Tuesday, April 01, 2003

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HEMMER:.."The other thing ... [is] it changes the psychology of the engagement as well. I want to get a comment on that in a moment, but we're watching these pictures somewhere in northern Iraq near the town of Erbil. ... I think you see it as a bomber. What does this say to you -- broad daylight flying at a reasonably lower altitude?"

SHEPPERD: ..."It makes perfect sense to me. There are thick contrails, probably by a bomber. Lots of bomber operations [are] going on up north as they hit the forward areas of the Republican Guard and Iraqi army deployed in that area. They're hitting trenches; they're hitting command posts.

Some of it is dumb bombs; some of it is very smart bombs if they can get specific intelligence, but it indicates that up in that area they're not afraid of any radar-guided threat. There are probably still some radar-guided threats down in Baghdad. Anything down there will be accompanied by jamming and harm missile-shooting aircraft."


ummm......

Kansas @ 8:07 PM