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Iraq planned bioterror attack on Israel: It appears that Saddam had a plan to use biological weapons against Israel early in the Gulf War, but couldn't carry out the scheme.

This according to a secret 1992 CIA dispatch made public over the weekend by the National Security Archive, a research organization.

The document says that Iraq sent three MiG-21 planes to bomb Israeli targets with regular bombs to check whether they were able to penetrate the Israeli air defense system. At the second stage, three more MiGs armed with conventional weaponry were to be sent to Israel as a diversion, together with a Sukhoi airplane armed with biological weapons. But the operation failed during the first stage, when the three MiGs were downed over the Persian Gulf a short time after takeoff.

Tough luck, Saddam!

posted by Howard @ 12/24/2002 07:01:40 AM