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...Also, response time would be limited: while Israel would have a few minutes worth of warning to deploy defenses for attacks launched from far-off Iraq or Iran, it would take mere seconds for a missile fired from the West Bank to reach Israeli territory. And while the lumbering Scud launchers can be observed from satellites, the fold-up Qassam-2 can be concealed and assembled within minutes...
Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, unspeakable crimes against countless more Kuwaitis and unprovoked Scud missile attacks against Israel. Iran’s leadership shipped a boatload of arms to Palestinian terrorists and is trying to undermine the caretaker government in Afghanistan. North Korea is the world’s last Stalinist state; its leadership pursues long-range missiles and nuclear weapons as millions face starvation...
...cause mass annihilation they need to be made into weapons--a process that entails producing the material in large quantities, turning it into a powder and placing it in a delivery system such as a warhead, bomb or aerosol diffuser. All but two of Iraq's Soviet-made Scud missiles were accounted for after the Gulf War, but last year Iraq began testing short-range ballistic missiles, which could potentially be loaded with viruses or gases and fired as far as 95 miles away. U.S. defense experts were quick to ridicule the Iraqi efforts as unsophisticated, but they missed...
...important than ever. Ordinarily, America enjoys a marked advantage over its adversaries in this regard. During the Gulf War, the world was fed a constant stream of U.S.-friendly information through CNN’s rugged 24-hour coverage of the war. Its reporters broadcasted fearlessly from Israel during Scud missile attacks, on the frontlines in Saudi Arabia and even from Baghdad as bombs rained down from overhead...
...general, Downing led U.S. special forces in the 1989 invasion of Panama, then Delta Force commandos who hunted for Iraqi Scud missiles during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But he became disenchanted with the appointment last week after discovering he probably would not get the $10 million budget or the staff of 30 he thought he had been promised. Senior White House aides believe they can talk him into taking...