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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French company, Lancelin-Barracuda, and an Italian competitor, M.V.M. A U.S. Defense Department official says Baghdad is even hiding missiles in "portable mosques sized to the task of concealment." In addition to deploying decoys, the Iraqis are painting craters onto repaired airfields so allied bombers won't retarget them. They may also be fixing up decimated installations to make them look only partly destroyed so their enemies will return to waste bombs on useless structures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoys: Tanks but No Tanks | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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