Word: antiaircraft
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...against Saddam Hussein. Turkey, which has already cut off key Iraqi oil pipelines, is in the better position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days of the crisis, Baghdad pointedly warned Turkey not to tamper with...
...swept from the sky before American bombers could operate freely. Iraqi Mirages and MiGs, armed with air-to-air missiles, would take their toll of attacking U.S. F-15 and F-14 interceptors. Air-defense missiles would probably down some B-52 and F-111 bombers. Thousands of antiaircraft guns ringing missile launchers, military bases and nuclear and chemical plants would destroy some low-flying F-16 and A-6 attack bombers. Once the shooting war began, the U.S. would have to go all the way in order to liberate Kuwait and eliminate Iraq as a threat, and that would...
...Iraq war. The actual costs might not be quite that disastrous; they would in any case depend on a string of variables so long -- (the length of the war, number of troops involved, whether chemical weapons are used, intensity of air raids, accuracy of Iraqi missiles and antiaircraft fire, extent of damage to oil wells barely begin the list) -- that they cannot be predicted with anything remotely resembling precision. But though war might become inevitable, two factors should give pause to the most fervent of American hawks...
Genscher's roots help explain his passion for unification. Born in Halle in 1927, Genscher was drafted into Hitler's military at age 15 and manned the radar for antiaircraft guns; after the war his hometown became a part of East Germany, and in 1952 he fled to West Germany. Since the early 1970s, when travel restrictions between East and West Germany were eased, he has regularly made visits to Halle, keeping in touch with friends and family as well as with the mood in the East...
...passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an antiaircraft gun, even missiles...