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Missiles neutralizing Israeli tanks By BENJAMIN HARVEY, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM - Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks. Experts say this is further evidence that Israel is facing a well-equipped army in this war, not a ragtag militia. Hezbollah has fired Russian-made Metis-M anti-tank missiles and owns European-made Milan missiles, the army confirmed on Friday. In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks — mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of...

Ukraine's arms export agency denied on Monday a report in U.S. magazine Newsweek that Ukrainian dealers sold Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles to Iraq in violation of UN sanctions. "Nothing like that could have gone past us," Ukrspetsexport spokesman Alexander Urban said by telephone from Kiev. Newsweek reported that Iraq has purchased 1,000 laser-guided Kornet missiles and identified the sellers as Ukrainian arms dealers. The magazine cited unnamed Pentagon generals as saying Ukrainian dealers sold about 500 Kornets in January. Iraqi forces have used the missiles, made by KBP of Tula, to destroy two U.S. Abrams tanks already, the sources said....