ABSTRACT

A CNN website, ‘The Unfinished War’, shows an undistinguished image in its section on smart weapons used during the 1991 Gulf War. The grainy grey of the photograph is typical of the ‘missile-eye’ television images released by the Pentagon at the time. It is, as the website says, a smart bomb image that provided ‘one of the most memorable television clips of the war, pinpointing an elevator shaft at the Iraqi Air Force headquarters in Baghdad’ (CNN 2001).