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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (36918)8/12/2002 4:17:05 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Nadine and others,

Do you understand why the residents of Hadera fear the deployment of the Arrow antitactical ballistic missile?
Are these some kind of defensive nuclear missile?
What the heck is an antitactical missile anyway?


Israel's defense establishment still has no clear data about the American plans. The working assumption is that the U.S. will not attack Iraq before the end of the year. The IDF is now perfecting the mechanisms that will be used if and when the war starts - early warning, home front command (distribution of gas masks and vaccines) and aerial defense (including the Arrow antitactical ballistic missile and the air force).

The Air Force has already started deploying Arrow missile batteries near Hadera for a two-week drill. Military sources maintain that the timing of the current drill is not directly related to the expected American attack in Iraq. Sources in the Air Force told Ha'aretz that this deployment was planned a long time ago, and is designed to get the forces accustomed with the equipment and the terrain so that in case of emergency, everything would go smoothly.

In the last two years, the residents of the region waged a campaign against the IDF and the defense establishment, arguing that a permanent deployment of the batteries there would expose them to dangerous radiation. The parties eventually agreed that the IDF would only deploy there in an emergency.
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