[DK Zimmerman]

Well, yes and no.

Depends mostly on how the emp is generated. If via nuke, your 200 mile radius is likely VERY low, but your description otherwise apt.

If by one of these new munitions, probably very high and definitely overblown in terms of extent. One of the sites provided before talks in terms of like .2 kms radius per AND results are dependent upon frequencies involved.

If you're after cable tv, I wouldn't consider Bagdad a terribly lucrative target. Oh, the hotel guests might complain, but the average joe on the street? The standard of life is probably somewhere about 200 years ago (US) for 60% or more of the Iraqi populace. They won't miss much, even if they're standing under one of these non-nukes when it goes off.

[Jake0001]

I agree. You can't blast someone back to the pre-industrial age if they are already there. Maybe our next brilliant plan should be to write and transmit a "super-worm" via the internet to take out their entire network of three computers.

Bin laden probably has more tanks and helicopters than Saddam hidden in Afghanistan because we blew up virtually everything Saddam had in 1991 and have prevented him from acquiring replacements.

However, how would we know such a thing would work? Where would we test such a thing? I suppose someone will say Iraq, but it begs the age-old question "if a tree falls and noone is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

[dinasour]

If you're after cable tv, I wouldn't consider Bagdad a terribly lucrative target

But you miss the point, we won't be targeting Saddam. We'll be going after CNN.

I can only imagine that they already have a crew on hand, with mechanical cameras, at some Baghdad Neonatal ICU in anticipation of their lead story:

"Bush and the dead babies. Does the U. S. deliberately target Iraqi children?"

The grieving mothers are on call 24/7.