Word: scud
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WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Intelligence officials were convinced that after the first Gulf War, Saddam had secretly retained a few dozen Scud-variant missiles, capable of traveling almost 600 miles, and was actively working to develop other long-range delivery systems...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW Iraq was indeed planning on developing long-range ballistic missiles that could travel 600 miles or more, but none of the designs were even close to being produced. At the same time, the Duelfer report states that Iraq did not possess any covert arsenal of Scud-variant missiles...
...Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK) has amply demonstrated its enthusiasm for selling illicit arms on the international market. In 2002, for instance, the Spanish navy intercepted a North Korean vessel shipping scud missiles to Yemen. Back in 1998 the DPRK was found to have sold missile technology to Pakistan’s Khan Research Lab. (As in Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed this year to selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.) The danger that the regime will now sell nuclear weapons to terrorists cannot be brushed aside...
...second post attributed to Cooper, written after Saddam Hussein’s capture, claimed that “only a great leader like Saddam Hussein would have had the guts to hit the Zionist imperial colonists with the scud missiles necessary to set the Zionist entity on edge...
...SAUD: Turning Iraq into a stable country, how can this be disadvantageous to Saudi Arabia? We were facing a country that was attacking us militarily. We would much rather be threatened by democratic ideas than with Scud missiles and weapons of mass destruction. [In Saudi Arabia], real reform is being done with the intention of keeping the social cohesion and unity of the country together. We are not playing experiments in labs. We believe we are going at it with the ear of our leaders to the heartbeat of the people, what they expect, what they need...