Word: scuds
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...years ago, I was in Israel when Saddam Hussein lobbed Scud missiles toward us (and toward U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia) in the hope that they would land somewhere populated, and kill many people. Then, thousands of Palestinian men, women and children danced openly on their rooftops as the terror missiles passed overhead. I see no reason to believe that the (thousands of) people (openly) cheering and the children handing out candy in celebration Tuesday and throughout the week were atypical...
...agree to the U.S. demand - although the self-preservation urge may prompt them to play for time by demanding that the evidence against Bin Laden be presented to their own religious courts. But the Taliban underlined its posture of defiance by reportedly moving more than 20,000 fighters and SCUD missiles to the border with Pakistan on Monday...
...Today every Palestinian is like a Scud missile. He gets up, puts on his clothes and mows people down." DAVID BAR MAOZ, an Israeli, after a hit-and-run attack by a Palestinian on a crowded bus stop near Tel Aviv...
...only we knew what they were going to do next. Because it doesn't always come up roses. James Watt's steam engine generated an Industrial Revolution that gave us a democracy of possessions--and over-population, acid rain, the Love Canal, disappearing forests, tattered ozone layers and Scud missiles. Medical miracles lengthen our lives and take national welfare provision to the edge of crisis. Electronic globalization moves jobs elsewhere...
...million, to strengthen Israel's northern border in the wake of its withdrawal from Lebanon. "It's more analogous to the Patriot than anything else," explains Thompson, referring to the interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever a SCUD was fired, giving it a minute...