THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
The Guardian (UK)
April 1, 2003

Market Explosion Caused by U.S. Missile

by Brian Whitaker

. . . The explosion in a Baghdad market which killed more than 60 people last Friday was indeed caused by a cruise missile and not an Iraqi anti-aircraft rocket as the US has suggested.

A metal fragment found at the scene by British journalist Robert Fisk carried various markings, including "MFR 96214 09". This, our reader pointed out in an email, is a manufacturer's identification number known as a "cage code".

Cage codes can be looked up on the internet--www.gidm.dlis.dla.mil, and keying in the number 96214 traces the fragment back to a plant in McKinney, Texas, owned by the Raytheon Company.

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