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...Stealth fighter-bombers located their target in the 4 a.m. darkness over Baghdad. Their laser-guided, 2,000-lb. bombs hit their mark with pinpoint accuracy. They cut through 12 ft. of reinforced concrete and exploded, peeling away the protective cover and destroying the bunker...
...perfect example of the kind of precise, high-technology air war the allies have conducted against Iraq. It was also a tragedy: the bunker was filled with Iraqi civilians who had taken refuge there from nighttime raids on the capital. But U.S. officials insisted that there had been no mistake and the bunker was, in fact, a military communications center. "From the military point of view, nothing went wrong," said Brigadier General Richard Neal, the briefing officer in Saudi Arabia. "The target was hit as designated...
...recent wars most civilian casualties have come among those who have had the misfortune to live near military installations and to be hit by badly aimed bombs. That has probably occurred in Baghdad as well, but not this time. The dispute here is whether the bunker was an ordinary civilian bomb shelter, as the Iraqis insist, or a former shelter recently converted to military use, as the U.S. command maintains...
...intelligence analysis U.S. officials offered last week to buttress their case reveals a great deal about the painstaking methods they use in the air war in the gulf. Preparations for the strike on the bunker began months before the bombs actually fell. The CIA, for example, interviewed contractors and workers, including Koreans and Pakistanis, who constructed the bunker and about 20 others like it in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq...
...building showed at least two additions: a newly hardened roof and communications equipment that was protected against the electromagnetic effects of nuclear blasts. The satellites also snapped pictures of military vehicles parked outside and men in uniform entering and exiting the building. A wire-mesh fence surrounded the bunker; its roof had been painted with camouflage and fake bomb holes...