cshafai@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus Shafai) (01/24/91)
From: cshafai@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus Shafai) wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) writes: >I also heard one of the reporters who was in Baghdad during the >strike, when interviewed in Amman after escaping, say he'd seen 'mock >scuds' on the roads ... 18 wheelers with old sewer pipe on top as >decoy targets. (It was either Fabrice Mosu[ls], the ABC camera man whose >footage was smuggled out by ITN, or the Boston GLobe reporter next to him.) >He also saw Soviet Scud convoys on the road as well. These two reports >do not correlate 100%. These mock scud launchers are wooden and are filled with kerosene. So when a US plane bombs it, it explodes and they think the hit a real target. Cyrus Shafai :