Word: scuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have recently bought Scud missiles from North Korea, and more reportedly are on the way. What is the purpose of acquiring these strategic weapons...
Bombing runs that visibly reduced Iraqi targets to instant rubble. Midair collisions between Scud and Patriot missiles. Pentagon press conferences explaining live the blow by blow of battle. To the U.S. public, these unforgettable images made the gulf war the most reported conflict in memory. But journalists, aware that enterprise was thwarted and that news organs served mainly as conduits for government, regard the war as a setback for press freedom and thus for holding bureaucrats accountable...
During the gulf war, American commanders announced that allied aircraft had knocked out 30 fixed and 16 mobile Scud missile launchers. Iraq contends that coalition forces failed to hit a single one of its launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought...
...think he has a couple of hundred Scud missiles hidden. Enough of his nuclear program was found and uncovered so our estimate is it would take several years to get that program significantly restarted. His biological- weapons program could be reconstituted in weeks...
DESERT STORM GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF once said its record was 33 for 33. President Bush was nearly as upbeat, claiming it was 41 out of 42. Last week a group of independent analysts said nobody can determine how many of the 47 threatening Iraqi Scud missiles were intercepted and destroyed by U.S. Patriot missiles...