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…..”
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…….
What happens?
