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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (120321)	3/13/2001 1:08:19 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, this very sad. But why can't they drop a bomb on amazon.bomb? >Published: March 13 2001 01:10GMT \| Last Updated: March 13 2001 04:22GMT A bomb dropped by a US Navy jet during a training exercise over Kuwait on Monday accidentally killed at least five servicemen, US officials said. The 500lb bomb was dropped by a US Navy F/A-18, based on the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in the Gulf. Four of the dead were American servicemen observing the training exercise, while another was a New Zealander assigned to Kuwait. The accident happened in darkness near Udara, some 30 miles south of Kuwait's border with Iraq, where military training exercises are held almost year round. The military teams on the ground were directing aircraft to specific targets. The bomb was not precision guided but a conventional gravity bomb. The exercises are meant as a demonstration of the commitment of the US and other governments to the defence of Kuwait, following the 1991 Gulf war. Speaking in Florida, President George W. Bush asked for a moment of silence at the opening of a speech on military spending and his budget proposals. "I'm reminded today [Monday] of how dangerous service can be," he said. There were conflicting reports about the casualties from the accident, with some reports suggesting as many as 10 people were also injured. Mainstream public opinion in Kuwait is unlikely to be inflamed by the accident, according to recent comments from officials and private sector analysts, who say most Kuwaitis have accepted that such events could occur, given the numbers of US forces in Kuwait. The US maintains some 5,000 ground forces at Camp Doha, about 30km north of Kuwait City, in the first lines of defence against any renewed Iraqi incursion, as well as training Kuwaiti forces. The US also keeps pre-positioned equipment sufficient for an armoured brigade. More than 2,000 US airforce men and women are also based in Kuwait. But the accident is likely to increase Kuwaiti sensitivity to criticism from several Arab countries of its perceived over-dependence on US forces. Such sensitivity will be acute in the run-up to the Arab summit which opens in Amman on March 24, which Iraq will attend.