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Palestinian terror organizations have the ability to carry out a chemical attack in Israel, but have refrained from doing so to date due to the repercussions of such an attack, a senior Israeli security official said this week. "It is not a problem for terror organizations to attain chemical materials, and they are aware of the advantages of such an attack, but on the other hand [they know] it would be considered breaking all the rules of the game," the official said at a briefing. He noted that such an attack could kill hundreds or thousands of people, as opposed...

The Jerusalem Post December 3, 2002, Tuesday SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2 LENGTH: 600 words HEADLINE: Halevy: Mega-terror has changed everything BYLINE: Greer Fay Cashman, News Agencies Contributed To This Report. BODY: Mega-terrorism and global jihad have changed the rules of the game in the balance of national and international security, said Ephraim Halevy, immediate past head of the Mossad and current chief of the National Security Council, at Monday's opening of the third annual Herzliya Conference. "A successful terrorist mega-attack would instantly change a long series of rules of conduct and behavior," he said. Last Thursday's attack on an Arkia...