ISRAELIS IN IRAQ: Jane's Foreign Report breaks this interesting development:
"While politicians and media are discussing the prospect of war with Iraq, the Israelis are taking action. Foreign Report has been told exclusively that Israeli special forces are already operating reconnaissance patrols in western Iraq. These operations are carried out secretly by Israel's best-trained commandos, the 'Sayeret Matkal'. Their mission: to find and identify places used by, or likely to be used by, Iraqi Scud missile-launchers."
The
Jerusalem Post details the Jane's report: "The newsletter stated that 'neither Israel nor the US has a clue about what, if anything, Saddam Hussein is hiding,' and claimed it was this 'ignorance' that prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to assign the elite commando unit to carry out the job."
Jane's also reports that Israel undertook this mission without the knowledge of the United States. That I find hard to believe.
