Saturday, March 29, 2003

IN WAR, SOME FACTS ARE, WELL, LESS FACTUAL
Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Shortly before US strikes began in the Gulf War, for example, the St. Petersburg Times asked two experts to examine the satellite images of the Kuwait and Saudi Arabia border area taken in mid-September 1990, a month and a half after the Iraqi invasion. The experts, including a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who specialized in desert warfare, pointed out the US build-up – jet fighters standing wing-tip to wing-tip at Saudi bases – but were surprised to see almost no sign of the Iraqis.
(Christian Science Monitor from a September, 2002 Story in the Village Voice)

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