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Israel Minister: Prepare for Iranian missiles

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 23 August 2006
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Minister: Prepare for Iranian missiles

Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan calls on home front to prepare bomb shelters, protected rooms ahead of possible attack by Islamic Republic

Ynetnews
Published:
08.22.06, 11:53

Minister of Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan told Israel Radio Tuesday that Israel faced the possibility of "an Iranian missile attack," and called on the home front to prepare bomb shelters and protected rooms in case of an Iranian attack.

"The Iranians have said very clearly that if they come under attack, their primary target would be Israel," Eitan said.

Iran is due to give its reply on Tuesday to a package backed by six world powers that aims to end a nuclear standoff with the West, but Iranian officials say Iran does not accept the key demand to suspend uranium enrichment.

Western diplomats said refusing to suspend the work that has both military and civilian uses would be tantamount to rejecting the package of incentives offered in return.

Meanwhile, Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office, Raanan Dinur, told journalists he was planning to submit recommendations to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on preparations for the home front for the next war.

His comments suggested the recommendations would be obligatory since the level of surprise in which the home front was caught in the last war "was similar to the level of surprise of the Yom Kippur war."

With that, Dinur refused to define the geography of what will form the next home front.

Dinur sees a possibility of a fusion of the Home Front Command and the Ministry of Defense in the next war, and said that local authorities would have to strengthen their emergency systems.

Shimon Shiffer and Reuters contributed to this report
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3294241,00.html

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  • The world is more then half filled with fools with the other half nothing more then blind followers. I hope the day comes soon that people start to see through the Neocons and what their plan is. Wouldn’t GW love to see an Iranian Missile attack on Israel.
    Play into his hands you people, and even your God won’t be able to help you.
    Quit reading the newspapers and listening to your so called leaders. Find a free Library and do some reading on nucular weapons and other weapons that the US Army has. What you read will be old and out dated so just try to guess what they have now. A bomb shelter will offer only a spot to be buried in. If one survived, and damn few would what kind of life would be left for you. The United States is so vast that more then enough people will survive and if that ever happens you can be sure they won’t spend much time deciding what to do with people that act different to them.

  • May I have your attention please, May I have your attention please. Will the real slim shady please stand up. I repeat will the real slim shady please stand up. We’re gonna have a problem here.