If I were Saddam, I would save every missile I had for the fighting around Baghdad. It appears that is what may be happening.

United States military officials say they bombed several Iraqi missile launchers last night. But the Iraqi missile batteries now appear to be heading north on the highway out of Basra so they can fire at the right flank of the American troops as they advance toward Baghdad.

"They are not out of the game," said Brig. Gen. Howard Bromberg, the commander of the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, which is commanding the Patriots batteries in the Persian Gulf region. "They are repositioning."

Iraq has fired six Ababil-100 missiles, at the 101st Airborne division, at an allied air base in Kuwait, at the command center for the land war, at a huge Marine logistics area and at other important targets.

I haven't seen any reports concerning capturing Scud sites in the western areas, which is the only area they could hit Israel. I think we had those sites scouted or destroyed very early in this campaign.