They said the blast was caused by government shelling or even a Scud missile attack.
In the Gulf War, F-15Es flew mainly at night to hit Scud missile launchers and artillery sites.
During the Gulf War, SAS teams penetrated deep within Iraq to search for mobile Scud missile launchers.
At the end of the day, you have a ship that can't defend itself, even against a Hezbollah-fired scud missile.
"Hundreds of civilians have been killed by Scud missile strikes and Aleppo is being systematically destroyed, " the National Coalition statement said.
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In that incident, an Iraqi Scud missile hit U.S. barracks near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 troops and wounding more than 100.
Dr. Hamza revealed that Saddam now has a workable design for a small atomic weapon capable of being fitted aboard an extended-range Scud missile.
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The most deadly attack on American forces in the Gulf war occurred when a Scud missile fell on a supply base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Moreover, they are further augmented by Syria's massive Scud missile and artillery arsenals and by a frightening potential fifth column among Israeli Arabs in the Galilee.
Such officials contend that Israel, of all nations, should understand this reality in light of its having suffered the terror of no fewer than forty Scud missile attacks.
"Intelligence personnel are closely monitoring North Korea's readiness with its short, middle and long range missiles such as Scud missile, Nodong missile and Musudan missile, " South Korean defence ministry official Kim Min-seok said.
Iranian missile tests - including firing a Scud missile off a ship and flying the new Shahab 3 missile in a profile apparently designed to deliver a weapon into space - suggest that the mullahs are seeking an EMP capability.
Is it possible, therefore, that one could be transporting a Scud-type missile -- loaded, not in its hold under sacks of concrete, but onto a transporter-erector-launcher -- and remain undetected as it moved within range of one of America's many littoral population centers?
Such an attack has one other attraction: By bringing a Scud-type missile - of which there are thousands around the world, including the dozen or so North Korea delivered to Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, Yemen , a few years back - near the enemy's shoreline, strategic warning can be kept to an absolute minimum.
As in the previous two events, the Navy shot down an Aries rocket simulating a Scud class short to medium range missile.
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North Korea's missile program is based on Scud technology provided by the former Soviet Union or Egypt, according to American and South Korean officials.
The Jane's report also claimed that Assad's men had built new missile bays for specially adapted Scud missiles equipped to carry chemical warheads at the updated chemical weapons sites.
And last week, U.S. troops started arriving near the Turkish-Syrian border to man Patriot missile defense batteries, which are intended to intercept any Scud missiles that might cross into Turkey from Syria.
And last week, U.S. troops started arriving near the Turkish-Syrian border to man Patriot missile defense batteries, which are deployed to intercept any Scud missiles that might cross into Turkey from Syria.
Thus the 63rd and 72nd Missile Brigades of the Syrian army - holders of the Scud and SS-23s that could carry chemical warheads - are centred south-west of Aleppo in the far north of the country.
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