U.S. Air Force bombs AT&T !!

[Norman J. Meluch]

>From article <21583 at netcom.UUCP>, by jbreeden at netcom.UUCP (John Breeden):
> (San Jose Mercury News, Jan 17th, 1991)
> 
> IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - The opening shot of the war with Iraq was a 2,000 
> pound bomb dropped squarely into the AT&T building in downtown Bagdad by
> a Stealth fighter, an Air Force commander disclosed today.
 
myamin at cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) writes:
>AT&T says they don't have a building in Iraq; the report must refer
>to something else.  Maybe MCI?

NPR announced today that the building was not an AT&T building, but the
Iraqi PT&T (Public Telephone & Telegraph) building.  The pilots of the
mission were told to "think of it as 'their' version of AT&T".

Moreover they said that the amount of damage done by bombing the *top* of
of such a building was suspect, since most of the "critical" equipment
for telecommunications was probably stored underground, due to terrorist
concerns in the middle east.

						- Norm.
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