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October 29, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4241

Israeli Special Forces Go on a Scud Hunt

(Front Page Magazine/Sunday Times - UK) - Israel's Unit 262, the equivalent of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS), is on a mission in western Iraq to protect Israel from missile strikes. The Israelis are understood to have deployed two teams of 24 commandos, that have detected at least one Scud base. The commandos hide by day and operate at night, using data from the Israeli spy satellite Ofek-5, which transmits images of Iraqi targets to Israel every 60 minutes. As another precaution, Israeli air force officers are working with their Jordanian counterparts to detect low-level Iraqi planes flying towards Israel.

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