U.S. Air Force bombs AT&T !!
John Breeden
jbreeden at netcom.UUCP
Tue Jan 22 15:55:52 AEST 1991
(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.
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