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...could jeopardize his broader goals in the region. But Administration hawks countered that installing a more pliant regime in Baghdad would dramatically change the region's political climate, and actually facilitate a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sunday's twin suicide bombings that killed 22 people in Tel Aviv even as the U.S. moved to complete preparations for an Iraq invasion is a stark reminder that both hypotheses may soon be tested...
...Aviv terror attack was not unexpected. Indeed, the Israeli authorities had been aware of a general threat, and had worked hard to interdict the bombers who traveled from the West Bank. Israel security officials say that despite Israel's reoccupation and continued military operations throughout the West Bank for the past eight months, they still face up to 40 specific threats a week - and some are bound to get through...
...mobile missile or its launcher in Iraq--though it did destroy what turned out to be a few fuel trucks as well as some East German decoys that looked like the real thing. Scuds caused not only mayhem in Israel during the month the missiles rained down on Tel Aviv but also the deaths of 28 U.S. troops whose barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, were demolished by a Scud. Those 28 accounted for a fifth of all U.S. deaths in the war. Part of the problem was that in the beginning, Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. Army general...
...about the size of, well, a cell phone. The devices, which block phone signals in an area the size of a dining room or a bus, can be legally bought in Israel and Japan. They are prohibited in the U.S., Canada and Britain, but NetLine of Tel Aviv--a leading manufacturer along with Medic, based in Tokyo--says the U.S. and Europe are its biggest markets. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission says it knows of no arrests of people using jammers but warns that they risk an $11,000 fine and a year in prison...
Iraq has actively pursued production of shortrange missiles, legal under the U.N. resolutions. But it may also have two dozen or more enhanced-and prohibited-Scud missiles left over from 1991 and potentially able to deliver chemical or biological warheads as far away as Tel Aviv, Riyadh or Tehran...