
If the Iraqis want to pay Israel for the costs involved, I say they should be allowed to!
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Yeah. Good luck with that!
These guys must be nuts. They want the rest of the world to forgive all debts incurred by Saddam, but at the same time, they want Israel to compensate them for bombing Saddam’s Nuclear site. I have two words for them....”Fat Chance”.
Israel has addressed that issue, as well as restitution of property for Jews expelled from the country. No luck, those were former governments, not the current governments problem. Also the idea of letting Iraqi Israelis wishing to open business' in Iraq do so, that was a non starter too.
Maybe with Olmert the appeasing lawyer,
but i don’t think this dog will hunt for BiBi.
It’s ideas like this that makes it quite plain why the Arab world hasn’t contributed much to civilization for centuries.
These people are meatheads. My word.
Netanyahu will tell them what part of a stray dogs anatomy they can kiss.
The ‘new’ attitude towards Israel is my biggest objection to the US liberation of Iraq.
After [Mithal] al Alusi attended an annual international conference on terrorism in Herzliya, Israel last week, and thereby offended the long-standing anti-Israel policy of Iraq, the Parliament banned him from foreign travel, ousted him from legislative activity and deprived him of the immunity from prosecution that parliamentarians enjoy.
http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/2008/09/free_mital_al_alusi_champion_o.php
Simply lulz!
Come and get them.
I flew over the Osiraq reactor site not long ago and their ain’t much left. The IAF did a good job.
Bibi needs to send another swarm of jets over IRAN and take out their facilities, and get a two-fer out of it.
Wipes out Iran’s crap, and gives the Iraqi’s pause.
There's another thread about Iraqi refugees that came here moaning that they can't find a job (welcome to the club). And now this reparations nonsense.
In hindsight, maybe we should have said 'the hell with any collateral damage' and just used cheap 'dumb' bombs during 'Shock and Awe'.
Great to see democracy finally taking root in Iraq. Yup. Reparations. Should Israel give them 40 acres, or a mule?
You gotta be kidding me.
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