Category Archives: IRAQ INVASION

When they set foot into Iraq ahead of the March 20 deadline, their mission was to find and seize the Scud missile sites from which the coalition feared Saddam might launch weapons of mass destruction at Israel to drag it into the conflict and provoke a backlash from other Arab countries. For such an important task – especially as weapons of mass destruction were the chief stated reason for the invasion – there was strangely “a near total lack of hard data on the number and location of Iraq’s launchers”, Palazzo wrote. Continue reading →