Listen to FOX News articles! If President Trump decides not to order a strike on Iran’s main underground enrichment site at Fordow, Israel has options to destroy the nuclear facility buried under a mountain south of Tehran. One option involves sending elite commandos from Unit 5101, known as Shaldag, which in Hebrew means kingfisher, a bird known to dive deep under water.
Unit 5101 surprised the world by entering a Syrian missile factory used by Iran, which resembled Fordow. Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin revealed in an exclusive interview: “There was a site that similarly looked like Fordow.” Although smaller, the Syrian facility produced advanced ballistic missiles.
“The Air Force took care of all the guards around the perimeter, and Shaldag got in, and the place is gone, destroyed,” Yadlin said. Israel has a history of planning and carrying out daring missions, including a 1981 strike against Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak. Yadlin was among the eight pilots involved in the attack, which took place without air refueling or GPS.
As head of Israel’s Military Intelligence in 2007, Yadlin oversaw Israel’s destruction of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor without U.S. assistance. Yadlin also played a role in the development of Stuxnet, a malicious computer worm that set back Iran’s nuclear enrichment.
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Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-weighs-options-destroy-fordow-has-go-alone-without-help-from-u-s
