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To: Alex who wrote (29177)	2/28/1999 4:21:00 PM
From: scotty	Respond to of 116790

Alex.....The Mideast is a powder keg..Lots of pent up hatred itching to be be released...Countries will be choosing sides some day for the BIG showdown.

To: Alex who wrote (29177)	2/28/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116790

Pentagon Unsure If Planes Hit Iraq Oil Pipeline 06:06 p.m Feb 28, 1999 Eastern WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon cannot say if a U.S. air attack earlier Sunday in northern Iraq hit a pumping station along a major oil pipeline and has stopped crude oil from flowing to Turkey, as alleged by Iraq. ''All indications are we hit our intended targets,'' which were an Iraqi air defense headquarters and radio relay station near the city of Mosul, about 240 miles (390 km) north of Baghdad, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters. However, the spokesman said damage assessment of the U.S. bombing was currently underway. An official with Iraq's Oil Ministry in Baghdad said that the attack ''resulted in the stoppage of crude oil pumping through the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline.'' The pipeline carries about half of Iraq's crude oil exports to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea. A military spokesman for the U.S. European Command said earlier Sunday that after coming under Iraqi attack, U.S. planes fired three air-to-ground missiles and three laser-guided bombs on the Iraqi air defense headquarters and radio relay A short time later F-15E aircraft dropped two 500-pound (230 kg) and three 2,000-pound (910 kg) laser guided bombs, he said. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited