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Jan. 22, 2007 22:50 | Updated Jan. 23, 2007 1:39
"IDF builds fake Muslim city to prepare for war"
By SHELLY PAZ
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The IDF unveiled an Urban Warfare Training Center (UTC) on Monday in a mock city that simulates an Arab town, four months after the second Lebanon war ended.
The unit's commanders firmly stated that the city was planned eight years ago and that construction began a year ago. They added that the current pace of the training was two battalions each week.
The mock city is located in the southern Tze'elim military base. From a distance, it looks like any Arab urban center.
Around 500 structures were built for a maximum capacity of 5,000 residents. "Just like in every real city we built mosques, a Casba and even a refugee camp," said Lt.-Col Arik Moreh, the second in command of the Tactical Training City (TTC), part of the UTC, following a large urban warfare training exercise Monday morning.
Arab music was played in the background throughout the entire exercise, to get everyone in the mood.
In the center some of the houses' walls have holes, an imitation of those soldiers leave behind after breaking into houses and taking them over."
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Report: Russia completes Iran missile deliveries
Published: 01.23.07, 08:21
Russia has completed a contract to deliver its TOR-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran, Itar-Tass news agency quoted Sergei Chemezov, head of state arms exporter Rosoboronexport as saying on Tuesday.
"(Russia) fully completed delivery to Iran of the TOR-M1 missile complexes at the end of December 2006," Tass quoted Chemezov as saying. The deal to supply the missiles has angered the United States and Israel. (Reuters)