Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack - Aug. 16, 2002

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/18/world/main519037.shtml

(CBS) Israel is urging U.S. officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday.

Israeli intelligence officials have gathered evidence that Iraq is speeding up efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons, said Sharon aide Ranaan Gissin.

"Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose," Gissin said. "It will only give him (Saddam) more of an opportunity to accelerate his program of weapons of mass destruction."

The United States has been considering a military campaign against Iraq to remove Saddam from power, listing him as one of the world's main terrorist regimes. However, there is considerable world opposition to a U.S. strike.

As evidence of Iraq's weapons building activities, Israel points to an order Saddam gave to Iraq's Atomic Energy Commission last week to speed up its work, Gissin said.

"Saddam's going to be able to reach a point where these weapons will be operational," he said.

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1. Thank you. I notice some in the past have claimed in their...

...posts, that Israel had no part in the invasion of Iraq and even warned against it!

  No doubt they will also be the ones who will conveniently forget Olmert's calls that Iran "Threatens all of Western Civilization" a few years from now.

PB

[mom cat]

2. Thanks for setting the record straight.

[High Plains]

3. War birds of a feather...