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Wendle writes:

"ISRAEL?? IRAQ NEVER ATTACKED ISRAEL!"

Sorry you are so clueless, Wendle.

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2 Die as Scuds Hit Tel Aviv,

January 27, 1991
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-27/news/mn-315_1_saudi-arabia

Patriots shoot down all but one of seven missiles fired at Israel. The Jewish state holds its fire despite internal pressure to retaliate.

|From Times Staff and Wire Reports

TEL AVIV — Iraq fired a rain of seven Scud missiles into Israel on Friday, and one crashed into a house in Tel Aviv, killing a neighbor next door. But Israel refrained from retaliating despite complaints that allied Scud-killing in Iraq has been too slow.

A barrage of Patriot interceptors blew apart the other six Iraqi Scuds in midair, scattering debris over greater Tel Aviv and near Haifa. Shutters shattered, windows broke and shingles fell on city streets. None of the Scuds carried poison gas. But 66 Israelis were injured, authorities said--most of them slightly.

Baghdad's latest military communique claimed that most allied attacks on Iraq were directed at civilian targets. CNN's Peter Arnett, the last foreign correspondent in Baghdad, said the Iraqis took him to a small town where almost two dozen homes were destroyed in what he was told was an air attack. The Iraqis said 24 civilians were killed in the attack, he reported.

The Scud attack also came as the United States was rushing more Patriots to Israel. The Israeli army said the U.S. missiles would be operational "in a short time."

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is trying to draw Israel into the gulf war in hopes of driving some Arab states out of the anti-Iraq alliance and onto Iraq's side in a war against their traditional enemy, the Jewish state.

Baghdad radio Friday night appealed to Arab officers and soldiers to defect. "Do you not feel proud," the radio said, "to see us stand up against all the Arabs' enemies, not scared or frightened? . . . Then why do you not join us?"

It wasn't clear if the often-jammed and static-filled radio, which was monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, could be heard in the Saudi desert where Syrian and Egyptian troops are camped.