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With defeat facing him, most analysts believe, Saddam will use every dirty trick at his disposal. He will load his guns and multiple-rocket launchers with chemical weapons and use those weapons in large numbers. They will not be a decisive weapon but may advance his plan to cause as many deaths as possible. He will also fire off his Scuds with chemical warheads, if he has them, at Israel in another attempt to widen the war and crack the coalition...
...long Scud traces its lineage to a 1940s design for the V-2 rocket, which the Nazis propelled into London in the waning days of World War II. NATO dubbed it the SS-1A Scunner, code-named Scud for short. The Scud-A evolved into the larger and longer-range Scud-B. By the early 1980s, the Soviets had begun phasing out Scuds in favor of the more versatile SS-23 surface-to-surface missile. However, Moscow did not stop selling the old workhorse. As a Soviet client, Baghdad took deliveries of the ballistic missile and improved on its range...
...chance to win a trip to Soviet space station Mir. The winner of the sweepstakes would have to train for as long as six months in the Soviet Union but would also get $500,000. Or if he or she got cold feet and decided to pass up the rocket ride, the earthbound consolation prize would be $1.5 million...
...four-wheel drive. In a moment, he was stuck in the loose sand. In another, he was in custody. But Basa's confederates got away, their Chevy Blazers roaring off for Kuwait City. By nightfall they would resupply the Kuwaiti resistance with 90 AK-47 assault rifles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 5,000 rounds of ammunition and, at $25,000 each, three more mobile telephones equipped with portable satellite dishes -- high-tech communications systems capable of connecting those "inside" with the outside world...
...lines, would switch to direct bombing and strafing of Iraqi troops, possibly including carpet bombing by B-52s based in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to clear out Iraqi minefields. American artillery firing Copperhead shells, which use a laser-guided homing device, and multiple-rocket launchers would subject Saddam's troops to a murderous hail of ground fire. Missile-firing Cobra and Apache helicopters would hit Iraqi armored units from distances beyond the pilots' sight; A-10 antitank planes belching more than 4,000 cannon rounds a minute would blast away from closer range...