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Politics : Middle East Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (642)	1/24/2002 5:23:02 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

The "Bulldozer" brings peace to the Middle East: thetimes.co.uk Israel put on alert as spy chief predicts worsening onslaught "ISRAELI cities were on maximum alert for terrorist reprisals yesterday after the Army’s intelligence chief warned parliament to expect attacks “the likes of which we have not seen before”. In Jerusalem, two women died from their wounds overnight after a Palestinian terrorist opened fire in the main commercial thoroughfare, wounding 14 others. Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and police on patrol later often outnumbered ordinary pedestrians on the streets. One of the women, cut down during the height of the Tuesday afternoon rush hour, was identified as Sarah Hamberger, 78. The other, whose name was not released, was 56. “Security officials are preparing for an all-out escalation by terrorists, and all arms of the security forces have been placed on heightened alert,” Israel Radio reported. Violence spread to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters fired at Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms region for the first time since October. Israel retaliated with shellfire and attacks by jet aircraft in which at least six air-to-surface missiles were fired on suspected Hezbollah positions. Ehud Olmert, Jerusalem’s right-wing Mayor, said: “This is a war. It is a painful war. We are going to win this war, but it will not be easy and it will not be in a short time.” The Israeli prediction of growing violence came from Major-General Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, after a Hamas declaration of “all-out war” on Tuesday. He told Knesset deputies: “The coming period will see more serious terror attacks than we have been used to up to now in cities throughout Israel.” General Zeevi-Farkash, the new chief of military Intelligence, who has been in his role for less than a month, refused to go into more detail about the type of terror attacks being planned. "