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	Decapitation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Decapitation, or beheading, is the removal of a living being's head, typically resulting in death.
		Decapitation by guillotine was a common form of execution invented shortly before the French Revolution (although an earlier version of the guillotine, the gibbet, was used in England until the 17th century).
		The use of decapitation has been discontinued in part because of suspicion that the severed head may in certain cases continue to be alive to some extent and capable of feeling pain.
	decapitation.kiwiki.homeip.net (1612 words)

	Decapitation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, or knife, or by means of a guillotine.
		Decapitation by guillotine was a common form of execution invented shortly before the French Revolution (although an earlier version of the guillotine, the gibbet, was used in Britain until the 17th century).
		Decapitation is similarly used as a military term to refer to the targeting of the leader of a country or army, such as the United States' "decapitation attempt" against Saddam Hussein.
	decapitation.iqnaut.net (1638 words)

	Decapitation strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the theory of nuclear warfare, a decapitation strike is a first strike attack that aims to remove the command and control mechanisms of the opponent, in the hope that it will severely degrade or destroy its capacity for nuclear retaliation.
		A failed decapitation strike carries the risk of immediate massive retaliation undertaken by the targeted opponent.
		Other nuclear warfare doctrines explicitly exclude decapitation strikes, on the basis that it is better to preserve the adversary's command and control structures so that a single authority remains which is capable of negotiating a surrender or ceasefire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decapitation_strike (325 words)

	Iraq War Begins with Decapitation Strike
		The strikes in Baghdad at 8:33 AM local were a departure from the carefully scripted battle plan.
		The war began with a pre-emptive decapitation strike against Saddam Hussein, who was holding a meeting with his generals.
		The strike at Saddam in the opening salvo of the war upset the entire war plan and exposed the nature of the war as a personal vendetta between President Bush and Saddam Hussein.
	www.biblenews1.com /history3/20030319.htm (1003 words)

	Beheading in the Name of Islam - Middle East Quarterly
		Sura (chapter) 47 contains the ayah (verse): "When you encounter the unbelievers on the battlefield, strike off their heads until you have crushed them completely; then bind the prisoners tightly."[11] The Qur'anic Arabic terms are generally straightforward: kafaru means "those who blaspheme/are irreligious," although Darb ar-riqab is less clear.
		Examples of decapitation, of both the living and the dead, in Islamic history are myriad.
		Islamic civilization is not a historical anomaly in its sanction of decapitation.
	www.meforum.org /article/713 (3012 words)

	First strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In nuclear strategy, first strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation.
		First-strike attack, that is, the use of a nuclear first strike capability, was greatly feared during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
		Of particular note in his article is that an American nuclear first strike (possibly using the B61-11 bunker-buster nuclear weapon) is under consideration to eliminate underground Iranian uranium enrichment facilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_strike (1052 words)

	The Twilight of the Decapitation Military
		The key part about the decapitation military is that it faces the full might of the state, destroys it in pitched battle, then simply takes over.
		You strike for Baghdad, isolating troops along the way, the army collapses and the Iraqis (for about 6 months, anyway) admit they've lost.
		Thanks!) There can be no fast decapitation strike, you will have to defeat the army in detail, one unit at a time.
	agonist.org /node/33360/print (1484 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Decapitation strategies short circuit command and control systems, wipe out nationwide nerve centers, and leave the opponent hopelessly lost.
		Now with a potential decapitation strategy believed to be in the works, US defense officials are beginning to think what had once been unthinkable: losing Taiwan in only seven days.
		China's deployment of its special forces and rapid-deployment forces, combined with air power and missile strikes, is the most likely formula for successfully taking Taiwan with the least amount of effort and damage.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FD10Ad02.html (2969 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		And of course everyone remembers the first shot of the Iraq War — a precision "decapitation strike" in the heart of a residential neighborhood.
		America can assassinate and decapitate, send in gunships and missiles, surround and lock down whole towns, and round up and detain suspects by the hundreds in its war on terror creating one standard.
		That said, Israel should deploy long-range snipers, helicopter gunships, assassination and decapitation and all the other tactics regretfully needed in a war against terror that has been embedded within a civilian setting.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=10761 (704 words)

	Decapitation
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	decapitation.sounderpro.net (993 words)

	BREAKTHROUGH - Overlapping False Alarms: Reason for Concern?
		"Decapitation" is a strategy in which one nation, fearing an imminent attack by the other, strikes at the opponent's national leaders and command centers.
		With each nation aware that the other might consider a decapitation strike, there is tremendous pressure to strike first.
		To counter decapitation and similar strategies, LOW or LUA would initiate a counterattack as soon as reliable evidence is received that a nuclear attack is under way, before the enemy missiles arrive.
	www-ee.stanford.edu /~hellman/Breakthrough/book/chapters/sennott.html (1737 words)

	CNN.com - 'Decapitation strike' was aimed at Saddam - Mar. 20, 2003
		The decision to launch a "decapitation strike" aimed at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was made by President Bush during an urgently called meeting Wednesday evening in which the CIA director voiced concern that a prime opportunity could be lost, U.S. officials said.
		The decision to launch the strike came during the four-hour Oval Office meeting of Bush's national security team that included a briefing from CIA Director George Tenet.
		But beyond the mentioned date, the speech made no specific reference to Thursday morning's strike, leaving the question open of whether the message was taped before or after the attack.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/20/sprj.irq.target.saddam/index.html (602 words)

	Quick 'Decapitation Strike' Fails; France, Russia Deplore War
		Dozens of ship-launched cruise missiles and U.S. stealth F-117 warplanes fired limited "decapitation strikes" at dawn in Baghdad Thursday, aimed to kill senior Iraqi leaders.
		At Camp New Jersey — one of at least two encampments in the Kuwaiti desert where soldiers scrambled into their protective gear because of missile attacks — U.S. officers said that one of the missiles appeared to be an al-Samoud 2, which is smaller than the Scud missile used broadly in the first Gulf war.
		The first shots of a U.S.-led war in Iraq were fired in an apparent attempt to strike at the heart of the Iraqi regime.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0320-03.htm (1105 words)

	The Baghdad Strikes
		The officers at the CAOC were told they needed to prepare a stealthy F-117 fighter to strike a bunker in downtown Baghdad.
		The goal was to complete the Baghdad strike before dawn, which was only a few hours away.
		It was unclear whether either the March 20 or April 7 strike had succeeded in ending the life of a vicious dictator.
	www.afa.org /magazine/july2003/0703strikes.asp (2549 words)

	Saddam Reappears
		Since the attempted decapitation strike on March 20th, Saddam did not make a totally convincing appearance.
		Three Iraqis who spied for the CIA and disclosed the location of Saddam Hussein before the attempted decapitation attack on March 20th, were executed this week.
		The attempted decapitation strike on Saddam Hussein occurred at 5:36 AM Baghdad time March 20.
	www.biblenews1.com /history3/20030404.htm (770 words)

	Decapitation strike biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the theory of nuclear warfare, a decapitation strike is an attack that aims to remove the command and control mechanisms of the opponent, in the hope that it will severely degrade or destroy its capacity for nuclear retaliation.
		A failed decapitation strike carries the risk of immediate massive retaliation by the side that the decapitation strike was aimed at.
		Since the availability of high-precision guided conventional weapons, this strategy has actually been attempted by the United States using conventional warheads in an attack on Saddam Hussein at the start of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
	www.biography.ms /Decapitation_strike.html (122 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. launches cruise missiles at Saddam - Mar. 20, 2003
		Administration sources said the decision to strike came after a nearly four-hour meeting in the Oval Office in which CIA Director George Tenet and Pentagon officials told Bush they could lose the "target of opportunity" if they didn't act quickly; Bush then gave the green light.
		Hours later, a defiant Saddam wearing a military uniform appeared on Iraqi television to denounce the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal" and to say his countrymen would be victorious.
		F117 stealth fighters, which carry two 2,000-pound bombs apiece, also were involved in the strikes, though apparently on a target other than Saddam.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/19/sprj.irq.main/index.html (1069 words)

	TCS Daily - The Art of Aerial Assassination
		Several decapitation strikes since 2003 have failed despite increasingly sophisticated weapons and sensors, due to intelligence failures.
		The strike was launched based on reports that the Iraqi leader was at the site, when in fact he hadn't visited in months.
		Prior to Wednesday, the only successful major "decapitation" strike had been in Yemen on Nov. 4, 2002, when a CIA-operated Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile that killed Abu Ali, one of the masterminds of the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole destroyer that killed 17 sailors.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=060906E (1134 words)

	A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog
		Decapitation strikes against the USSR would have made it more likely that the USSR would launch nukes, therefore we developed an aversion to using this strategy.
		And the best thing about decapitation strikes is you don't have to go to the lil ole Congress and get a declaration of war.
		Since the President's policies now allow any President to kill terrorists, as defined by the Executive branch, or to preemptively act against anyone who threatens us, no matter how tangentally, I think that there are a lot of governments in the world who are very afraid.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100187/2003/03/24.html (1780 words)

	James S. Robbins on Operation Iraqi Freedom on National Review Online
		The war-opening "decapitation" strike on senior Iraqi leadership elements was a bold and unplanned action, an opportunity shot that apparently disrupted planning on both sides.
		Decapitation has a logical temptation, a close connection between objective and method.
		If the decapitation strike missed Saddam, it may have reinforced his belief that he is divinely protected, as Hitler believed after repeated failed attempts on the life.
	www.nationalreview.com /robbins/robbins032103.asp (958 words)

	Guardian \| Assassination attempt alters battle plan
		It appears that US military intelligence thought they knew where Saddam Hussein was, along with other members of his regime, and proposed a "decapitation strike".
		Details of last night's "decapitation strike" are still sketchy, but it seems they targeted two sites on the southern outskirts of Baghdad.
		Today, Iraq responded to the "decapitation strike" with a radio message from Saddam's son, Udai, followed by the information minister who told listeners "victory is certain, certain, certain", and finally a TV appearance by Saddam Hussein (or at least someone looking very much like him).
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4629319-111385,00.html (747 words)

	Word Spy - decapitation strike
		The apparent aim was to kill the Iraqi dictator and either prompt his army to surrender or, at the very least, create chaos in the upper echelons of Iraq's leadership at the outset of the war.
		Though I don't think it was made a big issue, we thought we'd killed Saddam during the Gulf War, and there actually was a celebration of the fact.
		As reconstructed by the Wall Street Journal last week, the doomsday exercise was designed to test the government's ability to function in the event of a "decapitation strike" — a nuclear attack aimed at the central nervous system of military and civilian control.
	www.wordspy.com /words/decapitationstrike.asp (433 words)

	History for USS Cowpens - CG 63
		USS Cowpens (CG 63) has the distinction of firing the very first Tomahawk cruise missile in the much-publicized "decapitation strike" that began the 2nd Gulf War.
		While it is unknown who may have been killed in the strike, it appears that Saddam and one of his sons escaped the strike.
		Due to the last minute nature of the operation, much of the crew was not informed, and many awoke to the sounds of missiles being launched.
	military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,200441\|769730,00.html (158 words)

	Freedom's Heroes: The Road to Baghdad
		An early attempt at a decapitation strike of "bunker busters" and a barrage of cruise missiles from four US ships and two submarines has shaken Saddam's regime but not knocked it out.
		Now, operators from Delta Force and the CIA's Special Operations Group are on the ground in Baghdad, laser-painting targets for ongoing bombing runs, while the elite Air Force combat controllers are seizing territory in the western part of the country to prevent retaliatory Scud attacks on Israel, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia.
		Coalition troops are under pressure close the deal quickly, as reports surface of Turkish troops coming in through the north to launch strikes against the Kurdish territories and possibly split the country.
	www.kumawar.com /FreedomsHeroes/detail.php (566 words)

	Saddam is STILL Dead! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We've already had the evidence-by-absence during the fighting, i.e., total lack of central control after the decapitation strike, not a single piece of signal intelligence capturing his voice or other evidence of his existence, the reports from the ground at the decapitation strike of frantic digging activity.
		The same British Intel that saw the "frantic digging" and SH carried on a stretcher into an ambulance at site of the decapitation strike did not report any sight of SH's sons during the recovery efforts.
		John Loftus claims that the second strike on the restaurant was a sting operation set up by Russian advisors sympathetic to SH who wanted to show the surviving Iraqi leadership that their phone lines were compromised.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/953372/posts (1338 words)

	The Triumph of Surgical Strikes
		The air strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is a triumph for the U.S. military, which for years has labored to increase the flexibility and lethality of its aircraft and decrease the time it takes to put bombs on target, while basing its attacks on solid intel.
		Prior to Wednesday, the only successful major "decapitation" strike had been in Yemen on Nov. 4, 2002, when a CIA-operated aerial drone fired a Hellfire missile that killed Abu Ali, one of the masterminds of the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole destroyer that killed 17 sailors.
		Indeed, the opening shot of the U.S. invasion was a bomb dropped on Dora Farms, one of Saddam's country retreats, on March 20, 2003.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,100459,00.html (1615 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: World -- Massive Air Strikes Leave Baghdad Burning
		Like the attempted "decapitation" strike that targeted Saddam and the multi-layered propaganda effort that followed, the latest bombardment of Saddam's power centers is to destroy the enemy's will to resist (and capacity to communicate), rather than to physically eliminate his fighting forces.
		Air strikes have also blasted targets in the key northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, where unconfirmed reports also suggest U.S. airborne troops may have seized control of important oilfields.
		Although coalition forces encountered some significant resistance at Umm Qasr and elsewhere in the south, the military units on which Saddam is depending to stand and fight have been deployed closer to Baghdad.
	www.time.com /time/world/printout/0,8816,435390,00.html (599 words)

	MND DENIES REPORT ABOUT FORMING 400-MEMBER SPECIAL FORCE
		Taipei, March 21 (CNA) The Ministry of National Defense Monday denied the existence of any plan to organize an additional elite unit for counter-terrorism or to guard against a "decapitation strike" from China as reported by local media.
		According to the media report, the ROC Army is planning to organize a 400-member elite unit to cope with possible terrorist attacks and China's "decapitation attack" against Taiwan.
		Decapitation strategies short-circuit command and control systems, wipe out nationwide nerve centers and leave the opponent hopelessly immobilized.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2005/taiwan-050321-cna03.htm (410 words)

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