Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote:

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3038


http://www.cdi.org/issues/bmd/Patriot.html

During the Gulf War, the Patriot was assigned to shoot down incoming
Iraqi Scud or Al-Hussein Missiles launched at Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. Army which was in charge of the Patriots claimed an initial
success rate of 80% in Saudi Arabia and 50% in Israel. Those claims
were scaled back to 70 and 40 percent. (See Frontline, WGBH Educational
Foundation: "The Gulf War" and "Gulf War-A comprehensive guide to
people, places and weapons" by Boyne, Walter Colonel U.S.A.F. (Ret),
Signet 1991)

(Part of the reason the success rate was 30% higher in Saudi Arabia
than is Israel is that in Saudi Arabia the Patriots merely had to push
the incoming Scud missiles away from military targets in the desert or
disable the Scud's warhead in order to avoid casualties,

while in Israel the Scuds were aimed directly at cities and civilian
populations.