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To: PhiKapMom
I think MOAB would be the perfect welcoming gift for the Iraqi's that Saddam is sending to the borders!

Only one problem. As a dis-incentive to the Iraqi High Command, it might not be effective. One can imagine the report to Saddam: "Our army of ten thousand strong was making good progress toward the infidels in Kuwait, but then they just disapeared without a trace. There is only a smoking hole in the sand. The Infidels could not have done this. Our army must have mistakenly entered the 'Bahgdad Triangle'. We will dispatch another army to look for them right away."

624 posted on 03/13/2003 8:57:28 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Let's Roll Already!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
March 13
— WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warplanes taking part in U.S.-British patrols over southern Iraq on Thursday attacked an Iraqi radar southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

With more than 250,000 American and British troops in the Gulf poised for a possible U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military's Central Command said the planes used precision-guided weapons to target a mobile radar system about 265 miles southwest of the Iraqi capital.

In recent weeks, Western aircraft have stepped up attacks in the "no-fly zones" over southern and northern Iraq while extending the targets to include battlefield missiles and rockets that could hinder a ground invasion.

The last strike came on Monday when Western warplanes attacked a mobile radar system about 230 miles west of Baghdad.

The no-fly zones were set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south from Baghdad's forces. Iraq does not recognize the zones.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030313_714.html
626 posted on 03/13/2003 8:59:35 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth......)
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