Pentagon: No Iraqi Scud Missiles Found Yet

By John Liang / March 22, 2002 at 5:00 AM
U.S. special operations forces operating in western Iraq have found no evidence yet of any Scud ballistic missiles or launchers, senior Pentagon officials said today. Finding and destroying Scud missiles has been a key mission of the special operations forces who have been in western Iraq since the opening minutes of the war, for it is from there that the 38 missiles that hit Israel during the 1991 Gulf War were launched. "To my knowledge we have not found any"...

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