Serious security leak reveals Israel is testing "long range missiles".
Crusty the Clown | 06.11.2003 02:00
Extract from, and link to, an Israeli newspaper article about a leaked video of a long range missile test.
It is virtually certain that Israel already has a deployable arsenal of more than 200 nuclear warheads (more than Britain), together with various delivery systems which include three german-built Israeli modified nuclear-capable submarines.
The Israeli govt refuses to confirm or deny these facts. No international nuclear treaty has ever been signed. No international inspection or verification has ever been allowed. Or even demanded. Which is strange, isn't it ?
It is virtually certain that Israel already has a deployable arsenal of more than 200 nuclear warheads (more than Britain), together with various delivery systems which include three german-built Israeli modified nuclear-capable submarines.
The Israeli govt refuses to confirm or deny these facts. No international nuclear treaty has ever been signed. No international inspection or verification has ever been allowed. Or even demanded. Which is strange, isn't it ?
link: 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/357650.html
extract (copyright Haraatz):
"Israel Aircraft Industries was frantically engaged in damage control Wednesday after an unprecedented security lapse allowed a Channel 10 television technician to capture an internal screening of a secret missile test via an ordinary satellite dish.
The technician said that he captured the unencrypted footage via an ordinary household dish with a one-meter diameter - the kind owned by the tens of thousands in Israel and by millions throughout the Middle East.......
...In a terse statement released Wednesday, IAI said that it "fired a long-range and accurate artillery projectile in a test conducted off the coast of Israel. Not all the goals of the test were achieved." It added that the projectile was developed on the assumption that there is a global market for an accurate, long-range weapon....
..Malam, the IAI division that conducted the test, is also the maker of the Arrow anti-missile missile, the Shavit satellite launcher and according to foreign reports, the Jericho surface-to-surface missile.
The presence at the launch of high-level officials - including CEO Moshe Keret, Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazy and commander of the ground forces Major General Yiftah Ron Tal - seems to indicate that the defense establishment had high hopes for the missile."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/357650.html extract (copyright Haraatz):
"Israel Aircraft Industries was frantically engaged in damage control Wednesday after an unprecedented security lapse allowed a Channel 10 television technician to capture an internal screening of a secret missile test via an ordinary satellite dish.
The technician said that he captured the unencrypted footage via an ordinary household dish with a one-meter diameter - the kind owned by the tens of thousands in Israel and by millions throughout the Middle East.......
...In a terse statement released Wednesday, IAI said that it "fired a long-range and accurate artillery projectile in a test conducted off the coast of Israel. Not all the goals of the test were achieved." It added that the projectile was developed on the assumption that there is a global market for an accurate, long-range weapon....
..Malam, the IAI division that conducted the test, is also the maker of the Arrow anti-missile missile, the Shavit satellite launcher and according to foreign reports, the Jericho surface-to-surface missile.
The presence at the launch of high-level officials - including CEO Moshe Keret, Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazy and commander of the ground forces Major General Yiftah Ron Tal - seems to indicate that the defense establishment had high hopes for the missile."
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