European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The St amp Riande Ripesi a t3�$ssfcr authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 281 tuesday january 22, 1991 1 a is. Daily end sunday d 8693 iraqi decoys shield scuds big time air search continues Washington apr Iraq is using decoys to thwart Allied efforts to wipe out scud missile launchers Pentagon officials reported monday while congressional sources said the Campaign is being hampered by persistent hostile fire As Well a a they do use decoys and they use them Well a it. Gen. War in the Gulf  see pages 2 through 9 Thomas Kelly told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. He said Allied War planes Are working a a big time to take out the remaining launch. Sites which Iraq has used to fire rockets into Israel and saudi Arabia. A we have a very Good idea of where the missiles Are launched from. We react to that just As quickly As we can a Kelly said. A a. Quot a. ,. A he disclosed that Iraq had fired one additional scud missile toward saudi Arabia a Short while earlier but said it landed harmlessly in the persian Gulf near Gabayl. Nine of 10 scud missiles reported fired into saudi Arabia sunday night and Early monday were shot Down by american made Patriot missiles. Navy rear adm. John Mcconnell said that despite the massive air bombardment iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the military command is a still in control of military activity in the  in a dispatch from Ahwaz Iran the islamic Republic news Agency said iranians witnessed the bombing of the port City of Basra in Southern Iraq three times sum Day. According to an evacuee to Jordan the planes were attacking members of see scuds on Back Page m if ?. A it i  desert storm . Marine armoured vehicles kick up a saudi desert sunday. Forces in opera the kuwaiti Border to prepare for a pos storm of Sand As they move Over the Tion desert storm Are heading toward sible ground confrontation with iraqis.  condemn Iraq s treatment of pos Zaun Hunter by the associated press the United states Britain and Italy denounced iraqis treatment of captured Allied airmen with defense Secretary Dick Cheney comparing it to a War crime. A Iraq said monday it has captured More than 20 Allied airmen and would scatter them among a a civilian economic education and other  Baghdad radio did not specify whether they would be sent to military Sites As were foreigners held As a human Shields for several months following iraqis invasion of Kuwait. American viewers on monday saw for the first time the images of some of the seven captured Allied airmen who were interviewed sunday on iraqi to. Several of the airmen denounced the War but their shaky voices frequent pauses and stilted phrases indicated the statements were made under duress. President Bush also denounced iraqis handling of the pos saying that if Saddam Hussein a thought this brutal treatment of pilots was a Way to Muster world support he is dead wrong.�?�. The president said the iraqi actions would not affect the Allied attacks on Iraq. Cheney said that iraqis treatment of prisoners of War was a a Clear violation of the Geneva convention. A a it a in effect a War crime and those people who carry. Out those kind of acts would be held accountable a Cheney told Cable news network. Britain a chief of staff air chief marshal sir David Craig said the iraqi tactic of moving the prisoners to. Strategic Sites would not deflect the Allied air assault. Italy also denounced the iraqi move. British foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd dismissed As nonsense a statement by the iraqi ambassador in Paris Abdul Razzak Al Hashimi that Only prisoners a knowl see pos on Back Page