Word: scud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife Judy donned gas masks, moved to a sealed room, then quickly placed their 15-month-old son Dylan in a small plastic tent designed to protect infants from chemical poisons. As Dylan howled in protest, Jon got on the phone to find out more about the Scud missiles that were falling on Israel and to advise us in New York City. It was a reminder for us all that war is composed of human experiences, and they are not often pleasant...
...pinpoint accuracy of the attacks was spectacular. At a Friday briefing in Saudi Arabia, Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner showed videotapes of two laser-guided bombs sailing through the open doors of a bunker in which an Iraqi Scud missile was stored, and a third plopping down the rooftop air shaft of a tall building in Baghdad -- apparently the headquarters of the Iraqi air force -- and then blowing off the top floors. Bombs and missiles also hit other targets around and even in the heart of Baghdad -- Saddam's presidential palace, for one -- while apparently doing little damage...
...little boy wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle T-shirt taps me on the leg. He asks me if I am a reporter. "I guess," I tell him. "Tov, zeh heleck may ha-til [This is part of the missile]," he says, as he produces a contorted burned SCUD remain, "Birtzinut? [Is it really]", I ask, "Betach! [of course]" he responds, very matter of factly...
President Bush met with his war planners at the White House shortly after a Scud missile struck a residential section of the Israeli city, with a toll of three dead and at least 70 wounded...
...Pentagon's Kelly said Saddam was "doing little or nothing" except launching Scud missiles at Saudi or Israeli cities in an attempt to create terror. Because of that, Kelly said, "We're not going to punch ourselves...