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Missile that hit Kuwait City was American; New York Times
01.04.2003 [04:41]


KUWAIT: The missile that rocked Kuwait City on Saturday was American, an article in the New York Times said qouting witnesses and Kuwaiti officials.

`Witnesses who gathered shortly after the explosion at 1:45 a.m. local time could see a twisted piece of metal on the esplanade near the shoreline about the size of a wastebasket and bearing the number "5420" in red. The words "place" and "protractor" could also be made out on a shard. Emergency workers put fragments into bags that they took away for analysis,` the New York Times said in a report published later on the same day.

Some Kuwaiti officials who examined the fragments said they believed an errant American cruise missile had been fired from the Persian Gulf toward Iraq, the paper reported.

"It was an American cruise missile, we know from the markings and writing on it," a Kuwaiti police colonel, who did not give his name, told the New York Times. "It doesn`t go up, it comes in low from the sea, and that`s why there was no alert."

Another uniformed Kuwaiti official told the paper that he, too, believed the missile to have been American and said that it "came from the sea." Adding that "it was a mistake" that it had struck Kuwait.

The New York Times also reported Victoria Clarke, the chief Pentagon spokeswoman, saying about reports by Kuwaiti officials that it was too early to tell what had happened or whose missile it was.

The official Kuwaiti news service reported two people wounded during the explosion. The blast shattered windows, scattered ceiling tiles and ruptured water pipes in the mall, in the Souq Sharq district.

Talal al-Zamanan, who was sitting in a cafe on the opposite side of the mall when the explosion occurred, told the The New York Times that if the missile had struck on a Wednesday night, before the Islamic weekend, the area would have been crowded with people.





Quoted from original article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial…

[Eustach1]

Und, wer bezahlt jetzt die Wiederherstellung des Gebäudes ?

Gruß
Eustach
(der sowas friendly fire nennt)

[M_B_S]

Lt . der US Propaganda sollte es eine Chinesische "Seidenraupe" der Iraker gewesen sein

[towlander]

#1

genau diese Nachricht wird jetzt in den Medien nicht mehr breitgetreten.
Dem unmündigen Bürger, bleibt nur dass mal eine irakische Rakete in Kuweit eingeschlagen, ist in Erinnerung.

[Cashlover]

Nun ja, es wurde bereits kurz nach dem Einschlag darauf hingewiesen, dass die Rakete "von der Seeseite" kam.

Da hätte es ja nur die Möglichkeit gegeben, dass die Amis einen irakischen Lenkwaffenzerstörer übersehen haben oder das chinesische Raketen nicht auf einer Geraden ihr Ziel anfliegen.

Beides war sehr unwahrscheinlich

[SFK]

# 1:

April, April!

SFK