Word: scuds
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WASHINGTON: Talk about a shot across your bows. North Korea's test-firing turns out to have been a two-stage ballistic missile -- one with the accuracy of a Scud -- that crossed Japanese territory and splashed down in the Pacific Monday morning, according to Japan's Defense Agency. Now an outraged Japan is refusing to back a deal to build nuclear reactors in North Korea, effectively scuppering the nuclear freeze negotiations under way in New York. What was Pyongyang thinking...
...notoriously inaccurate, and Iran may need an additional two years before it can deploy a rocket reliable enough for military operations. In a region full of perils, Shahab-3 is only one more potential menace. U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf can be hit by shorter-range Iranian Scud missiles. And Israel, which reacted calmly to the Iranian launch, already lies within range of Syrian, Egyptian, Saudi and Iraqi missiles...
...paper made public the same day the President spoke reported that the U.N.'s inspectors "believe Iraq maintains a small force of Scud-type missiles, a small stockpile of chemical and biological munitions" and the ability to produce more of them quickly. A U.S. and British bombing strike, Clinton told his Pentagon audience, "can and will leave him significantly worse off than he is now" and reduce Saddam's ability to attack his neighbors. "If he seeks to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction, we will be prepared to strike him again." Clinton even trotted out some cold war rhetoric...
Seven years after Arthur Kent and Peter Arnett reported live from Baghdad with American jets dropping bombs overhead, after Israeli cities were hit with Scud missiles, after thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, the threat of American military action in Iraq looms large once again...
...Officials concede the prospect of an Iraqi attack is remote at best. But Israelis are still lining up for gas masks, and many in Tel Aviv ? Iraq's primary Scud rocket target during the Gulf War ? are anxious. "In one scenario, if the American attacks are too devastating, Saddam will feel desperate and attack Israel to stop the Americans or to secure his place in history," says Beyer. That would certainly open up a whole new can of worms...