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U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida

By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer

March 11, 2003, 2:48 PM CST

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force tested for the first time the biggest
conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal Tuesday, a 21,000-pound munition that
could play a dramatic role in an attack on Iraq.

Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the test at Eglin Air Force Base,
Fla., was considered a success.

"It did what they expected it to do. Nothing malfunctioned," she said.

The bomb, officially called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, and
unofficially dubbed the Mother of All Bombs, is guided to its target by
satellite signals. It was dropped out the rear of a C-130 transport plane,
officials said.

The bomb is so powerful that its detonation was expected to create a
mushroom cloud visible for miles.

Some area residents felt the bomb's detonation but said the explosion was
not as big as they had expected.

"It was kind of weak," said Patricia Sariego, a receptionist at the Best
Western hotel in Navarre, on the southern edge of Eglin. She said the blast
shook doors.

Asked about the test at a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld would not say whether it would be used in an Iraq war, and he
refused to discuss its capabilities.

"This is not small," he said.

Separately, the Pentagon's No. 2 official said in a speech to the Veterans
of Foreign Wars that if President Bush decides to invade Iraq, it will be a
"war of liberation" as well as an effort to rid Iraq of weapons banned by
the United Nations.

"Those very weapons are the source of our concern," said Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz. "The issue is not about Iraqi oil. If the United
States had wanted access to Iraqi oil, we could have dropped our whole
policy 12 years ago, lifted the sanctions and let Saddam Hussein have his
weapons of mass destruction."

"No, if there's going to be a war, it will be a war to disarm Saddam's
weapons of mass terror," he said. "But it will also be, like wars that you
fought in, a war of liberation, a war to secure peace and freedom."

The U.S. military is putting the final pieces of combat power in place in
anticipation of an order by Bush to attack Iraq and depose Saddam, Iraq's
president. More than 200,000 U.S. forces are within striking range.

The Air Force bomb is much bigger than any other conventional bomb. The
next-biggest is the 15,000-pound BLU-82, dubbed the Daisy Cutter, created
during the Vietnam War to clear landing areas in the jungle.

Jake Swinson, spokesman for the Air Armament Center at Eglin Air Force Base,
Fla., said there was no onsite news coverage of the MOAB test for safety
reasons, but an Air Force chase plane took video that would be made
available later to news organizations.

Other officials said the Air Force expected to have the bomb available for
use in an Iraq war.

"If the war fighter wanted to use it, I'm sure we could make some
available," Swinson said, adding that he had no information whether or when
the weapon might be used in combat.

Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press

"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
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Did they drop it on Jeb's house?

Peter L wrote:

    > "Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
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    > Did they drop it on Jeb's house?


Maybe they thought it was Jeb's daughter "cooking" her daily heroin fix.....

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Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:
    > Peter L wrote:
    >
    >
    >>"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
    >>news:7xsba.889$S%[email protected]...
    > http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...-iraq-military,
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    >>>U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
    >>Did they drop it on Jeb's house?
    >

Picture on the cnn site.

Wonderful sex symbol actually.

Rumsfeld might skip a couple of days of viagra.

Peter L wrote:
    >
    > "Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
    > news:7xsba.889$S%[email protected]...
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    > > U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
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    > Did they drop it on Jeb's house?

We wish!
    > >

This has nothing to do with travel in Europe. Please
go away.


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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" schrieb:
    >
    > Peter L wrote:
    > >
    > > "Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
    > > news:7xsba.889$S%[email protected]...
    > > >
    > > >
    > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...-iraq-military,
    > > > 1,7101350.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
    > >
    > > Did they drop it on Jeb's house?
    >
    > We wish!
    > > >

Probably no-one realised, but Gregory Morrow and all these other
trollers
in reality are working for the government. The Feds monitor all the
emails in the group and then when the war starts, they go round and
intern
all the anti-war people.
So, careful what you write, big brother is reading.

tandp wrote:
    >
    > "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" schrieb:
    > >
    > > Peter L wrote:
    > > >
    > > > "Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
    > > > news:7xsba.889$S%[email protected]...
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...-iraq-military,
    > > > > 1,7101350.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > > U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
    > > >
    > > > Did they drop it on Jeb's house?
    > >
    > > We wish!
    > > > >
    >
    > Probably no-one realised, but Gregory Morrow and all these other
    > trollers
    > in reality are working for the government. The Feds monitor all the
    > emails in the group and then when the war starts, they go round and
    > intern
    > all the anti-war people.
    > So, careful what you write, big brother is reading.


The though HAD crossed my mind - Not Greg or the other posters, but "big
brother" in cyberland. However, when Americans can no longer say what
we think, life here won't be worth living, anyway. (Maybe, when we
become a slave state, some of our European friends will start an
"underground railway" to assist the escapees?)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

    > The though HAD crossed my mind - Not Greg or the other posters, but "big
    > brother" in cyberland. However, when Americans can no longer say what
    > we think, life here won't be worth living, anyway. (Maybe, when we
    > become a slave state, some of our European friends will start an
    > "underground railway" to assist the escapees?)

Now Evelyn, if I ever have to travel this modern "Underground Railway", I do
hope that your home is on the list of "safe places" -- I hear they have In
'n Out Burger in LA....!!!

Seriously, I grew up in downstate Illinois a few miles from the Mississippi
River. Several of the big houses in the area were rumoured to be way
stations for slaves on the Undergound Railroad...it's very interesting
history.

--
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Greg

Did you read that they had to push it by hand on
a pallet out the back door of the plane...Now
thetas "high tech" technology if I ever saw it.
Of course this inst a weapon of mass destruction is it!!!!!!!!
Jim
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"Devil" wrote in message
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    > Gregory Morrow wrote:
    > > Peter L wrote:
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    > >
    > >>"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
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q-military,
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    > >>>
    > >>>U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
    > >>
    > >>Did they drop it on Jeb's house?
    > >
    > Picture on the cnn site.
    > Wonderful sex symbol actually.
    > Rumsfeld might skip a couple of days of viagra.

Gregory Morrow schrieb:
    >
    > http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...-iraq-military,
    > 1,7101350.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
    >
    > U.S. Tests Massive Bomb in Florida
    >
    > By ROBERT BURNS
    > AP Military Writer
    >
    > March 11, 2003, 2:48 PM CST
    >
    > WASHINGTON -- The Air Force tested for the first time the biggest
    > conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal Tuesday, a 21,000-pound munition that
    > could play a dramatic role in an attack on Iraq.
    >
    > Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the test at Eglin Air Force Base,
    > Fla., was considered a success.
    >

Yes, but when are we going to get the incubator story?

Evelyn wrote:

    >The though HAD crossed my mind - Not Greg
    > or the other posters, but "big brother" in
    > cyberland. However, when Americans can no
    > longer say what we think, life here won't be
    > worth living, anyway. (Maybe, when we
    > become a slave state, some of our European
    > friends will start an "underground railway" to
    > assist the escapees?)


Become? We're practically there. The policies and decisions are being
made by a small circle behind closed doors and where is there any
opposition. OUR CONGRESS SIMPLY RUBBER STAMPS THE PRESIDENT. For
speaking out, some very non-violent protesters now have police records.

In the early 1930's, a German comedian (I think it was Werner Fink)
said, "In Germany we can say what we think, but we must think very
carefully."

Sandor

Jimmy.john wrote:


    > Did you read that they had to push it by hand on
    > a pallet out the back door of the plane...Now
    > thetas "high tech" technology if I ever saw it.
    > Of course this inst a weapon of mass destruction is
it!!!!!!!!


"Paging Dr. Strangelove!"

--
Best
Greg