European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a a Page 3 key air bases 1ta conventional weapons plants chemical nuclear id biological warfare facilities Allied naval forces scud attack a major water desalination Plant. V Oil Slick a. Turkey in Ciurlik a in the Gulf Tat Van bombs exploded in Ankara sunday at two offices representing foreign airlines a Day after explosions in Adana damaged a car outside the . Consulate and blew off the door of a turkish american organization. Scale of Miles 200 a a was Kirkuk Samarra Baghdad a Llo Karbala Hilla an Najaf Iraq Egypt the islamic Republic news Agency reported sunday that iraqi anti aircraft guns remained silent when Allied bombers carried out overnight raids on the port City of Basra. Iran rata i Kuwait j Kuwait City Patriot missiles successfully intercepted three scuds aimed at Tel Aviv and one at Haifa during saturday night attack. Swan Nile River along the Northern front lines of the War marines using 155mm howitzers exchanged fire with iraqi forces firing Short Range missiles that fell harmlessly in the desert. Al Ahmadi Khz Jubal $31 my Dhahran or Riyadh Bahrain Qatar. Vat a Sis a scud missile aimed at Riyadh on saturday night was intercepted by a Patriot missile. No attacks were reported at Dhahran. Military officials said f-111 fighter bombers saturday had attacked facilities to Stop the flow of Oil into the Gulf. Meanwhile Oil booms were being floated into position at Jubal to protect a Large desalination Plant from the giant Oil Slick Saddam s Slick an by Vince Crawley and Joseph Owen Middle East Bureau saudi Arabia a the 1,000-Square-mile Oil Slick spreading South from Kuwait City poses no immediate threat to vital water desalination plants or to Oil production saudi government and Oil officials said sunday. But the growing Slick is an ecological disaster that could affect the persian Gulf for decades they said. By sunday the Oil totalled 6 to 8-million barrels or 252 to 338-million Gal ions of crude said Ibrahim Muhanna an adviser to the saudi Oil minister. A it is the biggest Ever in the history of the world and the Only known deliberate Oil spill a he said. A you can Call it Saddam a Slick.�?�. The previous record was 4.2 million barrels in the 1979 Intoc Oil Well Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. By midday sunday the Oil spill was 10 to 15 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska said Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman a consultant for the saudi Petroleum and Mineral resource ministry. He blamed Saddam Hussein for the ecological Nightmare and called the iraqi ruler the a lord of  . Military officials in Riyadh said sunday night that full fighter bombers had attacked the source of the Oil slowing the flow. They said however that Oil would continue to leak into the Gulf for about 24 hours As the 14-mile pipeline Between the on Shore valves and the offshore discharge gradually drains. A . Navy aviator from the aircraft Carrier Roosevelt flew Over the site sunday morning and estimated that the Slick measured 50 Miles by 20 Miles. The. Aviator who asked not to be named said the Oil formed a Golden Slick from Kuwait City South past the saudi arabian Border according to a Pentagon Media Pool report. In Dhahran saudia Arabia a saudi government official said that Birds and other wildlife in the Region will be damaged severely. Abdul Bah gain president of the saudi meteorology and environmental Protection Agency said fish stocks will suffer for decades. Saudi officials said that booms and other barriers Are being placed around desalination plants at Jubal and other areas which provide drinking water for much of the  stocks of protective booms were built up during the Iran Iraq War. A the critical facilities that use sea water. Have already been Well protected and will therefore not be affected a said Abdulaziz m. Okail a senior Vic president with the arabian american Oil co., known As saudi Aramco. He said he is a quite confident that we will be Able to emerge from this Inci. Dent without any effects on our Oil production or exporting  spill is really two spells officials said. The larger spill measuring 30 Miles by 8 Miles was still offshore sunday said Okail. Television scenes of Oil washing ashore and killing wildlife were filmed at the site of a smaller spill lying along the coast near the saudi City of Khanji he said. A the main Oil spill is Drifting Southeast at a rate of about 10 Miles a Day following prevailing winds and currents said Okail. At its southernmost Point the main Slick was two to three Miles offshore of the City of Khanji near the kuwaiti Border. It is breaking into separate batches. He said the smaller spill May be from damaged Oil tanks in Khanji a separate spill somewhere in Southern Kuwait or May be part of the larger spill that has broken off and drifted further South. Rear Admiral Dave Frost who commands the Battleground entered around the nuclear powered Roosevelt said his staff can to determine whether the Slick might impede military operations. A it seems like an act of desperation to me a Frost said. A i suppose he might have thought it would interfere with our Abil it to move close to his coast and to oper against his Republican guards in Kuwait it with gunfire support and an amphibious Landing. A we done to know yet whether it will be an interference a he said. A we do not have a lot of experience operating ships in oily  most naval vessels distil drinking and washing water by drawing sea water he noted. Also Many ship engines Are cooled by sea water. A right now the ships Are in no danger because the Oil is a Long Way from the ships a Frost said