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...January, Bush said the three states were "seeking weapons of mass destruction" and posed a "grave and growing danger." On last week's evidence, he's right. Within a few days, the following things happened: Spanish and American forces detained and then released a cargo of North Korean Scud missiles hidden in a stateless vessel bound for Yemen. The shipment was legal, but given the tinderbox nature of Yemeni society, irresponsible. Then Pyongyang announced that it intended to restart work on nuclear reactors that had been closed down since a crisis with the U.S. in 1994; spent fuel from...
Iraq has actively pursued production of shortrange missiles, legal under the U.N. resolutions. But it may also have two dozen or more enhanced-and prohibited-Scud missiles left over from 1991 and potentially able to deliver chemical or biological warheads as far away as Tel Aviv, Riyadh or Tehran...
...Hussein 375 to 400 miles (600 to 650 km) Iraq re-engineered the Scud-B, which has a range of 185 miles (300 km), to produce the Hussein. During the Gulf War, Iraq fired almost 80 al-Husseins at Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Israel...
...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...