- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior
Iraqi army general, ratcheting up his country's propaganda assault on Israel,
has said Iraqi artillery units could hit targets deep inside Israel if
they were moved to a site near the Jewish state's border. Lieutenant-General
Yassin Taha Mohammed, head of artillery units, said that Iraq was able
to upgrade its mortars and missile launchers to give them a range of about
40 km (24 miles), which would not violate U.N. arms control restrictions.
"Our artillery forces are ready any time to hit targets deep inside
the Zionist entity (Israel) whenever we are ordered to do so," he
told Iraq's weekly al-Rafidain newspaper on Tuesday. "We have been
able to improve the range of mortars to reach as far as 40 km (24 miles)...and
improve munitions," he said.
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- President Saddam Hussein has called on Arab countries
bordering Israel to give his troops a piece of land close enough to attack
Israel with his artillery. He has also said Iraq is ready to put an end
to Israel. Baghdad, theoretically at war with Israel, fired Scud missiles
from its own territory at Israeli cities during the 1991 Gulf War.
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- Another Iraqi newspaper, al-Jumhouriya, said on Tuesday
that Baghdad had proof that its anti-aircraft missiles had hit one of a
group of Western planes patrolling the no-fly zone in northern Iraq on
January 24. The paper said Iraqis living in the area where the plane was
hit saw an aircraft on fire and columns of smoke coming from it. Jumhouriya
said Iraqi radar had sighted several U.S. aircraft flying in the area later
to rescue the plane's pilot. Iraq frequently alleges it has hit Western
aircraft flying over its territory, claims which are routinely denied by
Washington and London.
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- U.S. and British planes patrol no-fly zones set up to
protect Muslim Shi'ites in south Iraq and a Kurdish enclave in the north
from possible attack by Baghdad's forces. Baghdad does not recognise their
right to impose the no-fly zones. The aircraft frequently bomb targets
in the two zones, and have intensified their attacks since Baghdad stepped
up its defiance of the restrictions two years ago.
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Such statements from Saddam should be immediately met with direct, concise
and unrelenting brutal force. The psycho has not learned his lesson, and
that's the fault of Bush sr. in the Desert Storm pseudo-war. There should
never have been left a Saddam Hussein after that. It is simply time to
strike, swift and hard, and utterly destroy the Iraqi war machine. If Iran
backs them, obliterate them also. There is no reason for Israel, or any
other state, to live under continual threats of annihilation. If we don't
do something about Saddam now, we may see a true Armageddon later when
he has built up even stronger nuclear forces.
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