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| Iraq |
| Iraqis repositioning missiles |
| 2003-03-22 |
| Iraqi forces have been repositioning their surface-to-surface missiles and are expected to try further missile attacks against advancing American troops. U.S. officials also disclosed that the missiles fired at Kuwait over the past few days have not been random shots but have been targeted, based on Iraqi intelligence about where American units were positioned. That would represent either poor intel or poor aim... Allied warplanes are now involved in an intensive effort to strike the Iraqis' mobile missile launchers before they fire again. United States military officials say they bombed several Iraqi missile launchers last night. But the Iraqi missile batteries now appear to be heading north on the highway out of Basra so they can fire at the right flank of the American troops as they advance toward Baghdad. "They are not out of the game," said Brig. Gen. Howard Bromberg, the commander of the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, which is commanding the Patriots batteries in the Persian Gulf region. "They are repositioning." That's the time to take them out from the air, before they're settled in and camouflaged... Iraq has fired six Ababil-100 missiles, at the 101st Airborne division, at an allied air base in Kuwait, at the command center for the land war, at a huge Marine logistics area and at other important targets. Looks like it was easier to send in a couple hard boys with some grenades to strike against the 101st. Not as much arithmetic involved, either... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |