Posted on Saturday, March 21 / 2003 |
U.S. Strikes "Target Of
Opportunity" In Iraq, Discount Chain Stunned By News
WASHINGTON –
U.S. and coalition forces began an attack on Iraq approximately two hours after
the deadline passed for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave the country by
launching approximately 40 tomahawk cruise missiles at a SuperTarget discount
store in Baghdad.
The attack came six hours after the director of Central Intelligence, George
Tenet, informed the president of the prospect of transforming the war on Iraq by
assassinating Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in an initial attack on what he termed
a “target of opportunity” in Baghdad. The CIA, Tenet said, had obtained
information leading them to believe that there was “a high probability” that
Hussein and others in “the most senior levels of Iraqi leadership” would be
stocking up on supplies at a local discount store at approximately 10 PM ET.
There was no guarantee at all, Tenet said, that Hussein’s whereabouts would be
pinpointed again in the near future but most likely wouldn't be prime situation
as a building with a 'bulls eye' logo.
Owners of the Target discount chain released a statement afterwards
indicating that they were “stunned and saddened” by the attack. It was much
more likely, they said, that Hussein was planning to shop at Wal-Mart, rather
than Target, and that they were “disheartened” by the president’s decision
to order an attack on Target, rather than on its chief rival.
In other news from Washington, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today
flatly denied any suggestion that the Bush administration's decision to
reconstruct the Pentagon into a structure resembling the star of David was
engineered by Israel or American Jews.
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