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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (1379)	12/30/2001 10:13:27 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Monday, December 31, 2001 Tevet 16, 5762 Israel Time: 05:10 (GMT+2) Last update - 23:00 30/12/2001 Arafat says there is a 'truce' warns of 'limits to our patience' By DPA Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said late Sunday that there is a "truce" which the world should benefit from to establish peace in the Mideast region. "We took the decision to impose a truce ... and our brothers in Hamas and Islamic Jihad cooperated on it with us ... but if the plots by [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon continue ... there will be limits to our patience ... " Arafat said in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Cooperation (LBC). "We have responded to the calls by the world community to pave the way for peace talks and to stop the Israeli excuses but if the Israelis continues in their assassination and massacres against our people we will not be able to continue our silence," the Palestinian leader said. Hamas has agreed to temporarily stop its suicide attacks inside Israel. The Palestinian leader said talks are still underway between the Israelis and the Palestinian parties but there are as of yet "no tangible results." Referring to the convening of the Arab Summit in Beirut in March, the Palestinian leader said he will attend the parley and hold talks with Lebanese leaders. Arafat left Beirut with his PLO fighters in 1982 after the Israeli invasion to the country. "When I left Beirut then ... I said I was going to Palestine and I did come here despite all the obstacles that are facing me here," Arafat added. He promised all the Palestinian refugees living in the diaspora and the Arabs to come and pray in Jerusalem next Christmas and New Year. haaretzdaily.com

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (1379)	12/31/2001 2:16:33 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Vä multumesc ;) Happy and Prosperous New Year to All

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (1379)	12/31/2001 4:12:42 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

India Deploys Israeli Hi-Tech War Equipment in War Preparations Exclusive to DEBKAfile 31 December: The highly advanced Israeli-made weapons systems acquired by the Indian army in 2001 figured prominently in the tactical pros and cons of going to war, in New Delhi and Islamabad alike. Revealing this, DEBKAfile ’s military sources name the items imported from Israel as the Green Pine radar system, developed for Israel’s Arrow anti-missile missile, three electronic tracking and command centers and the Rafael version of the Popeye cruise missile. The war rhetoric on both sides eased slightly today after Pakistan detained 30 militants and shut down three terrorist organizations’ offices. However if war nonetheless erupts, Israeli electronic warfare and naval cruise missiles expert operators will be there on the spot and directly involved.. DEBKAfile’s Indian sources report that at the end of last week, as the war fever mounted, Israeli personnel engaged in constructing, maintenance and operating the new systems in Indian Kashmir and the northern sector of the Indian-Pakistani were evacuated with their families. They left behind a skeleton Israeli crew to keep the electronic systems running smoothly in the event of a flare-up, and a small contingent of Israel naval officers to show their Indian counterparts how to work the Popeye missiles (range 15000 km and capable of carrying nuclear warheads). Military experts in the United States, India and Pakistan hold the view that the presence of these systems in the Indian army has thus far held off a Pakistan pre-emptive strike against the Indian divisions before they take up their border deployments. A pre-emptive, or surprise assault would be the best chance for the numerically inferior Pakistani army, with its half million men, to throw the invasion plans of India’s 1.2 million strong army into disarray. Posted since last April in the western section of the Vale of Kashmir between the towns of Uri and Punch, the Green Pine radar’s strategic value is inestimable. It covers all of Pakistani’s military command centers and bases between Islamabad, the capital, and the Indian frontier. It also permits Indian surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear center at Kahuta and Sargodha, where Pakistan keeps its Shaheen missiles (capable of delivering nuclear warheads), a homemade version of the Chinese mobile M-11 missiles. According to DEBKAfile’s Indian sources, the three early warning stations built by Israel are located north of Ladakh, near the west Kashmir town of Kupwara opposite four strategic Pakistan Kashmiri towns of Kel, Skardu, Astor and Gilgit, and in the town of Kargil, opposite the seat of Pakistan’s Himalayan command centers in Kashmir, where the current troop buildup is centered. Those sources report additionally that since the outbreak of the Afghan War, in early October, the Indian supreme command has ordered its various services, especially the air force and missile units, to keep the Green Pine radar and the electronic early warning stations running round the clock, both as a vital war appurtenance of war and to drill the crew in real battle conditions. The Indian high command was consequently au fait of every detail of the Afghan War and various movements taking place in Western China and the eastern reaches of Central Asia. The Israeli Green Pine radar took to the field last May in the biggest nuclear exercise India ever conducted. Dubbed “Perfect Victory”, the exercise was designed to depict an Indian victory over Pakistan. The 50,000 and 120 warplanes taking part in the war games practiced deep forays into enemy territory and the takeover and demolition of enemy strategic installations. It was Green Pine’s first experience of a nuclear exercise. debka.com ________________________________________