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...both officials, spoke admiringly of Jerusalem's restraint in the face of Iraq's Scud attacks and discussed visiting Israel. "I want to fly El Al," said the Saudi. "That's nothing," said the Kuwaiti. "I want to take the QE2's Mediterranean cruise, the one that stops in Haifa for a week." "You're joking," said the Saudi. "No, I'm serious," replied the Kuwaiti. "Okay," the Saudi shot back, "I'll join...
...Early Friday morning, air-raid sirens went off through much of Israel. The government radio ordered all citizens to don the gas masks that had been distributed earlier and move into the sealed rooms that every household had been urged to prepare. Then blasts began rocking Tel Aviv and Haifa. Early reports said at least one missile warhead had released nerve gas and that a hospital in Tel Aviv was receiving gassed victims...
...Israeli count eight Scuds hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Ramallah area on Friday, but none released gas. They injured about a dozen people but killed no one. Four elderly Israelis and a three-year-old girl, however, either suffocated inside gas masks that had been improperly adjusted or died of heart attacks. Despite the fatalities, that amounted to a popgun attack in contrast to the kind of assault Israel and the U.S. had feared Saddam would mount...
...experts are quick to point out the deficiencies of the Scud missile. It is unwieldy and inaccurate, practically antique, a dinosaur compared with the sleek and precise Tomahawk cruise missile. But clumsiness can still be dangerous -- as Israel discovered when a dozen Scuds came galumphing into Tel Aviv and Haifa last week. Designed by the Soviets to deliver nuclear warheads over a short range, the Scud can miss its mark by as much as a mile. It is most effective against large cities, where the goal is not to hit a specific target but to terrorize the population. During...
...clear siren just sounded. We take off our masks as army radio announces that multiple conventional Scuds had indeed struck at the "center" and the "north" of the country, a euphamism that every Isreali knew to mean Tel Aviv and Haifa repectively. No report on casualties yet. I am in a state of shock. It doesn't seem real that I could be abruptly awakened in the middle of the night and forced to hide in a sealed room wearing a suffocating gas mask. The Gulf War has come to Israel...