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From: cshafai@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus Shafai)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: fake scuds
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.044105.26215@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:41:05 GMT
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From: cshafai@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus Shafai)


wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) writes:

>I also heard one of the reporters who was in Baghdad during the
>strike, when interviewed in Amman after escaping, say he'd seen 'mock
>scuds' on the roads ... 18 wheelers with old sewer pipe on top as
>decoy targets.  (It was either Fabrice Mosu[ls], the ABC camera man whose
>footage was smuggled out by ITN, or the Boston GLobe reporter next to him.)
>He also saw Soviet Scud convoys on the road as well.  These two reports
>do not correlate 100%.

These mock scud launchers are wooden and are filled with kerosene.  So
when a US plane bombs it, it explodes and they think the hit a real 
target.


Cyrus Shafai
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