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To: goldsnow who wrote (12618)	6/5/1998 3:40:00 AM
From: Alex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116814

Pakistan Armed Forces Placed On Red Alert When Israeli Jets Landed in India Strike Against Nuclear Facilities Foreseen ISLAMABAD: Pakistan armed forces were put on "Red Alert" on midnight, May 27, expecting an Israeli airstrike on its nuclear installations when some Israeli jets landed at India's forward operating base (FOB) located close to Pakistani borders. A senior official confirmed the "May 27 midnight development" which was followed by a 150-minute swift operation by Pakistan Foreign Office, the Prime Minister's Secretariat, Military Headquarters and headquarters of intelligence agencies (for security purposes only) to contact "top guys" at the important capitals of the world. "The landing of Israeli F-16s and F-15s at an Indian FOB manifested clearly that India was in league with Israel to attack Pakistan's nuclear installations," according to the senior official. "These planes require only three minutes to reach Islamabad." Pakistan, he said, did not use it as a "bluff" to malign any body, but in fact the Israeli jets equipped with state-of-the-art technology were on a mission to repeat its airstrike known as "Two Minutes Over Baghdad." Recent international reports confirmed multiple Israeli-Indian cooperation, specially in the field of nuclear and Hindu-Jewish force cooperation. London-based 'The Times' in its latest issue confirmed that "Israel and India have engaged in much more nuclear co-operation than previously disclosed." The Times' correspondent in Jerusalem wrote: Cooperation in missile technology stretches back over two decades and repeated private exchanges between nuclear scientists from both countries were kept secret. Hard evidence of Israeli-Indian nuclear cooperation was increased by recent disclosures in Tel Aviv newspapers that A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, India's nuclear weapons hero, visited Israel at least twice in 1996 and last year. The reports were accompanied by the disclosure that Israel's Chief of Staff cancelled a visit to India this week because of fears of "the wrong interpretation." The close ties between Dr Kalam, head of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation, and his Israeli counterparts have suggested parallels with Israel's secret co-operation with South Africa in at least one nuclear test in the late 1970s. Dr Kalam's team carried out the five Indian nuclear tests and announced that work was progressing on the next version of the Agni (fire) missile, with a range of 1,550 miles, enough to hit Beijing. One Israeli paper reported: "Dr Kalam visited Israel several times while senior Israeli scientists went on reciprocal visits to India, according to a senior Indian scientists." The paper also reported that Professor Brahma Challany of Delhi's Centre for Policy Research, had visited Israel last month. Explaining the cancellation of the Chief of Staff's trip, it said: "The sense was that a visit in the wake of the nuclear tests might grant a degree of credibility to the baseless reports that Israel and India were cooperating on nuclear arms." With Pakistan putting its missiles ready to counter the Israeli airstrike, 'The Times' reported that an Israeli F-16 aircraft was spotted on a reconnaissance mission over Pakistan hours before it detonated the first of its six atomic tests last week. In 1981, in a same way Israeli jets destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. Israeli media reports said that Pakistan's anxiety arose after an F-16 was twice reported to have been spotted in its airspace. It was an Israeli jet, as India does not have F-16s, but part of a force co-operating with India to launch a pre-emptive strike. Pakistan has acquired a credible information that Israeli jets were using Indian bases. However, western defence experts, according to 'The Times', did not rule out the possibility that Israeli reconnaissance aircraft could have flown from a home base to Pakistan, using mid-air refuelling, without being seen by radar along the route. The paper said: As Saudi Arabia now has low-level radar systems, which it did not have in 1981 when eight Israeli bombers flew below radar level across Jordan and Saudi Arabia and took the same route home with the help of mid-air refuelling, and Israel would be unlikely to risk the overland route. The alternative route would be to fly at low level out of Eilot Sea before reaching Pakistan. Paul Beaver of Jane's Information Group said the Israeli Air Force two-seater F-16 had been equipped with an advanced reconnaissance system which at 45,000ft could take photographs of targets 50 miles away. The equipment is so sophisticated that it could read the lettering on the side of a truck parked at a Pakistani nuclear facility. The News International Pakistan, June 5, 1998

To: goldsnow who wrote (12618)	6/5/1998 6:41:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116814

Now that you informed us,I bet he was making an instead joke.. had this weird thought last night that the US government could even be buying Russian bonds to help support the government for the good of world economic system..(nothing nefarious just insurance).. read this one..probably sincere..from Japanese businessman.. biz.yahoo.com again doesn't sound so dire..does it? heard Bill Seidman on CNBC say that those low low interest rates in Japan were to help out Japanese banks get their books better by borrowing low and buying the US treasuries..had forgotten that one.. so if Japanese clean out their banking problems..bond yields here might start going up.. I am beginning to think that gold will just move with impending inflation...too much smoke and mirrors among world governments.. also since our country is 85 percent service..I am beginning to think only so much deflation can be imported here.. the hacheting(refuse to use that that d word for obvious reasons)is now both continuing but also backfiring..the backfiring suggests that management is going to be in position to demand higher wages... only domestic stocks will probably take over now from the multinationals..I can't be that negative on the market..(I am just a little person so not a contrarian indicator..) bullish on gold now for the traditional reasons..(what a journey!)