jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) (01/22/91)
(San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991) SHOT HEARD ROUND THE GULF HIT AT&T SITE IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today. Col Alton C. Whitley, commanding the 37th Tactical Figher Wing, told reporters at the air base where Stealth 117A fighers are based that Thursday's attack had been a brilliant success. He credited new technology that enables aircraft to avoid radar detection and split-second timing in planning and executing the attack. Whitley said F117As from two squadrons carried out some 30 sorties against 80 Iraqi targets in the pre-dawn hours Thursday. The results of these attacks where shown to reporters in dramatic video footage recorded by sensors in the planes. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. building, near the Tigris River, was a target because of the communications it provided the Iraqi armed forces. In the video footage, the building comes into the cross-hair site centered on it's roof to control the flight of the laser guided bomb. As the building passes beneath the fighter, still undetected by Iraqi defenses, the viewer sees a mighty blast hurling debris from all sides of the building.
myamin@cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) (01/23/91)
From article <21583@netcom.UUCP>, by jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden): > (San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991) > > SHOT HEARD ROUND THE GULF HIT AT&T SITE > > IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 > pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by > a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today. > AT&T says they don't have a building in Iraq; the report must refer to something else. Maybe MCI?
rdb@mtunf.ATT.COM (Ron DeBlock) (01/23/91)
In article <21583@netcom.UUCP> jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes: >(San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991) > >SHOT HEARD ROUND THE GULF HIT AT&T SITE > >IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 >pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by >a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today. The AT&T internal electronic newsletter says the above report is absolutely false. It further states that AT&T has (had) no buildings in Iraq. The media has issued retractions. -- Ron DeBlock N2JSO If God had meant for Man rdb@mtunf.att.com to see the sun rise, He !mtunf!rdb would have scheduled it later in the day.
sbbrown@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen B. Brown) (01/23/91)
From article <21583@netcom.UUCP>, by jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden): >> (San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991) >> SHOT HEARD ROUND THE GULF HIT AT&T SITE >> IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - ... 2,000 pound bomb dropped squarely into >> the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad ... In article <1991Jan22.182709.23158@cbnewsm.att.com> myamin@cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) writes: >AT&T says they don't have a building in Iraq; the report must refer >to something else. Maybe MCI? (According to National Public Radio:) The building was the Iraqi PTT (Public Telephone & Telegraph) headquarters. It was referred to by an Air Force officer as an AT&T building in the generic sense, i.e., a phone company building. The reference to AT&T was widely reported in the media. I assume AT&T disapproves of this use of its trademark, as well as the unintentional publicity. -- Steve Brown sbbrown@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu
norm@cfctech.cfc.com (Norman J. Meluch) (01/24/91)
From article <21583@netcom.UUCP>, by jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden): > (San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991) > > IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 > pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by > a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today. myamin@cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) writes: >AT&T says they don't have a building in Iraq; the report must refer >to something else. Maybe MCI? NPR announced today that the building was not an AT&T building, but the Iraqi PT&T (Public Telephone & Telegraph) building. The pilots of the mission were told to "think of it as 'their' version of AT&T". Moreover they said that the amount of damage done by bombing the *top* of of such a building was suspect, since most of the "critical" equipment for telecommunications was probably stored underground, due to terrorist concerns in the middle east. - Norm. -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Norman J. Meluch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Mail: norm@cfctech.cfc.com Fax:(313)948-4975 Voice:(313)948-4809 | | Note: The opinions expressed here are in no way to be confused with valid | |_______ideas or corporate policy.____________________________________________|
jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) (01/25/91)
|> IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 |> pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by |> a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today. |> |AT&T says they don't have a building in Iraq; the report must refer |to something else. Maybe MCI? It seems that they got their quote backwards, it should have read that an Air Force bomber got a direct strike on the AT&T stealth building. Even AT&T doesn't know about it. :-) -- Cure the common code... | John Macdonald ...Ban Basic - Christine Linge | jmm@eci386