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| Israel Deploys Patriot Missiles near Northern Port |
| 2012-10-09 |
| [An Nahar] Israel has deployed Patriot anti-missile batteries near the northern port city of Haifa, Israeli media reported Monday, just two days after an unidentified drone infiltrated the country's airspace. A military spokeswoman confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse that the U.S.-made missiles, which can shoot down drones, had been stationed near Haifa but refused to confirm the move was related to the Saturday infiltration. A defense official told AFP it was not the first time that the mobile Patriot batteries had been deployed near Haifa. Israeli fighter jets shot down the unarmed drone over the northern Negev desert on Saturday, after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea near the Gazoo Strip. The army said it did not believe the drone had been launched from Gazoo but was looking into the possibility that Hizbullah may have dispatched it, a military official told Israeli public radio. Patriot missiles, which the United States first sent to Israel during the 1991 Gulf war, were used to defend Haifa during Israel's 2006 conflict with Hizbullah, when the group fired hundreds of rockets from neighboring Leb. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also WORLD NEWS > DRONE FLIGHT SHOWS ISRAEL IS VULNERABLE, IRAN MILITARY OFFICIAL SAYS. Israel's ballyhooed "Iron Dome" BMDS does not work nor has the "necessary capacity". versus * TOPIX >[ISIS Think-tank] STUDY: IRAN COULD PRODUCE ENOUGH URANIUM FOR BOMB IN TWO MONTHS. Actually 2-4 months, while needing up to another 10 months to build a working NucBomb/Warhead/ Device. IOW, EOY 2013, + ASAP beyond. versus * MEMRI.ORG > [Video] LED BY OSAMA BIN LADEN FRIEND SHEIKH ZAKIRI, ITTEHAD ULEMA-E-AFGHANISTAN ISSUES FATWA AGZ ANTI-MUHAMMED MOVIE, URGING [Any + All] ISLAMIC NATIONS TO WAGE JIHAD AGZ AMERICA. Also to kick out US Diplomatic Envoys from Islamic countries, andor to recall their own from the US in protest. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-10-09 00:59 |