Washington - President Saddam Hussein of Iraq "is still a menace" a decade after the Gulf War, President Bush said after a near-miss attempt by the Iraqi military to shoot down a high-flying US U-2 spy plane.
An Iraqi missile narrowly missed the plane patrolling the southern "no-fly zone" of the country, US officials said yesterday. The pilot saw an anti-aircraft missile streak towards him and explode nearby, close enough for him to feel the shockwave from the blast, during the incident on Wednesday, a US air force official said.