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Monday, April 8, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Gulf questions and answers
Much is yet to be resolved with Saddam and the gulf
The Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY — The Persian Gulf War has left behind many unanswered questions. Here is a look at some of the unresolved issues.
Q: What happened to the oil spill off the coasts of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?
A: Saudi Arabian officials have estimated that the giant spill fouling the Persian Gulf from southern Kuwait to Abu Al Island just north of the Saudi port of Al-Jauhaj contains 5 million barrels of oil.
Clean-up haws have collected about 425,000 barrels of oil and have laid booms in strategic areas, especially around the world's largest oceans, which processes 230 million gallons of water a day during the summer.
A: Fleeing Iraqi troops set ablaze
about 600 oil wells in Kuwait and
damaged hundreds of others, causing
pollution in the air and on the
ground.
The spill already has killed thousands of birds and fouled miles of beaches. Experts say it could take years to clean.
Experts say they have no way to determine the long-term health effects, but doctors already report an increased severity and number of lung disorders.
Q: When will the oil fires be extinguished and what is the extent of the pollution?
Experts estimate that it will take up to two years to extinguish all the fires. In Kuwait, the smoke turns day into night, as well over large swathes of the country.
U. S. Army doctors have said that at least five U.S. service members have been sent home from Kuwait with pneumonia. The doctors think the conditions were complicated by the smoke.
Q: When will life in Kuwait return to normal?
A: Electricity has been restored,
banks have re-opened, most people
have running water and staple foods
are generally available in stores. The
return of these essential services has provided some sense of normalcy for the first time since the Iraqi invasion.
But the government resigned March 19, and new leadership has yet to be named. Businesses have been burned and looted and many will be forced to re-enter schools. No are expected to re-open until the latter half of the year.
Kuwait's population has fallen from about 2 million before the Iraqi invasion to as little as 700,000. Some parts of Kuwait City are largely deserted and likely to remain so for months, if not longer. Reconstruction of buildings and other facilities will take years.
Q: When are all the Kuwaiti prisoners likely to be freed?
A: The Kuwaiti government says 11,000 to 12,000 kuwaitis, both soldiers and civilians, were taken to Iraq during the occupation. Roughly half have returned and more are living almost daily through Saudi Arabia.
No one knows how many Kuwaitis died during occupation. Initial government estimates put the number of dead and missing at more than 20,000. But interviews with hospital records suggest that most who stayed in Kuwait during occupation suggest that the number killed is probably around 2,000 to 4,000.
Q: Have all the Iraqi minefields in Kuwait been found?
A: No, and it could take years to find and remove most of them. French mine-sweepers needed three years of training, a yard-strip of beach in Kuwait City.
Military officials estimate that the Iraqis planted hundreds of thousands of mines. The French said that as of Friday they had removed 9,300.
Unexploded ordnance, mainly from U.S. cluster bombs, is also a serious problem. Three or four people a day are being injured in blasts, and many of them are children playing with the explosives.
Q: Why did Iraq not use chemical weapons?
A: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. commander, said he doubted he ever would know why.
He speculated that intensive bombing during the air war destroyed artillery and aircraft used to launch chemical shells.
Gen. Sir Peter de la Biliere, the British commander, speculated on several other possibilities: the speed of the ground war, bad weather and a breakdown of battlefield communications.
Other possibilities include Iraq's fear of nuclear retaliation and the physical degradation of Iraq's chemical weapons, which could not be removed without damage to their chemical facilities by allied bombs, Schwarzkopf said.
Q: What has happened to the Iraqi airplanes flown to Iran?
A: Lt. Gen. Charles Horner, the allied air commander, said there were conflicting reports from Iran on the report of the 137 Iraqi aircraft flown there.
One said Teheran planned to keep them as reparation for the Iran-Iraq War. Another said they would be restored to Saddam Hussein.
Q: What is the U.S. role in Iraq?
Q: What is the U.S. Foe in Iraq?
A: About 100,000 U.S. troops from the VII Corps are occupying parts of southern Iraq, keeping the peace along a demarcation line until a permanent cease-fire is signed. While the U.S. is giving food and medical aid to refugees fleeing the civil war in Iraq, the Bush administration has refused to intervene to help the rebels fighting Saddam Hussein.
Q: When will U.S. forces leave Iraq?
A: They will depart as soon as the cease-fire is approved in the United Nations, according to U.S. military officials. Combat troops then will begin returning home and supply troops will remain longer, possibly as long as 8 to 10 months, to get equipment ready to ship back.
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