Enter Email[Join]<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/> News Oil-gas platform (illustration). Oil-gas platform (illustration). Wikimedia Commons Site Search <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/images/search_icon.jpg> Published: 06/02/11, 7:26 PM / Last Update: 06/02/11, 7:56 PM Syria to Target Gas Rigs in Next War, Warns Vilnai by Gil Ronen Follow Israel news on <http://twitter.com/IsraelNewsStory> Twitter and <http://www.facebook.com/pages/IsraelNationalNews/102510354100> Facebook. Minister of Home Front Defense Matan Vilnai described an exceedingly harsh scenario of the next war between Israel and its Arab neighbors Wednesday. Speaking to the heads of vital industries, Vilnai said that the next war will last at least a month and that Syria will target Israeli offshore gas fields. Details of Vilnai's speech were published by Globes. In the next round of fighting, he said, hundreds of missiles with half-ton warheads will strike central Israel daily. In a conflagration with Hamas, the terror organization "will try very hard to hit Tel Aviv," he assessed. "Not everything will reach here [Tel Aviv] and most will fall on the way, but some rockets will strike here too." Accurate Syrian missiles will target Israeli economic interests like the offshore gas fields, he warned. "The Syrians do not need to fire dozens of missiles at these facilities," Vilnai explained. "Their systems are accurate enough that by firing a few missiles - everything goes up in the air. The offshore facilities are a soft underbelly." "The Arabs know how to learn lessons," said Vilnai. "They are not cowards and they do not run away like we were all taught in the past. They know they cannot defeat the IDF in the field of battle so they intend to hit the heartland with missiles." "We need to prepare for a war with Syria, with Hizbullah and with Hamas," he told the industrialists. "In an all-out war, most of your employees have been called up to the various fronts, and simultaneously, hundreds of missiles fall in central Israel. Not thousands, hundreds. We checked this and measured it. We calculated how many missiles they have, how many we can destroy in attacks we initiate, how many we can intercept in mid-flight and more. They will fire thousands of rockets and missiles daily and hundreds will hit central Israel. And this will take at least a month, including Fridays and Saturdays, without rest." The minister's meeting with the heads of industry was coordinated with Industrialists' Association chief Shraga Brosh, in preparation for a large scale home front drill that will include the vital industries. The drill - Turning Point 5 -- will take place in three weeks' time and will include nighttime air raid sirens. <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137702> Turning Point 4 took place in 2010, and <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131625> Turning Point 3 in 2009. Both were the largest civil defense drills held in Israel to date. (IsraelNationalNews.com) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
