European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 19, 19& strike on Iraq the stars and stripes Page 3 a reporter holds a piece of shrapnel allegedly from a Tomahawk missile which the iraqis claim was found in the rubble at the at Rashid hotel in Baghdad. Iraqis show fragments to Back missile claim new York a a missile slams into the courtyard of Baghdad s al Rashid hotel a favorite with foreign journalists and iraqis produce a fragment of machinery bearing the name of a . Company. Is it As would appear from a . Cruise missile no foreign reporters actually saw the piece removed but an iraqi army photographer shows journalists several other fragments that support such a hypothesis. A Pentagon official said . Mili tary planners a a absolutely had not targeted the High Rise hotel which was playing Host to an iraqi organized islamic popular conference to a condemn american  the missile struck the hotel during sundays Tomahawk cruise missile barrage of an iraqi Industrial site Southeast of Baghdad. Iraq said two people were killed and television reports showed the body of a woman identified As a hotel receptionist. An iraqi firefighter showed reporters a chunk of Metal containing some gears that he said was pulled from the wreckage. It was marked a Williams International Jacksonville Florida. Series 9039. N00019-89-c-0204." Williams International corp., based in walled Lake mich., makes Turbofan engines for the Tomahawk. Uster inst year Udud that Only lied during the by new Day Washington the sea launched Tomahawk cruise missile touted by the Navy As a nearly flawless High tech Marvel May have lost some of its a when defense analysts Cone half the 288 missiles launch persian Gulf War hit their targets. Nevertheless because the Tomahawk keeps pilots out of harm s Way it remains an enormously valuable weapon for some critical missions such As sundays attack on the Nudera production Plant in the suburbs of Baghdad experts said. A the main reason. That we wanted to use the missiles was because it did not put . Personnel in jeopardy a a _ by Marlin Fitz water said after the launching of More Tomahawk ii White House press Secretary in filing than 40 tomahawks at several buildings at the Plant. Navy consultant Norman Polmar said Pentagon officials told him before the launch that president Bush ordered the Tomahawk attack because he a did no to want to present or. Clinton with a pile of pos on his first Day  a related reason for limiting the attack to tomahawks was that Bush sought to Send a message to the iraqi population by. Selecting a target near Baghdad which is much More heavily defended than the no Fly zone South of the 32nd parallel that was struck by Allied bombers wednesday. Hitting heavily defended High value military targets is the tomahawks primary role. Of the 288 missiles fired during operation desert storm 116 were launched during the first 24 hours slamming into critical air defense radar and command and control centers and helping to a a Blind iraqi air defences for the bombing sorties that followed Polmar said. The Navy has claimed that 85 percent of the missiles were successful during the persian Gulf War. But classified defense analyses leaked last year concluded that they hit their intended target Only sightly More than half the time. Ship launched cruise missiles Are capable of hitting Distant targets with either a nuclear or. Conventional High explosive warhead with great precision. This missile is by general dynamics. Length 21 feet diameter 21 inches Wirtz Span 8 feet 6 inches cruise engine 605 pounds thrust Turbofan Range 1,550 Miles land attack version 279 Miles anti ship version cruising Speed 550mph source Jona a weapon systems Apro amp a Loro. The Tomahawk is a 21-foot-Long jct powered drone with a Range of up to 1,550 Miles and a warhead of just less than 1,000 pounds. On its Way to its programmed target it hugs the contour of the terrain to make it difficult for radar to detect. But it is by no Means foolproof. A it essentially Flics around like a Pilot Reading a map a said a congressional defense staff aide who did not want to be identified. A it works As Long As something strange does no to happen like the group disappears under a Cloud. If that happens at a Point where you need to make a correction and it does no to make the correction it can go off in a totally different direction a like a Hundred Miles  sirens blare amid Rumor of scud attack Dhahran saudi Arabia apr air raid sirens went off monday in this Eastern saudi arabian City which Allied warplanes Are using in the Campaign against Iraq. Sirens were also heard in the City of Kuwait the sirens went off As rumours circulated in the persian Gulf that Iraq had fired a scud missile military and aviation officials could not confirm any such attack but offered confusing accounts of what triggered the air raid sirens. The saudi alarm went off about 11 50 . As reports were emerging about a new air raid on Iraq by .-led allies. The All Clear sounded about five minutes later. Officials at the civil defense office for saudi arabians Eastern province initially said there was a test then said the Siren was triggered by Accident. It said it was checking further. Dhahran has the sprawling air base used by ., British and French warplanes which Monitor iraqis nobly zone in Southern Iraq. In Kuwait sirens went off near Kuwait International Airport. A senior air Force officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said Quot it was a false  Iraq fired about 40 scuds each at saudi Arabia and Israel during the 1991 persian Gulf  warning Steve Philips an army sergeant from Phenix City ala., cleans his weapon monday at a Barracks in Doha Kuwait. Philips was preparing to participate in Maneu vers at a base near the iraqi Border. The . War games Are designed to warn Iraq against launching an attack on Kuwait. L