European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 49, no. 287 monday january 28, 1991 25 daily and sunday d 8693 . Planes bomb pipes to slow Oil flow into Gulf from staff and wire reports Riyadh saudi Arabia a the United states blew up iraqi controlled Oil facilities in Kuwait in an attempt to Stop Iraq from pumping millions of Gallons of Oil into the persian Gulf the commander of operation desert storm said sunday. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf told reporters the facilities were bombed late saturday by full warplanes. He said the planes targeted a Complex of pipes linking the Oil Fields with a Tanker loading buoy. Schwarzkopf identified the targets of saturday nights attack As two Oil pipe manifolds. He showed videotapes of a a smart bombs that zeroed in on the manifolds. A videotape he said was taken after the bombing India Germany offers Aid to Israel Bonn Germany apr Germany offered sunday to help defend Israel if the jewish state is attacked by iraqi warplanes. One German official demanded immediate a Concrete Steps to help protect the jewish state. Israel has come under almost nightly bombardment from iraqi scud rockets. In a radio interview with Hess Ischer Rund Funk foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gertscher said Germany would consider helping protect Israel from iraqi warplanes or rockets. A if we hear from Israel expectations that we can contribute to repelling this deadly threat from rockets or warplanes by supplying Materiel we will seriously consider that a Genscher said. A was soon As such expectations Are concretely expressed the Federal government will certainly Issue a Speed decision a said Genscher. A then it will be dear that Israel can rely on Germany in the hour of deadly  a Many israelis Are incensed by Germany a lukewarm support for the  Effort in the persian Gulf and by allegations that German companies helped build Saddam Hussein a chemical weapons Arsenal. Israel is Home to Many survivors of the see Aid on Back Page rated much less Oil was flowing from the loading buoy. A this is now the Oil Slick coming out and you can see it is vastly reduced from the very very thick murky Slick that was coming out a Schwarzkopf said of the videotape. The general said the air assault on the kuwaiti Oil facilities took place at 10 30 . He said . Fliers encountered no iraqi resistance. The attack set off fires that the general predicted would Burn for a More than 24 hours a Schwarzkopf who illustrated the briefing with footage of the attack taken from one of the f-11 is said experts advised him to set the source of the Slick on fire to Burn off some of the pollutants and to Cut off the flow of Oil by bombing the manifolds located about five Miles Inland. He said the fire was started by Accident Friday when the . Navy engaged a Small iraqi mine laying boat next to the terminal. A was a result the sea Island terminal caught fire a Schwarzkopf said a although that a not exactly the Way we intended to do   military officials said earlier that the iraqis turned on pumps at the kuwaiti offshore Oil loading facility last week and fed the spill with five Idle tankers holding 3 million barrels of crude a about 125 million Gallons. Meanwhile a team of six government experts on Oil a see Oil on Back Page v 4� f a a v a to 4 d d d 4 d 4 4 m 4 i --,1k a 44 do / a a w 4m a. A Jyh. F. �?T�4% Job. A if re a. A a v / 7j 4, <<4# or scud busters do it again a the fiery tails of . Patriot missiles Light up the sky of to excepted the inbound missile and disabled it saturday night. A Riyadh As they Chase Down an iraqi scud. One Patriot in piece of the missile fell on the saudi arabian capital. One by the stars and stripes near the iraqi Border a the 3rd army div spent the weekend conducting the largest desert training exercise in its history to prepare for a showdown with iraqi tanks. R. In one Man Euver about 50 m1a1 tanks from the Germany based division raced across the Flat hard desert of Northern saudi Arabia performing an Armor charge designed to overwhelm Iraq s soviet built tanks. A a we be been used to fighting a lot of Small Battles a said Mai. Scott Henne of the divisions 4th in 34th Armor. A now we re going to fight one big Battle with All our firepower Strung across the  the tanks which can. Travel at speeds of up to 40 Mph arc designed to shoot on the run. Their 120mm rounds move at up to a mile per second. A god created the my for this desert a said it. Col. Mike Burton who commands Henness battalion. A with this exercise we Are welding together All of out firepower so that my company commanders become pure  . Commanders believe the m1a1 tank will Best the t-54 and t-55 tanks entrenched just inside the iraqi Border because those models cannot shoot and move at the same time. The enemy tanks also have a limited Range of 1,200 meters while the m1a1 is accurate from 2,000 meters division officials said. Deep inside iraqi territory the division expects to confront modified t-72 tanks equipped with 125mm guns that fire Armor piercing shells. Those tanks which have automatic loaders fire at a slower rate than does the my Al officials said. The air forces a-10 warthog aircraft also will fire Maverick missiles to help destroy the iraqi continued on Back Page