Olmert met with planner of Osirak attack

Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert met on Friday with General (Ret.) Aviam Sela (link in Hebrew), the planner of Operation Opera, the attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981. The Prime Minister's office has confirmed the meeting, which took place in Olmert's Jerusalem residence. According to the Israeli daily Maariv, Sela is considered the father of the idea of refuelling jets in flight, and would