(Jack Linthicum) wrote in
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Robb McLeod wrote in message
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There's a picture of the type of rocket used in the attack on the
al-Rashid hotel where Wolfowitz was staying:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-s...p10-26-03a.jpg

Just from the picture you can tell that the length to diameter
ratio of the rocket is 11:1.

It's known that the "aluminum tubes"
of centrifuge infamy had the dimensions 81 x 900 mm, which matches
the size of the pictured rocket quite well.

It's generally accepted now that those tubes where actually
intended for helicopter fired rocket casings.

http://www.isis-online.org/publicati.../al_tubes.html

Mayhap it was a 122mm artillery rocket, they seem to be in every
bunker opened in Iraq and were much used by the bad Viets in
Vietnam. Papers seem to think the things were RPGs.
http://www.landscaper.net/images/122mmrockt.jpg

According to CNN they were 68mm and 85mm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...tel/index.html

Go down to the 3rd paragraph under the bold "Dempsey: Missile launcher
primitive but clever"