Word: scud
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...conflict by launching missiles at Tel Aviv. He still has followers, notably among Palestinians who love his implacable opposition to Israel and appreciate the cash he doles out to families of suicide bombers. But 13 years later, it's hard to ignore the fact that apart from the Scud attacks on Israel, Saddam's military campaigns have always targeted fellow Muslims--Iranians, Kuwaitis and even Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Arabs are also more aware of Saddam's tyranny, thanks to the Internet and Arab satellite channels, information sources that did not exist during the last gulf crisis...
...impoverished people by flagrantly appealing to this hysterical world view. And these theories have been put into violent practice: North Korea launched an aggressive war in 1950, regularly kidnapped foreign nationals and is already a force in the global drug and arms trades. (Imagine if a shipment of Scud missiles was intercepted coming from Iraq, as a North Korean shipment was in the Indian Ocean last December. What are the chances the U.S. would allow that vessel to continue onward to Yemen?) Add to this North Korea's economic desperation?the country doesn't have the natural resources that Iraq...
...radiation over China, Japan and South Korea and trigger a hellacious North Korean counterattack. The regime boasts a standing army of 1 million troops--the world's fourth largest--with an estimated 4.7 million more in reserve. It also keeps a massive store of artillery shells and hundreds of Scud missiles that it could load with biological and chemical agents and rain down on South Korea and the 37,000 U.S. troops stationed there. Some U.S. military officials believe that a conventional exchange with North Korea could result in as many as 1 million South Korean casualties. Even...
...Scud-B 185 miles (300 km) In the 1970s and 1980s Iraq imported from the Soviet Union these surface-to-surface, mobile, liquid-fueled, short-range ballistic missiles of limited accuracy. Iraq launched hundreds of them at Iran in the 1980s...
...Samoud 93 miles (150 km) The U.N. only allows Iraq missiles with a range of less than 93 miles (150 km), so Iraq still develops the Samoud, essentially a scaled-down Scud. This program allows Baghdad to develop technology that could be used to make longer-range missiles...