Iraq has several dozen missiles that could reach Israel, according to a classified Pentagon military assessment published in the Washington Times. The missiles are capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads. Meanwhile, the United States decided to hold biological-weapons antidotes and chemical- weapons sensors in American warehouses instead of shipping them to Israel.
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