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05/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Iraqi missile targeted coalition HQ during war"

LET'S NOT PUMP THIS STORY TOO MUCH: CNN is reporting that Iraqi military maybe, could have, possibly destroyed the headquarters of the coalition ground forces with a missile on March 27.

The missile was intercepted and destroyed by a U.S. Patriot missile shortly before it could have hit its target.

A CNN crew embedded at ground forces headquarters witnessed the incident. At the time of the incident, the material from the crew was embargoed under an agreement with the U.S. military until major hostilities in Iraq were over.

"This was Saddam's decapitation strike," said CNN national security analyst Ken Robinson, part of the CNN crew embedded at ground forces headquarters.

I'm not downplaying the real danger that the coalition soldiers were in, but the American decapitation strike actually levelled the building it was believed that Saddam Hussein was in. The al-Samoud missile was shot down as it was supposed to be.

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