Word: scud
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Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
During the Gulf War, when 39 Iraqi Scud missiles struck Israel, the state was pressured by former President George H.W. Bush’s administration not to retaliate. The U.S. feared that if Israel joined the conflict, Arab nations that were members of the coalition against Iraq would back out. But today, Israel has vowed to react—and with good reason...
...result, America has tried to mollify Israeli fears by developing military plans that would include intensive campaigns to destroy missile launchers in western Iraq and to give Israel adequate warning of any Scud launchings. These plans are crucial to protecting Israel against the threat of Iraq but the administration must also recognize that Israel still has the unquestionable right to respond to outside threats. Americans should remember that Israel, in an act of self-preservation, saved innumerable lives when Prime Minister Menachem Begin launched an air strike called Operation Babylon against an Iraqi nuclear plant in June...
...Even if inspectors return to Iraq with expanded powers, can they document, uncover and dismantle Saddam's full arsenal more completely than their predecessors? (From 1991 to 1998, monitors found hundreds of tons of chemical agents, dismantled more than 800 Scud missiles and wiped out Saddam's budding nuclear program, but they didn't come close to uncovering everything.) The U.S. has even less confidence in inspections after a hiatus: Saddam has had the past four years to hone his concealment skills. In eight years of efforts to uncover Iraq's stockpiles, "we taught them what we could find...
...control sites. Next to go would be Saddam's palaces and other symbols of his power, such as television studios and transmitting towers used to fill Iraqi airwaves with his words and image. Other early targets would include the mobile missile launchers in western Iraq capable of lobbing Scud missiles--perhaps laden with biological or chemical weapons--toward Israel. During the previous war, the U.S. failed to knock out a single Scud launcher. This time, with improvements in satellites, drones and intelligence, it should fare better...