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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
A Balance Of Terror
Arises In The Middle East
HELEN DAVIS
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VISA
srael's obsessive concern
with its domestic political
crises . the inability of
the major political blocs to
form a government, the
power of the minority re-
ligious groups, electoral
reform, the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict — has
tended to deflect national at:
tention away from the
greater external threat that
is closing in on the Jewish
state.
For while the competing
political egos bicker and jos-
tle for position in Israel's co-
alition bazaar, the Arab
world has been hard at work
acquiring a dazzling array of
terrifying weaponry which,
they believe, will provide an
appropriate response to
Israel's perceived nuclear
deterrent.
Today, a veritable um-
brella of chemical and
biological weapons,
augmented by sophisticated
ballistic missile systems, is
being erected around the
Jewish state: from Syria in
the north, from Iraq in the
east and, notwithstanding
the 1979 peace treaty, from
Egypt in the south. Addi-
tional, but by no means in-
consequential threats are
posed by Saudi Arabia, Iran
and Libya.
According to one London-
based defense analyst, the
Arab world is currently
engaged in an un-
precendented shopping
spree, collectively spending
some $100 million an hour
on developing, producing
and purchasing the most
sophisticated technology and
weapons that money can
buy.
The insatiable appetite for
newer, more advanced
weaponry is likely to be fed
by the winding down of the
Cold War and the expected
deep cuts in both Warsaw
Pact and NATO conventional
weapons in Europe.
This year alone, says the
defense analyst, the Pen-
tagon and the Kremlin are
expected to unload some
40,000 tanks, 35,000 ar-
mored personnel carriers,
30,000 artillery tubes and
2,600 attack helicopters at
bargain-basement prices.
Much of this equipment is
expected to be snapped up by
Middle East buyers, but the
Arab world appears to have
learned the bitter lesson de-
rived from a succession of
futile military confronta-
tions with Israel on the con-
ventional battlefield.
The focus of their military
ambitions now has shifted
emphatically to the acquisi-
tion of unconventional
weapons; to the push-button,
high-tech electronic
battlefield of the future.
While Israel possesses
medium-range Jericho and
Cruise missiles, Egypt,
Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran have
considerable supplies of
Soviet-made Frog-7 and
Scud B missiles.
In addition, Egypt has its
own Condor 2 missiles; Iraq,
its Badr 2000, Al-Abbas and
Al-Hussein missiles; Iran,
its Oghab missiles; Syria has
Soviet SS-21 missiles, and
Saudi Arabia has Chinese-
made CSS missiles.
All the Middle East states
that possess ground-to-
ground missiles also have
the capacity for arming
them with chemical
warheads, and all have the
ability to reach Israel's
major population centers.
It is not only chemical
weapons, however, that are
giving cause for concern
within Israel's military es-
tablishment. Last week it
was reported that Iraq had
established a biological
research laboratory in a
military facility south of
Baghdad where it has de-
veloped a range of biological
weapons, using anthrax,
cholera and typhoid
bacteria.
It has long been assumed
(though never officially con-
firmed) that Israel, alone
among Middle East states,
had developed and produced
the ultimate deterrent to
such awesome threats:
nuclear weapons. Now,
however, that monopoly is
about to be broken.
Nowhere are Middle East
military ambitions more
conspicuous than in the oil-
rich Iraq of Saddam Hus-
sein, whose hatred of Israel
and burning desire to lead
the Arab world have com-
bined to transform his coun-
try into a regional military
giant bristling with soph-
isticated weaponry and
military skills, acquired dur-
ing the eight-year-long Gulf
War.
Last month's seizure at
London's Heathrow Airport
of 40 U.S- made nuclear
triggering devices bound for
Baghdad has convinced
military planners that Iraq
is now on the brink of ac-
quiring its own nuclear
weapons, if it has not al-
ready done so.
Nor is Iraq the only Arab
state which is about to take
its place in the exclusive
nuclear club. Egypt, accor-
ding to a report last week in
the Bahrain daily, Al-Ayam,
is also close to achieving
nuclear capability.
The report, which was
widely quoted in the Egyp-
tian media, is believed to
have been inspired by Cairo
itself: "Without admitting
anything openly," noted one
Western military source,
"Egypt wants it to be known
that it is not being left