WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The Palestinian Authority has acquired anti-aircraft
missiles, a report says.The report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said the PA
has Soviet-era missiles. They include the SA-7 and SA-14."Palestinians already have SA-7s and Strella missiles," the report,
authored by Gal Luft, said. "It would not be technically difficult to shoot
down a civilian airliner with several hundred people on board. The threat of
an airplane being shot down from the ground is just as dangerous as that of
a terrorist boarding a plane, and it is a threat shared by Israel and the
United States."Hizbullah is believed to have supplied the anti-aircraft missiles to the
PA. Hizbullah has acknowledged its huge missile arsenal along the
Israeli border as part of what Lebanese sources term an
unprecedented buildup.
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