U.S. Launches Massive Strikes on Iraq
Reports of the attack began just after noon EST, as television stations began reporting anti-aircraft bursts over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Just prior to that, television news services reported that the United States was firing artillery rounds into Iraq from behind the Kuwait border.
In southern Iraq, the Associated Press said that several small oil well fires had been detected. On the news, oil prices spiked, Bloomberg reported, but after the attacks began prices receded.
Some military analysts and news reports suggested that this was just another in a series of ramp-ups to the “shock and awe” campaign promised by U.S. military officials.
Late Wednesday night in the United States, but early Thursday morning in Iraq, the U.S. military launched a series of small strikes on southern Iraq and Baghdad (Click here for related coverage.)
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