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     TalU Airf:eld is one of lraq0s inajor~~l or MiraSc 2000 baics. `flii~ hudtncd a~&fi s1~e1:cr
was £Icsaoycd by an ~ 111.  (1~pc £Iopi~c~.)

     Ckncnal Scbwankopf: The Ttsult to dA!e of thi~ typc of atiac~ 1£ wc have desn~ycd more
than'?O of these hardencd shelters and quitc frankly. the Iraqi aircraft aic running out of places Jo
lude. We flow ~avc TtpaTtS that ~nany of their ~n'allct aircraft, they havt moved to roads and hidclen
the~ in sesidential ~tas that art close to airflc~ds, b~cause thcy kn~ w:'r: not attacking ti~0inn
targets. As you all well know0 89 of their aircraft -* and I should say these arc their front line r- I
Mii'~;, and their M1~23 ?tncers  S9 of thtni havt flown into Iran. Tlic sl~~e f~i of the niatter
ig, thai now tvery time an Iraqi £~pJ~ne takes off the ground, it's running away. As a result, Okiuck
1t)fl)eT, my CE~~AF Con~mander, has now claimed air £uprcmacy.

     I~d like to talk a little bit about ibe i~o0ation in the Xuwaitl ib:ate~ of ope~~t~ons. On~ Cf the
ovays we do this is by destroying `he brid~es that lead into the Kuwaiti theawr of op:rations area.
(~ shown) We've sargeted a so1&I of 36 ~ma~£. Of those 36 bridges, w~ Juive ~uacked 33 ~r
them wlth over~90 aort~£. Obviously, by shutting ortthe bndge£. we ~hut off the s~pp0y lines
that supply the forces in southern ~raq and in ili~ Kuw~u theater of opciations.

     J'~ itke 10 flOw Show you a little film of the destructIon of the britig~£ nurntcned one. lwD,
thn~, tnd ?ottr in order, and give YOU an i~a t'f~hat we're Lalking about. Would you sl~o~ the
video please?

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      The fint video is a railroad biidge. Obviously, they itave vtry.)iinited rail tints, ~ if ~`e ean
iakt t mIir~ad bt~~gt out, i( ihakes a big diffcsonoe. We try and hit right siw the aliot~ ~ `we been
lold, bewist that's Lhe most flifficult to sepMr and does the snost damage If you ~et in at that point.
~at's Onetod of the bricige. You~ll now see the same bridge again. Notiee ~~~~~5 where we bit
before  AZ)c Spa') `5 £ofle. W:tTt now hittIng the ~tbcr end of that railroad bnd~e.

     Next we're going to show you some versions of highway bridges. Yo~ mi~l~i ask on this next
shot why it is ~e'jt hitting the bridge ir' Ilie inittille. The ans'ver is, you Sec how cloudy it is. ~be
pilot just breaks out of the clouci and doesn't have a lot of tirne to get a sight on the brid~e, so he
just puts the sight where he can Ct) tIic bridge and bombs away.

     Another type of highway brid~ ~itl) a (iiffcttnt type of abutment structute  :he bfl~1~t, of
course, Tunfling this way now. I'm now ~oing to show you a picturt of the luckiest man in iraq on
this paruculu 




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