ISRAEL

Times of India: Israeli general says Iraq war has boosted security

REUTERS [ SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2003 01:34:29 PM ]

JERUSALEM: Israel's military intelligence chief said on Saturday the
ousting of Saddam Hussein had removed a major strategic threat to the
Jewish state and put pressure on its two enemy neighbours, Syria and
Lebanon. "It is a new Middle East," Major-General Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash
told Israel's Channel 10 television. "There is no Iraqi military which
can
pitch in on the eastern front, so the potential for attack on Israel is
small. There is no eastern front," he said.