University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 12, 1991
Gulf war: Middle East effects
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Arab world adjusts to war as ground thrust looms Saudi Arabia fears increased Scud attacks Fuel,food prices skyrocket as scarcity grows in Kuwait
The Associated Press
RYADH, Saudi Arabia — Most Saudis expected the war to be over now. Instead, it has altered their views on what worries about security and the future.
"The word war wasn't really part of our vocabulary," said Abdul Rahman al-Zamil, deputy minister of commerce.
The 30 Seud missiles fired into Saudi Arabia by Iraq brought the conflict home, especially because Riyadh was overruned. Riyadh would never be loved.
Officially, the Scud casualty toll is
one dead and about 100 injured. Both Saudi and Western officials say that at least five people have been killed but that the figures were left unchanged to avoid causing panic.
saudi say the news of the deaths of 18 soldiers in the battle of Khaju) has not jarred the public. Muslims do not play the role in battle go directly to paradise
"People are more frightened of the uncertainty of the Scud than anything else," said Abdulah Dabbagh, secretary-general of the council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce. "These Scuds made it a much more
personal war. People thought, 'This Scud could hit me, could kill me.'
Opinion is divided about whether Saudis would tolerate watching follow Arabs in Iraq suffer through a months-long war.
Both Saudi and Western officials say months of fighting would revive suspicions that the United States is bent on destroying a Muslim nation and grabbing its oil wealth.
Saudi and Western diplomats say a tiny minority in Saudi Arabia supports Saddam Hussein: Conservative Muslims who believe inviting foreign troops in might have been a sin and who are diehard supporters of Arab nationalism.
Those sentiments are not expressed in public. For example, public skirmishes between fundamentalists and liberals concerning how much the country's strict Islamic social and political traditions should change have been shelved in a time of crisis.
Baghdad suffers supply shortages, utility failures
The Associated Press
BAGHADD, Iraq — Relentless allied bombing raids have pushed the city of the Thousand and One Nights into the past. Horse-drawn carts repelling enemy artillery is drawn from Tigris River and twigs are gathered for fuel.
The once-bustling capital, with a peacetime population close to 4 million, is without electricity its disks. The city's public water system people head home before dusk, going
to bed early because candles are costly.
After more than three weeks of allied air raids, residents suffer from shortages of food, drinking water, medicine and fuel. But they are learning to cope with the deprivations and the almost nightly raids.
tion.
Many Iraqis say they are in faw of ending the war, but not at the co of Iraq's pride. Many Iraqis would also would them vulnerable to Western domin
"We may die, but we will die with honor," said Sarmad Mohammed, an officer with the state security department. He met Sunday with his wife to buy food.
"We are suffering a lot," he said. "Our kids do not have milk. Our parents do not have medicine. We drink water and get anything from toothpaste to eggs."
escape destruction, some threaten revenge on President Bush for their misery.
Although many Iraqis seem confident that their country will somehow
"Someone someday will kill Bush, just wait," said Mohammed Jassim, an 18-year-old student who took a day off from compulsory military service to shop at the market for some candles for his parents.
Elsewhere, children could be seen waving toy rifles in mock attacks on "Satan America."
The Associated Press
RUWEISHED, Jordan — In occupied Kuwait, small fortunes are being exchanged for scarce food and fuel, and the thunder of bombing echoes night and day, refuges said yesterday.
They described a shattered country that is nearly impossible to leave because roads have been bombed and gasoline — when it is available — can cost up to $120 a gallon.
"It's getting worse. No gasoline, no food. You can't get rice, flour and sugar," said Khaled Abdul Khalil, who was said he said he kept on Friday.
"For a few days, I had to go without food at all." he said.
Abdul Rahman was disheveled and weary after a journey of more than 750 miles. To make the trip, he said, his group had to steal some gasoline and buy some more on the black market.
The refugees said they often had to detour off the road because of destroyed bridges or smashed pavement.
Hassan Mahmoud, who left Kuwait on Saturday, described conditions as miserable. He, too, said that the increase in increasingly difficult to find
Scarcity has sent prices in Kuwait soaring.
A 21-year-old man named Jafar said a box of 30 eggs sold for 40 dinars, the equivalent of $120 at the market rate, and $8 at the black market rate.
For many, the official price is the real one because they kept years of savings in Kuwaith dinars, which were absorbed into Iraqi currency at the official rate when Iraq seized the emirate.
"I paid 1,000 dinars for 100 liters of gasoline to flee the country." Jafar said. That works out to $200 per gallon. The gallon at the black market rate.
Despite the shortages, none of the refugees said they had heard of Iraqi soldiers scavenging food from civilians, a report recently circulated by Kuwait's in-exile government said.
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