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March 30, 2003
The Baghdad market missile
Tim Blair has a post discussing the missile. Apparently Robert Fisk was given a piece of metal with serial numbers on it, and those seem to indicate that the missile was American. Fisk says "The piece of metal bearing the codings was retrieved only minutes after the missile exploded on Friday evening, by an old man whose home is only 100 yards from the 6ft crater. Even the Iraqi authorities do not know that it exists." The possibility exists however that the missile fragment was planted in some way. Posted By Lonewacko at March 30, 2003 02:33 PM | TrackBackComments
was there an independent analysis of the civilian deaths and claims and counter claims either in both Afgahnistan and Serbia? Posted by: angrYkook at March 30, 2003 03:36 PMThe missile could easily have been an American HARM or British ALARM anti-radiation missile fired at an active fire-controll radar that just hapens to be located near a busy market square (a violation of the articles of war). Either way the Iraqi regime is very likely resposible for this mishap. Posted by: Tarmo Saranen at March 30, 2003 03:50 PMIf this peice of metal is really part of the shell, it could be from anyplace that uses the Roman alphabet. For that matter, the -smudged B or H- could be a scratched-out Cyrillic letter (the one that resembles a backwards R) from a years-old piece of ordnance. I don't think the backwards "R" (it makes a 'ya' sound) would be mistaken for a Roman "H" or "B", as both of the latter letters have a straight left side. However, it could be the Cyrillic letter "H" (which sounds like English 'n' when you squeeze it) or the Cyrillic letter "B" (English 'v'). Posted by: Lonewacko at March 30, 2003 09:56 PMLet I impugn our fine druzjas, Fisk says it says "MFR..." on it. While the "M" might possibly be Cyrillic, the "FR" letters are Roman-only. Posted by: Lonewacko at March 30, 2003 10:07 PMPost a comment
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