 operation bramble bush was an israeli plan to assassinate iraqi dictator saddam hussein in 1992. it was described in full in december 2003 by the israeli newspaper yedioth ahronoth,israel's secret plan to kill saddam abc news, jan. 11, 2004. though news reports had circulated about the plot since january 1999.report says israel dumped plan to assassinate saddam the plan was conceived as retaliation for iraqi scud missile attacks during the gulf war.israel reveals post gulf war plan to assassinate, shelved after drill blunder when saddam's uncle, khairallah talfah, was discovered to be terminally ill, the israelis investigated the possibility using a commando team to ambush the funeral party. a commando team from the israeli army's elite sayeret matkal special forces unit was to be inserted into iraq from jordan, where they would travel to the funeral near tikrit and kill saddam with tv-guided "midras" missiles."israelis dropped assassination plan after practice run ended in disaster" by toby harnden, telegraph. dec. 17, 2003.mossad plot to assassinate saddam january 1999. accessed april 3, 2010. a rehearsal for the operation took place on november 5, 1992 in the negev desert. the operation's execution was just two days away. however, in the rehearsal, israeli commandos accidentally fired live rounds into a convoy simulating the target, killing five of their fellow sayeret matkal commandos and wounding six more.secret protocols reveal: yitzhak rabin approved an israeli operation to kill saddam hussein the head of the idf, ehud barak, had been watching the rehearsal at the time. the plan was canceled. israeli press reports described the incident as a "training accident.""five soldiers killed, six injured in training mishap." the associated press, november 5, 1992. israeli censors tried to prevent israeli newspapers from publishing the fact that the head of military intelligence, uri saguy, had witnessed the accident, but the censors relented a few weeks later."censor lifts ban on general's role in accident." upi, november 23, 1992. on november 24, the american newspaper the miami herald reported that the soldiers involved in the accident had been rehearsing a plan to
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