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...actions, statements and threats that have reinforced his reputation for ruthlessness and provoked disturbing questions about his ultimate designs. "He is playing on an old theme; call it constructive craziness," says Mark Heller of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. "If you act like a loose cannon, people tend to treat you with kid gloves...
...about his militaristic intentions provoked Saddam to warn, "We will let our fire eat half of Israel if it tries to wage anything against Iraq." A week later British officials impounded another Iraqi shipment, this one containing what defense experts thought was the barrel of the world's largest cannon...
...tests conducted at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, the GAO discovered that the 94-lb. powder bags used in the Iowa's 16-in. guns could ignite if rammed into the breech at high speed. More significantly, traces of calcium and chlorine found in the cannon did not prove that the blast had been set off by a saboteur's detonator; similar residues were detected in the gun turrets on two other battleships. After confirming the GAO tests, the Navy suspended live cannon fire on all four of its battleships and reopened its investigation of the Iowa tragedy. Physical evidence...
President Saddam Hussein's quest to turn Iraq into the Middle East's military superpower continues. British customs officials at the northeastern port city of Middlesbrough seized eight Iraq-bound crates that contained what Defense Ministry experts say could be the barrel of the world's largest cannon, capable of firing conventional, nuclear and chemical shells...
Both Baghdad and the firm in Sheffield, England, that manufactured the steel casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...