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| PA refuses to prepare for Iraqi missile attack |
| 2003-02-16 |
| The Palestinian Authority has decided to relinquish preparations for the prospect of an Iraqi missile attack on either the West Bank or Gaza Strip. PA officials said authorities do not plan to distribute gas masks or serums to Palestinians to counter fallout from any Iraqi nonconventional missile attack. They said the PA has not organized civil defense efforts or bunkers to protect against a conventional missile attack. The PA has been offered the option of purchasing gas masks and other equipment to prepare for an Iraqi missile attack. But officials said PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has determined that any Iraqi missile aimed toward Israel would not fall on either the West Bank or Gaza Strip. "We have to prioritize for the donors what is most urgent, urgent, and so on," Fathi Abu Moghli, a PA Health Ministry official, told the IMRA information agency. "We didn't reach this level of need — to ask for masks." "Yasss... The money will be much more secure in Switzerland. The Paleos? Oh, don't worry about them. They're used to having lots of dead people around." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Of course any strays that fall on the territories will probably be reported to the press as having been fired from "American Made" helicopters. |
| Posted by: Hermetic 2003-02-16 22:21:30 |
| #4 Paul...he he ...now that's devious. I'm speculating that Yasser has found the heretofore undiscovered anti-NBC properties of Baby Wipes...damn |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-16 17:59:21 |
| #3 I hope that the US and IDF radars can accurately predict trajectories. We can selectively intercept what needs to be intercepted and let the strays go where they may. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-02-16 16:03:26 |
| #2 any Iraqi missile aimed toward Israel would not fall on either the West Bank or Gaza Strip Not intentionally, but pieces of them might. He's obviously never heard of Patriots and the Israeli Arrow missile defense system (I think that's what it's called). |
| Posted by: RW 2003-02-16 15:43:59 |
| #1 SCUDs have really lousy aim. One bad shot by Iraq (especially with a chem. warhead) might take care of all kinds of problems. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-02-16 13:01:21 |