Reply #98: More old debka malarky

[Chomskyite]

Apparently they thought Saddam had some kind of supergun that could launch containers of goo at our spy satellites. Read up and laugh:

Saddam Dusts off His Old Super Gun

January 9, 2002, 3:39 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saddam’s super-cannon of pre-Gulf War fame is making a comeback. In its newly adapted form, the fabled monster gun is designed to fire nuclear, chemical and biological shells at US military targets in the Gulf, Middle East, Red Sea and Mediterranean, as well as targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey and Israel. This was revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly in its last week’s issue.

In its original form, the gun was capable of firing a warhead at Tehran or Tel Aviv, having a range of 1,500 miles - or more, if boosted by a rocket.

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But Saddam never gave up his grandiose plans for the super gun. One was to blast into orbit the military satellites he was building just before the 1991 Gulf War. In 1992 and 1995, experiments were made to launch spacecraft that would collide with enemy satellites making surveillance passes over Iraqi territory. On impact, the spacecraft would explode and spray the satellites with an adhesive substance that would put their cameras and surveillance equipment out of action.

Touting his super gun, Saddam once boasted a missile could be launched only once but a cannon could be used repeatedly to fire projectiles.

US and Israeli intelligence were taken aback to discover that not one, but three or four super guns, have just turned up in Iraq’s arsenal – advanced and more effective versions of Bull’s invention. It comes in two models, both hidden in the underground city Iraq has build as a hideaway for its government, top officials and strategic utilities in case of war.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=123

I think debka is the Israeli National Enquirer for people who fantasize about being in Mossad.