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Yemen missiles were Baghdad-bound...
Scud missiles seized two weeks ago in the Arabian Sea were destined for Iraq, not Yemen, it was reported yesterday. Israeli analysts say Yemen has no need for Scuds, and the cargo's arrival there was only temporary. A top Israeli defense official told The Post the ground-to-ground missiles were meant for another undisclosed country. The newspaper Haaretz went further and identified Iraq as the Scuds' ultimate destination. U.S. authorities turned a blind eye to the shipment and released the cargo in order to ensure Yemen's support in the ongoing war against al Qaeda, the newspaper said yesterday. Now that they've got them, they'll probably keep them, rather than jump in the poop by sending them on to Sammy. If we'd been sure they were on the way there, though, I'd think we'd have let them be delivered and then had the inspectors pop in and "discover" them. My guess would be that it didn't happen that way either because we weren't sure, or because the administration doesn't trust Blix. Once these things are identified in the pipeline, they can be tracked to their destinations by a variety of means... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-27 |
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