Israeli F-16 fighter jets are equipped to carry biological and chemical weapons manufactured at a secret plant near Tel Aviv, according to the Sunday Times of London. Israel denies that the plant at Nes Ziona manufactures such weapons. The report comes after Israel acknowledged last week that an El Al plane which crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was carrying a chemical that can be used to make nerve gas.
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