War in the Gulf
University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 22. 1991
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Washington CIA and Pentagon's damage figures differ
The CIA estimates that 10 to 15 percent of Iraq's tanks and artillery in Kuwait have been destroyed by allied bombing, while the sources said yesterday, for example, that Pentagon's 35 percent figure.
The discrepancy is the result of different tools and philosophies used in assessing the damage, said officials who describe the CIA figures as a worst-case scenario.
The extent of the damage will help determine how many casualties U.S. troops sustain from a ground offensive on Kuwait
U. S. officials in Saudi Arabia said yesterday that about 300,000 of Saddam Hussein's 540,000 troops in the Kuwait theater still appeared to be in fighting form.
1st Infantry, Saudi Arabia Commander removed after 2 soldiers killed
The commander of a battalion of Apache helicopters has been relieved of his post after he mistakenly fired on two vehicles, both killed two U.S. soldiers, it was reported yesterday.
Officers in the 1st Infantry Division said army Lt. Col. Ralph Hayles, of Corpus Christi, Texas, had violated division guidelines that command officers were not to personally engage enemy forces.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Non-combat accident kills 7 U.S. soldiers
Seven U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday when an Army medical evacuation helicopter crashed in Arabia, U.S. officials reported.
Initial reports said the UH-60 Blackhawk was attempting to land in bad weather.
These stories from The Association Press include reports subjected to review by allied military censors.
Saddam says Iraq will not turn back
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A defiant Saddam Hussein said yesterday that his forces were ready for the ground invasion. Mr. Hussein's foreign minister's trim to Moscow
"There is no path except the path that we have chosen," the Iraqi president said in a radio address to his nation.
As Saddam spoke, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarqi Aziz traveled to Moscow with a response to a Soviet peace plan. The Soviet proposal appeared to be the only chance of avoiding an allied invasion of Kuwait.
"We will join on this path which Tarjig Aziz has carried to Moscow," Saddam said. "Any other US ambassador in Arabis into indomity and darkness."
About an hour before the speech
was broadcast, Iraq fired more Scud missiles at Saudi Arabia. Shortly after the speech, the Iraqi military announced that units along the Saudi border had crushed a land attack by the U.S.-led allies.
"The aggressors suffered massive losses in personnel and equipment." an Iraqi military representative said when some of them were killed or wounded.
U. S. military officials in Riyadh confirmed that the U.S. forces were staged armed forays into Iraq and Kuwait in advance of a full-scale land offensive.
Allied officials also said two or three Scuds were fired into north-central Saudi Arabia late yesterday after the blasts destroyed and destroyed by Patriot missiles.
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Several species of birds unique to the Persian gulf are at risk of extinction because of the oil spilled Jan. 24 from Sea Island Terminal in Kuwait.
The birds feed at mudflats on the shore by poking their bills into the mud to find worms, he said. After an hour they had leaved leaves an oily residue over the shore.
Only 13 species of birds have a breeding population in the gulf, said Richard Johnston, curator of the Museum of Natural History. They nest on many of the 100 islands in the gulf.
The risk to the wintering shorebirds is high, with several thousand birds in danger because the coastal wetlands are feeding ground for the birds, he said.
However, 150 other species migrate to the area every year and are at risk of exposure to the oil, he said.
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Thorvald Holmes, collection manager at the museum, said few mammals were endangered by the snail.
Holmes said the mammals that would be affected were those that ate oil-coated vegetation.
He said that mammals such as dolphins and sea cows were able to avoid the spill and that there were few mammals in the region.
"The entire food chain is likely to be affected," he said.
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