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...Palestinian bomber entered the Israeli cafe in Dimona on Monday morning, ordered a coffee with extra sugar and drank it down slowly, say eyewitnesses. Then he blew himself up, killing one woman and wounding 10 other Israelis...
...Israel, every half-hour we get news. Here you can't follow so closely," said Hannah Himan-Pessah, head of the Strategic Planning and Information Unit in the Dimona Municipality. "Our impression is that we're not getting the full picture...
...Palestinians tell their own version of the war. An Iraqi Scud missile slammed into Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, killing 400 Soviet Jewish immigrants just off the plane. Thousands of Israelis were slaughtered by the Scuds, and the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev lies in ruins. The Americans lost 100,000 soldiers in battle. Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait was only tactical, designed to lull the allies, while Saddam Hussein waited for the right moment to incinerate the Jewish state. "Every Palestinian knows that Saddam will emerge victorious," said Abdul Majeed Shahin as he discussed the war with...
...meantime, the Israeli air force remains on alert, and the air defenses around Dimona, Israel's nuclear complex, have been strengthened. Military intelligence claims that it can detect in advance any Iraqi preparations for a missile launch. But officials do not believe that Iraq has the technological ability to loft chemical warheads inside Israel's borders. In the worst case, say experts, Iraq can wound but not cripple the Jewish state...
...been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped. The caper put a strain on Israel's relations with Britain and Italy...