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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (60112)	8/13/2004 5:15:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793926

I don't think Iran is an enormous conventional threat to Israel. Israel has much less people but it has a much better trained and equipped military, and also Iraq is in the way (and currently Iraq contains has over 100 thousand American soldiers). But Iran is a threat or potential to Israel in ways other then invasion. The most serious being nuclear weapons, but chemical or bio weapons could also be devastating. Short of that they could step up their support of anti-Israeli terrorists and perhaps launch long range (by Middle East standards, they wouldn't be ICBMs) conventionally tipped missiles against Israel as a terror weapon (they wouldn't be very militarily effective, but terror weapons don't have to be). Tim