Frogs, not Scuds

RE earnest at tallynet.com
Thu Mar 20 08:07:40 PST 2003


Whilst most of my usual news sites were barking about Scuds and the implied violation of weapons restrictions on Sadaam -- waving the smoking gun to obscure civilian bodies -- Ha'aretz says:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/274616.html

"The missiles launched by Iraq at targets in Kuwait on Thursday were not Scuds, as was originally believed, but FROG (Free Rocket Over Ground) missiles - or something similar - which have a maximum range of 70 kilometers.

According to Israeli defense officials, the short-range conventional missile attack on U.S. troops does not reflect a significant change in the Iraqi approach, and does not require Israel to change its state of readiness...."

The Independent barked: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388959 "If the missiles are confirmed to have been Scuds it would be seen as proof that Iraq has been in breach of the US [sic] resolution banning them from having missiles with a range beyond 150km."



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