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From: gottlieb@alliant.UUCP (Bob Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 01:04:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 01:04:13 1986
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I was interested to read that on April 1st, the US Navy launched
a conventionally-armed Tomahawk missile, which travelled 400 miles
to explode it's 1000 lb warhead directly over a parked airplane.
AW&ST has a photo of the plane blowing up.

Why didn't we use these to:
    1. Hit the targets without losing aircraft
    2. Hit the targets without hitting civilians.

These can be launched from submarines. Would we use this if another
terrorist attack pointed to Libya?

What is scary is that these could easily hit Syria, Lebanon, or Iran.

Talk about push-button war.
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