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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (116)	11/29/2002 9:59:30 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 15987

I guess business is business, right?? Now Kuwaiti parents can thank Jews for protecting them from Saddam's chemical weapons: Israel agrees to sell gas masks to Kuwait for civilian distribution By Amnon Barzilai, Ha& 8217;aretzCorrespondent Israel is prepared to sell 2 million gas mask to Kuwait, which will be distributed to its citizens in case of an Iraqi attack on the country, the Defense Ministry has decided after consolations with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Foreign Ministry. If the $ 82 million deal comes through, the Shalon company from Kiryat Gat will supply the gas masks. The contacts for the gas mask deal were carried out by mediators and Kuwaiti businessman who approached the Shalon company – the sole manufacturer of Symplex gas masks provided to all Israeli residents. The security exports department of the Defense Ministry allowed Shalon to sell gas masks to Kuwait after a series of talks. Kuwait’s interest in gas masks is due to its fear of being attacked with chemical weapons by Iraq in case of a U.S. attack on Baghdad. Defense Ministry officials said that gas masks are considered as weapons only if they are used by military forces, bus because Kuwait will distribute the masks to civilians, the masks will be considered to be civilian equipment. Ha’aretz discovered that it is doubtful whether Shalon will be able to supply the masks to Kuwait on time. The Home Front command recently received a special budget to buy 300,000 gas masks to prevent a shortage of masks in the command’s emergency stores, and Shalon had to hire additional manpower to manufacture this amount. Sources in the company said the deal was not secured, and that it is possible that Shalon will manufacture only some of the masks and Kuwait will have to find other sources of supply.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (116)	11/29/2002 12:18:56 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

They fired two SA-7 heat-seeking missiles at a point when the jet was emitting maximum heat output during takeoff...[y]et they missed[.] Hearing that was amazing to me as well, Hawk. I remember the accuracy of the similar Stinger (or the older Redeye, if you remember that sucker) being described to me as practically absolute against aircraft below 1000 feet, especially if taking off, landing, or flying deliberately (gunships, transports conducting airborne operations, etc). More unbelievable, in fact, is that the aircraft was missed by both of two such weapons fired at it, leading me to suspect that if those missiles were - as I suspect may be the case - captured by Afghan fighters in Afghanistan or Chechnya: perhaps age, bad storage, and/or rough handling has (quite luckily) affected their accuracy. LPS5