Gulf war
University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 18, 1991
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Israelis take cover during attack
By Eric Nelson
After restlessly waiting for a suspected retaliation by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Lorna Kahn and Israeli civilians were forced to react.
Kahn family tells tale of past 24 hours
The sirens signaling the attack began to sound at 2 a.m. Israel time. Lorna Kahn and her family, civilian residents of Herzliyya, Israel, since 1983, became situated in their sealed room, the bathroom, with gas masks on as protection against possible chemical warfare used by Iran.
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"I've been up again since two, when I heard the sirens go off." Kahn said in a telephone interview last night from Israel.
After spending the last two evenings watching details unfold, she was exhausted.
Her daughter, Gilah, who was in
Jerusalem during the attack, had trouble with her son David, 3. Initially, the child was frightened by his parents while they wore the gas masks. He also found the mask an inconvenience when he wanted to suck his thumb. Instead of using gas masks, David and his 3-week-old brother were placed in a protective tent.
Kahn and her husband, Asher,
finally were able to seal the sealed
room at 5:50 a.m. Israeli time.
After leaving the room, Kahn watched the television for late-breaking information and possible retaliations.
"They have light entertainment between newscasts," she said of the
television broadcasts. "It's relatively pleasant entertainment if you feel like watching it."
Kahn said that some friends from Montreal, Canada, had arrived in Israel yesterday before the attack. They were visiting their children and grandchildren. Kahn said she was concerned that their friends would be without gas masks during a possible attack.
She later found out that they were in a sealed room during the attack but without gas masks.
Kahn attempted to call relatives in Israel, but the phone lines were jammed.
"People in the states are calling people here frantically," she said.
Kahn said that she had heard a report that the U.S. government had requested that Israel not retaliate. Supposedly, the United States had feared possible confusion with both a U.S. and Israeli retaliation.
"You are dealing with an Arab mentality, not a Western mentality," Kahn said. "By not retaliating, it is a sign of weakness to Iraq."
Like yesterday, no one was expected to report to work except for public service workers. Her husband, an employee for the Ministry of Defense, had to work for the second day of the Persian Gulf war.
Kahn said that after two days of the war and little sleep that she was three.
"I am going straight to bed," she said.
Kahn doubts the war in the gulf will be over soon.
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Length: 37 ft. Weight: 14,000 lbs.
Diameter: 34 in. Range: Up to 400 miles
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Mustard gas and other blistering agents: Cause vomiting, nausea, skin irritation and blistering, eye blindness. Can be lethal in large amounts.
Other delivery methods
Chemical weapons can be carried by virtually any means used for conventional explosives. In the event of a nuclear attack,
Hillel students offer support after bombing
Kansan staff writer
Bv Lara Gold
Members of KU's Jewish student organization expressed their support of Israel after it was bombed by Iraq last night.
"KU" Hillel is greatly concerned about the tragic escalation of the war wrought by the attack on Israel by Kevin Eberman, Hillel president.
"We are deeply saddened by the material destruction and loss of life in the region. May American soldiers be safe." The region be peacefully solved quickly."
One KU student who returned recently from Israel said that he was surprised an attack had been made and that he was worried about friends and relatives whom he had left behind.
SOURCES: Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, World Military Power.
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Steven Glass, Northbrook, Ill.
junior, returned from Israel on Jan.
10 after studying there last semester.
"Only eight days ago I was sitting in Tel Aiv eating a feafel," he said. "In my mind, I did not think this could happen."
But he has not given up his belief in the strength of the Israeli army.
Glass said his relatives were in Tel Aviv and his former Israeli roomate was in Haifa. Both cities were bombed in the attack.
"I know Israel will be there tomorrow," he said. "I know it will be there forever."
Military spending could top $100 billion
The Associated Press
The Pentagon said the United States launched 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Wednesday night's initial attack on Iraqi targets.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military could be hurling $500 million worth of missiles, shells and other ammunition at Iraqi forces each day, including $1.3 million for each cruise missile fired, defense specialists say.
The first U.S. aircraft reported shot down, a Navy F-A-18 fighter-attack jet, costing $31 million by itself
William Kaufmann, an analyst at the Brookings Institution here, said yesterday that the half-billion-dollar price tag for an average day's munitions was primarily due to the sophistication of the U.S. military arsenal.
Phoenix missiles, air-to-air weapons that can be fired long before an enemy can fire.
to $800,000 each HARM missiles,
to radar systems,
coat about $720,000 a year.
Most of the shells that U.T. tanks fire cost about $2,000 apiece. The most expensive artillery shells, high-explosive projectiles called Copperheads, cost about $36,000 each, one analyst said.
Kraultman estimated the value of U.S. weapons in the gulf at about $102 billion. Analysts believe the United States has at least 300 of the ship- and plane-fired Tomahawks in the Persian Gulf region.
One hundred billion dollars slightly exceeds the combined 1985 gross national products of Iraq, Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Budget Office estimated the costs of driving Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait between $28 billion and $66 billion, depending on the length and intensity of the conflict.
Overall, the price tag for fuel,
maintenance, personnel and equipment replacement costs is expected to be somewhat less.
The military's costliest equipment, of course, is its ships. The most expensive vessels, aircraft carriers, are used in the region. There are six of them in the region.
On Wednesday, the Congressional
All told, the Navy is believed to have about 100 ships in the region, including about 8 combat ships and 20 supply and command vessels.
Their costs vary, but they include $1 billion Aegis cruisers that carry the most modern radar and weapons systems.
There also are about 1,700 helicopers stationed in the area, which cost between $6 million and $12 million each.
million and $70 million.
Estimates of the number of American aircraft in the combat area range between 1,200 and 1,300. Their individual values range between $10
Estimates on the number of tanks range between 1,200 and 1,750. The tanks generally cost between $2 million and $4.4 million apiece.
The military also has about 2,700 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles and 3,000 artillery pieces. M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles — lightly armed personnel carriers — cost about $1.2 million each.
"My guess is if you threw out a $100 billion, you'd be close to that," said Alexis Dain, research director for the Defense Budget Project, a private group that analyzes defense spending issues.
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