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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CVJ who wrote (128127)	2/19/2001 11:11:40 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 769667

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20 2001 Attack on Iraq Israelis rush to service gas masks FROM SAM KILEY IN JERUSALEM ISRAELIS flocked to have their gas masks serviced yesterday after Iraq threatened to retaliate for Friday’s airstrikes.Depots reported a 100 per cent increase in the numbers wanting their equipment refurbished and new filters fitted. Although Ehud Barak, the Prime Minister, and his generals said that they did not believe Iraq posed any immediate threat to Israel, Israeli citizens were not taking any chances. Nor were they putting much faith in the abilities of American-built Patriot “anti-missile missiles” to protect them. Israeli and American servicemen yesterday began a five-day exercise to test the missiles, which were designed to shoot down Iraqi Scud rockets. “I’m sure that Saddam has got something horrible in his factories and it will only take one Scud to kill huge numbers of us with a biological weapon,” Ronit Millstein, a 23-year-old shop assistant, said. “I’m getting my gas mask organised whatever, Patriots or no Patriots.” In Gaza yesterday, Palestinians continued their demonstrations in support of President Saddam Hussein, chanting “Saddam, we wait for your rockets to hit Tel Aviv” and burning Israeli flags.