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Article: The last-gasp effort to get Saddam. (Saddam Hussein)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 20, 1992
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The last-gasp effort to get Saddam
At 7:19 p.m. on February 27, less than 12 hours before hostilities against dam Hussein's Army would end, a U.S. Air Force C-141 transport plane skidded to a halt at a darkened air base deep in the Saudi Arabian desert. Inside, an Air Force weapons specialist was already scrambling toward the forward exit. On the tarmac, a vehicle waited to carry the weapons expert to a high-security hangar. In the cargo hold of the C-141 were two highly unusual bombs. These were the product of a crash Air Force program that had not begun until January 19three days after the start of the air war. The two bombs, the first of their kind to be ...