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Article: Air Force used huge new bomb on Iraqi high command
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 16, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- Senior Iraqi military officers were the target of a
powerful new bomb dropped by the US Air Force on Iraqi command
bunkers in the final days of the Persian Gulf War, an Air Force
general confirmed yesterday.
The conventional bomb's existence and its use against bunkers
near Baghdad was disclosed this month by the magazine Aviation Week &
Space Technology, which said the Air Force denied it was targeting
Saddam Hussein.
Gen. Ronald Yates, chief of the Air Force Systems Command, told
reporters the GBU-28 bomb was dropped on a single target, which he
described as a command and control complex containing "senior staff"
of the Iraqi military.
The magazine said the bomb was ...