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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2648)	3/15/2003 3:23:28 PM
From: Thomas M.	of 6945

Israel Selling Outdated Gas Masks and Antidotes To Foreign Visitors CAROL ROSENBERG, MIAMI HERALD - Israel is selling outdated gas masks and nerve-gas antidotes to guest workers and other foreign visitors. News of the evolving scandal broke Tuesday night on the Kolbotek consumer-affairs television program, which executed a journalistic sting. A reporter, identifying himself as a foreign worker, telephoned the Home Front Command hot line, read the military-issue serial number off his kit and was told it was fine. The reporter then called the hot line back as an Israeli, read off the same serial number and was told to bring in the kit for replacement. Israel's Foreign Ministry defended the practice in a statement, saying foreign visitors aren't expected to keep the kits as long as citizens are, and that the older gas masks and atropine injectors are for any near-term crisis in the event of war with Iraq. Atropine counteracts the effects of nerve gas. Israeli citizens have been told they can keep their kits for perhaps up to 10 years; visitors have been told to return them before they leave.

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