(New Republic) Janine Zacharia - While the Israeli public focuses on a missile attack from Iraq, Israeli security and terrorism experts quietly worry about a more sinister prospect: that Saddam could equip Palestinian militants with deadly biological pathogens that, if disbursed clandestinely, could go undetected until scores of people fall ill. Today Saddam has a strategic asset that wasn't available during the Gulf War: a militant Palestinian population willing, even eager, to die in the fight against the Jewish state.
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