Iraq: Compensation for Israel's 1981 Osirak Airstrike?

Muhammad Naji Muhammad, an Iraqi Membeof Parliament, has claimed that the Iraqi Government is preparing to knock on the United Nations' door to demand compensation for Israel's bombing almost 30 years later: "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Foreign Ministry turned to the UN and the Security Council demanding that Israel pay us reparations for damage caused to the reactor in 1981."

UN Security Council Resolution 487, which condemned Israel's pre-emptive aerial attack, gives Iraq the right to demand compensation over the damages. In Article 6, it says: "[The United Nations] Considers that Iraq is entitled to appropriate address for the destruction it has suffered, responsibility for which has been acknowledged by Israel."