***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 9 - LIVE THREAD*** ^

Multiple | 28 March 2003 | Various

[Nam Vet]

Washingtonpost.com Cakewalk in Iraq by Ken Adelman Wednesday, February 13, 2002; Page A27

The Guardian (U.K.) Trust Tony's Judgment by William Jefferson Blythe Clinton March 18, 2003

Nam Vet

[Doohickey]

For those incapable of searching for "silkworm missile" at google.com, I present the following:

The Haiying-1 (HY-1), Silkworm is a Chinese-made, anti-ship, surface-to-surface missile system. The Silkworm has a maximum range of 95 kilometers.

The Silkworm is derived from the Societ SS-N-2 Styx.

It was originally developed as a coastal defence missile. The missile was later modified for launching from Luda Class destroyer and other surface ships.

NATO Designation : CSSC-2. CSS-N-1.

[Consort]

...Silkworm.

[pitinkie]

Too true. Anyone have a link that works?

[cactusSharp]

uhhh cool if there was a line we could all just do a day...hehehe...good eye

[Right_in_Virginia]

Sounds like they are NOT blaming us.

I thank you for the clarification...with a relieved heart.

[Not A Snowbird]

Looks like a 3.4 just east of Fairbanks? A decent shaker. I'm a native Californian (dont' tell my neighbors) so I don't get too excited unless it's at least 5.0. You guys sure rock and roll up there!

[glock rocks]

to die for.

we have people at work who drive 45 minutes round trip to fetch a dozen.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thank you!

[clouda]

Will Daschle be deeply saddened by the "market strike" or the KC missle????

LOL!

I'm sure senator KKK Byrd will weep for the "market strike".

today I weep for my country

[Timeout]

Silkworm is an anti-ship missile. As to whether it was on the banned list, there's an interesting conundrum.

If it were fired FROM land and hit land, then it might be considered a "surface to surface" missile, which was NOT banned....except for range. If a surface to surface missile exceeded 150 km, then it has a range exceeding Iraq sanctions.

That's the conundrum: Is it a surface to surface? And if so, does one judge its legality by the missile's possible range, or by the range it actually travelled (which we don't know yet.

[Merdoug]

*laughing!* Yep! I know what you mean! Those funny cars, the funny buildings, the dogs barking and the roosters crowing,...and who can forget the morning prayers!

[GOPyouth]

He'll weep deeply..

I'm still waiting for Hussein to attempt to lob these missiles into Israel.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks, and sorry, I didn't even think of using google.

[Henchster]

That looks like it! Here's a link to some pictures I posted on the KC missile thread of the pieces there, and they look like parts from one of these. I'd post the photos here, but they're a little big, and we've been told to be bandwidth aware on these threads.

Pieces Pictures Post 278

[cactusSharp]

that does it...that endorcement should be on tv

[cactusSharp]

hey look freepers my post reply is a pic of SHEETS

ole SHEETS Byrd...how does it SHEETS ?

[7 x 77]

People are saddened and weepy and you make jokes.

[cyncooper]

Here is the link to my post about it at #27, and your post is #14. You and I then had links in our posts to the original threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/878157/posts?page=27#27

[Dog]

I was just thinking.....

Saddam had the world's press clucking over the "market bombing" and now one of his minions just screwed up....they fired a missile into a fellow arabs capitol to kill civilians.

Saddam is not very PR savy after all...