Hundreds of dancing Israeli youngsters had a blast under a mockup of an Iraqi Scud missile at a party in a Tel Aviv disco last Thursday.

The celebration, replete with dancers in gas masks and a performer dressed as Saddam Hussein, was held against the backdrop of fears Baghdad will strike at Israel if the United States attacks Iraq in the crisis over U.N. weapons inspections.

The Ku Club advertised the festivities as an "anthrax party," a dark reference to a deadly biological agent which U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced.

(c) Reuters