European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 49, no. 285 saturday january 26, 1991 a a 25 daily and sunday d 8693 Iraq dumps Oil into Gulf act called environmental terrorism a amps Sharon Kilday from staff and wire reports the White House and military officials said Friday that Iraq is dumping millions of barrels of Oil into the persian Gulf from Kuwait in an apparent Effort to frustrate . Landing efforts. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwa Ter said it will Likely surpass the 1989 Oil spill at Valdez Alaska. President Bush pledged a every Effort by Allied forces to halt the spill. Bush told reporters that the iraqi Oil spill is Akin to Saddam Hussein a use of scud missiles and displaying of Allied prisoners of War a without value to the iraqi military Effort. Pentagon officials said that despite the huge magnitude of the spill it held no peril for any possible amphibious assault on iraqi positions in Kuwait. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said the Oil dumping a is clearly an act of environmental  he said it May be More than a dozen times bigger than the Alaska Oil spill. A Quot Allied military officials said the spill was first spotted about three Days ago but bad weather has hampered efforts to track it. Marine maj. Gen. Robert b. Johnston speaking at news briefing in Riyadh saudi Arabia said the Oil Slick already about 8 to 10 Miles Long and about 2 Miles wide started about 10 Miles off the kuwaiti coast at a major Oil pumping station Mina Alamid. It is about 20 Miles South of Kuwait City. Johnston said the pumping station can pump out 100,000 barrels a Day a so it has the potential of being a fairly significant Oil Slick but said it was premature to conjecture on its seriousness. However Fitzwater was More Blunt in his assessment. He said that Oil being emptied from kuwaiti Oil storage tanks threatens massive environmental damage. A they Are dumping huge quantities of Oil into the Gulf from Oil tank farms a Fitzwater said. A it looks to be continuous. Clearly its m the millions of  a a it a kind of sick a Bush said. It see Oil on Back Page scuds slam Tel Aviv Haifa 1 dead a firefighter in Tel Aviv Israel hoses Down burning rubble Friday after the area was hit by a scud missile. Tell Aviv Israel apr missiles fired from Western Iraq struck in the Pel Aviv and Haita areas Friday killing one israeli and wounding More than 40 others. It was the filth attack by the scud Type missiles on the jewish state in the past eight Days and the first that directly caused a death. Army officials said that seven missiles with Convent to Mil warheads were lir cd and that the .-supplied Patriot anti missile system destroyed two of them. Israel radio said that the patriots damaged most of the others. Tel has Homer Hospital in Pel Aviv reported that one Man died alter suffering a severe head wound in the attack. Hospitals reported that 42 other people were injured including one person who was in critical condition and four who were moderately wounded. Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Nachman Shai said he believed that All the injuries were in the Tel Aviv area. Radio broadcasts from the Region around Haifa report cd no casualties there. Shai said the missiles did not have chemical warheads. Several explosions were heard in Jerusalem and the radio said the noise was from patriots intercepting the iraqi missiles. Smoke billowed through one upper class Lei Aviv neighbourhood where a two family House was flattened and a two Story apartment building was partly blown away. A v. A Quot a Quot in Fiir previous iraqi missile attacks against Israel since the persian Gulf War began the rockets also carried conventional warheads. Patriots on wednesday destroyed an incoming iraqi missile in the Haifa area. In previous attacks iraqi scuds have injured 130 israelis three people died of heart attacks in one earlier see scuds on Back Page up from wire reports Dhahran saudi Arabia Allied warplanes roared into Clear skies Friday redoubling their drive to destroy iraqis military machine. The allies stepped up their relentless battering of targets across Kuwait and Iraq. Allied command officials cited evidence a iraqi soldiers Short on food and Ridden with lice a that the bombing has Cut off supplies and made conditions grim among the dug in iraqis. Army it. Gen. Thomas Kelly speaking at a defense department briefing said that Allied fliers had completed 2,707 missions Oyer the past Day a total of More than 17,500 sorties since hostilities began Jan. 17. But iraqis military punch kept the allies wary too. The British ordered their bombers to Fly higher away from deadly iraqi anti aircraft fire Baghdad a latest military communique claimed most Allied attacks on Iraq were directed at civilian targets. In no a Peter Arnett one of the last foreign correspondents in Baghdad said the iraqis took him to a Small town where almost two dozen Homes had been destroyed in what they claimed was an air attack. The iraqis said 24 civilians had been killed in the attack he reported. The Allied command said it is targeting strictly military and other strategic Sites. But officers acknowledge that unintended civilian casualties Are inevitable in the wide scale bombardment mounted in operation desert storm the 9-Day-old .-led offensive to drive Iraq from occupied Kuwait. A Britain a chief of staff air marshal David Craig said the iraqi troops a Are now being hit  but he added speaking of iraqi Leader Saddam i Hussein a this does not seem to trouble him. He seems impervious to  a. Marine maj Gen. Robert b. Johnston said the condition of captured iraqi soldiers attests to the repercussions of the non Stop bombardment. In an unsubstantiated report an anti Saddam kurdish resistance group said Allied air raids had killed or wounded almost 1x 0 iraqi troops. Official iraqi reports have spoken Only of dozens of military casualties. French Gen. Maurice Schmitt said that iraqis civil and military communications networks anti air defences and iraqi refineries had been reduced by three fourths. The allies have reported losing 19 War see War on Back Page