ISRAEL: Iraq missile strikes unlikely

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Mar 15 2003 (IPS) - Israeli army on Saturday denied reports that Baghdad has moved medium-range rockets from eastern to southern Iraq, within striking distance of the Jewish state.

Israel Radio, citing officials within the Israeli army, said that a report by the US-based Fox News television network on Iraqi missile deployments was false and may have been politically motivated.

According to the Radio, Israeli experts consider it very unlikely that Iraq could mount missile strikes – as it did in the 1991 Gulf War – in the event of a US-led invasion of Iraq.