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NATO SUB ON SPY MISSION OFF ISRAELI COAST


TEL AVIV [MENL] -- A submarine from a NATO navy was said to have entered Israeli territorial waters on a reconnaissance mission.

Military sources said the submarine came from what appeared to be a NATO navy that patrols the eastern Mediterranean. The sources said the submarine entered three miles into Israeli territorial waters off the coast of Nahariya before it was detected. The submarine then left Israeli waters.

"The speed and signature of the submarine were that of an advanced NATO navy vessel," an Israeli military source said. "We are very disturbed by this because this is not the first time that this has happened."

Several military sources, acknowledging that they did not have sufficient evidence, suggested that the intruding vessel was a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine. They ruled out the possibility that the submarine belonged to Iran or an Arab or Soviet-bloc navy.

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