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Gulf war: Nation/World
Allies dominate gulf skies
The Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf said yesterday that two weeks of bombing raids had forced Iraq to abandon centralized control of its air defense. He said the need had supremacy over Iraqi skies.
"We've flown more than 30,000 sorties and we we've lost only 19 air-conditioners commander of Operation Desert Storm told reporters.
briefing, Schwarzkopf used maps and video footage to illustrate the allies' progress in the war to liberate Kuwait.
During his
"The F-117 remains virtually invisible and highly effective," he said of the U.S. stealth warplane. "As a result, the Iraqis have abandoned
centralized control of their air defense within Iraq and Kuwait."
Schwarzkopf said that the bombing was aimed at the systematic destruction of the Iraqi air force's hardened system, which they claim of these shellers had been destroyed.
"The Iraqi air force is running out of places to hide," he said.
He said allied forces had destroyed Iraqi chemical storage and production sites, all of Iraq's nuclear reacreation half of its biological warfare plants.
One Baghdad nuclear center has been reduced to rubble, he said.
"We're going to continue a relentless attack on this very, very heinous weapons system." Schwarzkopf said.
After being asked how he felt about Iraq's use of prisoners of war as human shields, Schwarzkopf said that it was a violation of the Geneva Convention and that the Red Cross had access to allied camps for captured Iraqs.
Raising his voice, he said, "I challenge, I challenge the Iraqis right now to do the same damn thing in their POW camps."
Asked about stopping the gigantic oil spill in the Persian Gulf, he said, "The U.S. Navy is very proud of any role we may have played in doing away with this act of ecological terrorism."
He also said allied forces apparently were able to prevent an Iraqi Scud missile attack on Israel Tuesday night.
"I have a high degree of confidence we're getting better and better at our ability to find them," he said of Iraq's Scud launchers.
When he was asked if allied ground forces would pursue the Iraqis into Iraq, Schwarzkopf paused and then said, "Let's wait and see."
This story includes reports subjected to security review by allied military authorities.
Gulf oil spill clean-up begins
The Associated Press
MANANA. Bahrain — A Norwegian ship capable of sweeping up 1,400 tons of oil an hour has begun skimming crude from the world's largest oil slick, salvage executives said yesterday.
Second oil spill discovered
The Al Waasit, operated by the Oslo-based Nornol Marine Services Co., is believed to be operating north of the world's biggest desalination plant at Jubail, which processes 30 million gallons of drinking water a
Salvage experts have speculated that the slick, estimated at 50 miles long and 12 miles wide, would arrive off Jubail today.
Allied forces say the spill started when Iraq intentionally opened the valves of the offshore Sea Island Terminal in occupied Kuwait. It has reached 11 million barrels, or 460 million gallons, but U.S. forces have been pushing the oil in Kuwait apparently has reduced the flow feeding the slick to a trickle.
A separate slick recently was
detected in the gulf, emanating from an Iraqi oil terminal, and the allied military commander threatened to bomb that site too.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of allied forces, said oil had been leaking for several days from an offshore platform.
U.S. troops get cold feet on the front
The Associated Press
N IN NORTHERN SAUDI ARABIA - Paratroopers call it "The Hawk," a 'piercing chick of the bone with a tilt-like抓人
The weather at the northern front has been rainy and cold the past few days, cold enough to coat sleeping blankets with frost and freeze grape drinks into slush.
Air Force meteorologists say that the rains have been the worst in years but that they are being averted by any allied ground attack.
When soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division became the first ground troops to arrive in Saudi Arabia back in August, they were greeted with oven-like blasts of 130-degree temperatures.
"If you had told me in August it would have been this cold, I'd have bet you all the money I owned you were wrong," said Stg. 1st Class Abbey Butts, 31, of Elizabeth, N.J., part of the 1st Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment.
Butts' advice to beat the chill 'Put on everything you got. Hunker down in the holes. Sleep underground. Love like moles. This is the first time you get to tell anybody to dig.'
Soldiers at the front bundle up like mummies, wearing layers of longjohns, sweaters and hooded parkas.
Saturday, a frigid pelting rain came from the north, making it forbidden for anyone who was out in the open. If your sleeping bag got wet it was like sleeping in a bucket of ice water until a sympathetic officer could find you comfort.
- This story includes reports subjected to security review by allied military authorities.
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