Rockets used in al-Rashid hotel match "aluminum tubes" rockets

On 26 Oct 2003 17:38:49 -0800, (Jack
Linthicum) wrote:

Robb McLeod wrote in message . ..
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
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It's a dark piece of irony, but you have to assume that it was known
that Wolfowitz was in the hotel and the rocket was specifically chosen
to reopen old wounds and cause Wolfowitz some political discomfiture.

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

The fin design is different however, and that's a pretty hefty rocket
to be holding in one hand as the soldier is doing in the Washington
Post picture.
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