Posted on 10/16/2001 12:52:41 PM PDT by kattracks
JERUSALEM, Oct 16 (AFP) - Iraq will strike Israel if the United States threatens Saddam Hussein, head of Israeli intelligence General Amos Malkha said Tuesday.
The Iraqi president "will attack Israel if he feels the United States is threatening his control of Iraq," Malkha told the parliamentary foreign and defence committee, Israeli television reported.
The statement follows growing Israeli expectations of a US attack on the Arab country, but Washington has promised to warn Israel before any such action.
The United States plans to expand its war on terror beyond Afghanistan and is closely monitoring Iraq, US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice said Tuesday.
The United States was "worried" by Saddam's attempts to reconstitute his mass destruction weapons capability, Rice said in an interview with Qatar's Al-Jazeera television.
"There is no doubt that Iraq is in the sights of the United States and sooner or later the Americans will take this country on, but for the moment we are in the dark and we have to wait," Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelossof said last week.
Washington has warned Iraq not to exploit the crisis over Afghanistan and threaten its neighbours or ethnic minorities with weapons of mass destruction.
Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer also said last week the country was ready should the United States broaden its attacks against the perpetrators of the September 11 terror strikes to include Iraq.
"We do not take any risks and we have taken into account the possibility that the war will spread to Iraq, and this time we are well prepared because we have drawn all the right conclusions," Ben Eliezer said.
He was referring to the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait when Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israeli territory, killing two and leaving dozens injured as hundreds of houses were damaged in the Tel Aviv region.
Under intense pressure from the United States, which led a coalition including Arab states in evicting Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait, Israel refrained from retaliating to the strikes.
I don't believe smallpox can survive at 1,000,000 degree temp.
Is this a fact, or more surmise by outsiders?
We've tied Israel's hands too long.
I'm with Netanyahu. I think we sooner or later must get him, because he will use nukes or pox or whatever against us. Sept 11 taught me that much.
Keep on baiting the sonofab*tch and let's get it on.
TM
PS: The Israelis WILL NOT take any crap this time. But like Timesink stated in post #5:
What the father began, THE SON SHALL FINISH
Sounds like Saddam is ready to meet Allah.
One thing to consider is if large numbers of US troops are taken out by non-traditional means (or by traditional means, too, for that matter, but that would be later), the US would have the same response as 1945.
Two words the arabs should remember: Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
You mean, like, smashing fuel and people-laden aircraft into buildings? Spreading anthrax in our mail system? Stuff like that?
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