[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.

[Henchster]

I think I can clear this up:

The U.N. sanctions and agreements for cease-fire from Gulf War 1 would obviously include a ban on striking any other country in any way. I mean, they'd be meaningless without a clause like that, wouldn't they?

OK, OK, never mind....

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thank you, too, friend.

I really appreciate all who take the time to answer a question from one who knows so little about military weapons...it really helps.