in article , Paul Saccani at
wrote on 9/28/03 7:17 PM:

But the Israeli's stated that they used F-4's at the time, and for years
afterwards, to avoid issues relating to using their new aircraft in such a
politically sensitive fashion.

It might be interesting to look at subsequent statements in that series, to
see
if they start referring to F-4 instead of (the correct) F-15 and F-16.

Now this is strange. I clearly recall it being widely reported in the
American press at the time that F-16s did the bombing while F-15s flew
cover. In fact, I've never heard anything else in the intervening years
until I read your post.

Michael