On Israeli, American missile exercise

The Israeli daily Haartez said on Tuesday that the US and Israel made in January a joint large scale exercise for al-Heits and patriots anti-missile missiles system.

The paper added that this exercise was made, in parallel to the Iraqi scenario in launching ground- to ground Iraqi missiles of Skud type towards the Israeli settlements.

The paper added that the Israeli security circles do not rule out that the next aim of the US in the context of its war against terrorism is making pressures on Iraq on the hope to topple the rule of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.