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...tower a supervisor barked, "Stop all aircraft! Stop all aircraft...
Nonetheless, the superiority of the American aircraft in both numbers and technology might be able to sweep the Iraqis from the skies in two or three days. The air offensive would then shift into a phase of low-level bombing (from as little as 200 ft.) in contrast to the high-altitude dogfighting of the first few days. Targets could include some war-related industries in northern Iraq and some command-and-control centers. But the bombing would probably be concentrated on military targets -- tank parks, antiaircraft and artillery concentrations, roads and bridges, fuel and water depots -- in southern Iraq...
Iraqi antiaircraft defenses are formidable: they include hundreds of Soviet- built surface-to-air missiles and perhaps 4,000 modern antiaircraft guns. "A hundred or more lost U.S. aircraft would be a fair estimate" for this phase of the campaign, says retired Marine General Bernard Trainor. Other predictions range...
...Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate, cattle, rental cars and aircraft. He owns a small publishing house and a large kiwifruit orchard. He is nothing if not flexible in his dealings: Saddam paid for some of his weapons with oil, which Cardoen sold on the spot market...
Biological weapons can employ a deadly array of organisms and naturally occurring toxins. Packaged inside small bombs and delivered by aircraft or artillery shells, the germs would be released in a mist of infectious droplets that victims would inhale. A tiny amount would go a long way. Less than 1 g (0.035 oz.) of a bacterium called tularemia could produce thousands of deadly doses. U.S. officials insist that soldiers can be protected from such an attack with gas masks and nonpermeable clothing. But the gear cannot be worn indefinitely, especially in the desert's searing heat, and strains resistant...