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http://web.archive.org/web/20071016...ite/english/endocpdf/24pBalmissileenglish.pdf

“On the evening of Saturday 16 February 1991, an Iraqi Al Hussein missile fell into the water, hundreds of meters from a quay in the vast harbor complex of Al Jubayl, in the east of Saudi Arabia. The Americans discovered with a retrospective dread that a gigantic disaster would have occurred if the impact of the ballistic missile had been shifted by only a few hundred meters. The immense quay was indeed encumbered by an ammunition storage zone, which contained, in particular, 155-mm artillery shells, close to a vast parking lot for army trucks, including fuel suppliers. In the immediate vicinity of this "powder keg", several ships were moored, among them the USS Tarawa (LHA-1),crammed with Marines, helicopters, ammunition...Only 200 or 300 meters closer, a blast near the quay would have caused the destruction of these ships, and would have been accompanied by staggering human losses…..”:eek:


SO, on Saturday 16th February 1991, An Iraqi Al Hussein missile falls on an ammunition storage zone in Al Jubayl harbor, causing a massive ammunition explosion that destroys the storage zone, and much of the harbor along with it, along with a parking lot of trucks nearby, and also several ships, including the USS Tarawa, and also causes tens of thousands of casualties…….:eek:


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