Israel Ready To Attack Iran With US Warplanes

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To:                     r_rozoff@xxxxxxxxx

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ds/Qisrael-iran-nuclear.REcK_DOB.html

Agence France-Presse
October 11, 2003

Israel ready to launch preemptive strike on nuclear
sites in Iran

-Complete destruction of the targets by F-16 fighter
bombers was deemed achievable by Mossad....

BERLIN, Oct 11 (AFP) - Israel's spy agency Mossad has
drawn up preemptive attack plans on six sites in Iran
it suspects are being used to prepare nuclear weapons,
Der Spiegel magazine says in its Monday edition,
citing Israeli security officials.

A special Mossad unit received orders two months ago
to prepare plans for attacks on half-a-dozen targets,
the magazine said.

Complete destruction of the targets by F-16 fighter
bombers was deemed achievable by Mossad, it said.

Israel, which is accused by Arab neighbours of
possessing nuclear weapons of its own, has come to
regard Iran as its chief military threat since the
downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic
Energy Agency, has imposed an October 31 deadline on
Iran to prove it is not secretly developing nuclear
weapons and also urged it to suspend enriching
uranium, which the United States claims could be used
to make nuclear bombs.


__________________________________


~~~~~~~
PLEASE clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.