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Emergency workers inoculated; Israelis buy more air filters, tranquilizers.
2002 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Jerusalem hospital has begun inoculating emergency workers against smallpox in preparation for a possible attack by Iraq, officials said September 18, 2002, amid reports that sales of air filters, tranquilizers and bottled water are up across Israel.
Israel's deputy defense minister, Weizman Shiri, said Israel is well-prepared for an Iraqi attack with chemical or biological weapons.
"I say with my hand on my heart, not just to calm everyone, that the state of Israel is ready," Shiri said. "It would be easier for them [the Iraqis] to carry out a [successful] biological attack on even the United States than Israel."
The government decided in August to inoculate 15,000 emergency workers against smallpox. On September 17, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv began the inoculations, at a rate of 30 people per day, hospital officials said.
During the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles against Israel, causing damage but few casualties. Israeli experts say they do not know if Iraq possesses chemical or biological weapons, but the possibility cannot be ruled out.
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said September 18 he supported an American attack on Iraq, but Israel wanted to keep a low profile in the dispute.
"We greatly respect the decisions of the [U.S.] administration and identify with the intention to hit one of the ...
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