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Israel Harasses Wazzani Workers with Magnified Wolf CriesWednesday 09 Oct 2002
author: An Nahar Newspaper
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Israel Harasses Wazzani Workers with Magnified Wolf Cries
Israel is using powerful loudspeakers to magnify prolonged wolf cries along the border with Lebanon every night in a fresh scare-mongering campaign against workers on the Wazzani diversion project.
Parachute flares also illuminate the night skies for Israeli jets to stage thunderous supersonic flights with an umbrella of Apachi gunships hovering overhead. But work on the project never stopped for a moment, officials said.
President Bush has issued a summons to Ariel Sharon to report to the White House next week, reportedly to coerce him into non-violence in South Lebanon or against Iraq before or during the planned invasion of Baghdad.
The Israeli media reported the summons as Sharon hurled a new threat of military action to stop Lebanon from diverting Wazzani water to meet the drinking and irrigation needs of 100,000 local inhabitants.
Several Tel Aviv newspapers said Bush would "bribe Sharon into being a good boy" by pledging to notify him of the U.S. anti-Saddam offensive 72 hours in advance.
Bush will also promise to take out Iraq's Scud missile bases in the first waves of aerial and naval bombardment to avert a Saddam retaliation against the Jewish state.
As for Lebanon, Bush is pledging to redouble diplomatic efforts to work out a settlement based on making the Beirut government accept a limitation of the water usage for only drinking purposes.
"Israel cannot accept this project and the United States is aware of our position. The Israeli army will strike at the right moment," Sharon told his security cabinet in Jerusalem Sunday shortly before the Washington summons was announced.
An Nahar reported on Monday that Lebanon has postponed until Wednesday a test-run of water-pumping equipment on the Wazzani, citing technical reasons for delaying the operation that had been scheduled for Monday.
Beirut, Updated 08 Oct 02, 13:46