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To: TobagoJack who wrote (354)10/18/2002 5:23:37 AM
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"Hezbollah trying to obtain long-range missiles"

By Aluf Benn

haaretz.co.il

WASHINGTON - The Hezbollah is trying to get a ground-to-ground missile with a 300-kilometer range, that could hit anywhere in Israel north of Be'er Sheva, a senior Israeli source said yesterday in conversations with American media commentators.

The Hezbollah currently has Fajr 5 missiles that can reach Haifa and the source said that the situation on the northern border "is very dangerous."

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's conversations with administration officials included concern that the Hezbollah might exploit an American assault on Iraq to provoke Israel. According to the senior source, the Americans brought up the scenario. Sharon discussed the Lebanon issue with CIA Director George Tenet, and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The senior source said that if Israel is attacked from Lebanon, Israel's response would be "proportional."

He said that in case of such an attack, Israel would regard Syria as responsible. "We will not initiate an action against Syria and do not want war. If there is an escalation in the north, it is because the Syrians allow it," he said, adding that the American administration was cautioning Syria on this account.

President George W. Bush raised the Hezbollah issue in his press conference with Sharon, saying that the U.S. does not expect the Hezbollah "to attack our friends. That would be a terrorist action and we will fight terror everywhere. We have not changed our policy toward countries that harbor terrorists."
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