U.S. intelligence officials said Iraq's military is converting trucks
provided under a United Nations exchange program for missile and artillery
weapons.
The Iraqis have taken Russian and German trucks that were sent to an
Iraqi port last year and converted the vehicles into SA-3 mobile
anti-aircraft missile carriers and multiple rocket launcher artillery rocket
carriers.
The conversion was photographed by U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and
presented to the United Nations earlier this month as evidence of Baghdad's
cheating on a program known as oil-for-food. The U.N. program allows the
Iraqis to sell off some oil outside of economic sanctions if the proceeds
are used to buy food and humanitarian goods.
The intelligence on the trucks was used by Bush administration officials
to convince the United Nations to press Iraq to resume weapons inspections
in Iraq. Baghdad expelled the inspectors in 1998 following U.S. missile
strikes.
The converted trucks had been televised by Iraqi TV during a parade and
showed them towing artillery that was identified as D-30 field guns, with a
range of 10 miles. Other photos showed dump trucks outfitted with heavy duty
hydraulic lifters that were to be used as missile launchers.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/s-125.htm
I've read that they are getting missiles from North Korea also.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Braver, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: Ready For War (Re: Why (Re: They invaded! 0_0))
> Todd-
>
> are the missles Iraq got from China surface-to-surface (for attacking
ground
> targets in other countries) or surface-to-air (for shooting at US
aircraft?
>
> I was under the impression they were s-t-s but I might be wrong.
>
> -Ben
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: Re: Ready For War (Re: Why (Re: They invaded! 0_0))
> >
> >
> > Probably because the Govmt. knows Iraq is just testing their
> > shiney new
> > missle systems they got from China. It's also a good opp. for
> > the U.S. to
> > test those missle systems' tracking capabilities too. Then,
> > after they get
> > enough info, they take them out. War is expensive. This is
> > cheaper. Plus,
> > we get to continually annoy Saddam and do some intelligence
> > gathering at the
> > same time.
> >
> > I'm only making a wild guess. I'm probably way wrong :)
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:55 PM
> > Subject: RE: Ready For War (Re: Why (Re: They invaded! 0_0))
> >
> >
> > > > In a lot of circles, firing rockets across an
> > international border at
> > > > another country is described by the words "act of war".
> > > >
> > >
> > > That reminds me of Iraq. About 2-3 times a month, for
> > _years_, you hear
> > > about one of our jets blowing up a missile or radar site.
> > Why? Because
> > > Iraq targetted our planes. What I don't get is - even if Iraq has no
> > > chance in hell of knocking down our planes, why don't we
> > consider this
> > > an act of war? If you point a very small gun at me, my life
> > is still in
> > > danger. This type of event should have happaned once... and
> > that should
> > > have been the last time ever.
> > >
> > > -rc
> >
> >
>
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