European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 2, 1991 the stars and stripes pfc a Turkey War in the Gulf Page 3 Istanbul riot police using nightsticks broke up an anti War demonstration by hundreds of people leaving Friday prayers. Tomahawk missiles fired from Navy warships struck Baghdad Friday the abandoned . Embassy. Jordan7 a Indian refugee Friday said iraqi bodies were seen for the first time As they were being driven to the shiite Muslim holy City of Karbala for burial. Gulf War summary reported Friday 2,500 missions flown. More than 30 iraqis killed. More than 500 iraqis taken prisoner. I . Aircraft lost. Since Start of War Allied sorties. Over 35r100 missions flown losses reported by allies ii americans killed in action 10 americans listed As non combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before the War. 33 missing in action including 23 americans eight British one italian and one kuwaiti 25 Allied planes lost 20 in combat including 13 american five British one kuwaiti and one italian. Non combat losses five planes including three american one British and one saudi three american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 300 iraqis killed. More than 630 iraqis taken prisoner. 59 iraqi planes destroyed. A a saudi Arabia Allied forces engaged iraqi troops crossing into Sis Midi Arabia North and West of Khanji in tank and artillery duels. Units of the 1st Marine div called in air and artillery strikes to attack armoured units that crossed into saudi Arabia near the kuwaiti Border town of umm Hjul thursday night. Allied air forces pounded an iraqi column stretching for Miles Back from the kuwaiti Border. Iraqis retreating after being driven out of Khanji thursday continued battling marines in the desert Between the town and the Border. The Mammoth Oil Slick in the persian Gulf As Well As a smaller one near the iraqi coastline was breaking into pieces breakup of Oil Slick hampers Salvage Manama Bahrain apr the Mammoth Oil Slick in the persian Gulf is breaking into pieces overwhelming efforts to contain it and keep it from reaching vital desalination plants Oil and shipping executives said Fri a Day. A a Quot v a a to is becoming too dangerous demanding massive Effort and equipment to track arid combat so Many More pieces a said one of the executives who spoke on condition of anonymity. A a it a a terrible the spill is blamed on Saddam Hussein. Western Salvage executives said the War has Stover shadowed the spill that the saudi and other governments appear to be a no Rush to obtain the necessary Oil booms and other equipment. A environmentalists Are up in arms but that s about All Quot one said. ,. A. A shortage of the equipment could prompt the clo sure of some vital desalination plants which turn sea water into potable water. The plants provide two thirds of the drinking water for arabian Peninsulas 18 million people. The Lack of booms and set meets has also postpone efforts to save the environment from the Black Swath of crude a the largest Ever at. An estimated 460 million Gallons. A right now there a not enough equipment to protect what our priorities Are a said it. Cmdr. Paul Milligan of the coast guard part of a . Team helping with the cleanup. The United states Norway Germany Britian and Japan Art sending equipment but experts said it would not be enough. Salvage experts said the breakup of the Slick would complicate the cleanup because the Oil would now spread Over a wider area. A we will need double or triple the equipment and expertise to clean it up a one expert said. A we will be out chasing Ofie piece after by the sjorning the Slick was moving South along the coast opposite rats Azzar a Small Peninsula South of the Kuwait saudi Border Oil executives said the goo had touched Shore in a few places and fouled fishing grounds. A. About 17 Miles separated the tip of the Slick from saudi arabians largest desalination Plant at Suhail which processes 30 million Gallons of water a Day for Riyadh the capital and Eastern saudi Arabia. . Military officials meanwhile said they feared a second spill was the coast of Iraq. The second spill now covers an area 4v by i1/ Miles in the Vicinity of the Mina Al Bakr offshore platform off Iraq said . Air Force major Linda Leong at the military command in the saudi capital of riyadh.1 a she said that it too was breaking up., the first spill occurred last week when iraqi occupation forces in Kuwait allegedly opened the taps at the sea Island terminal off Kuwait. On saturday . Al i is dropped a a smart bombs on valves at the terminal apparently succeeding in stemming the flow into the Gulf. Since a 1983 spill dumped about 168 million Gallons of Oil into the Gulf saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have erected an extensive defense line of Oil booms around their coastal industries. Hut Salvage experts say much of that not Well maintained and is not Cope with the current situation. A understandably this is the first Lime in history that a Slick of such size has been created a said a saudi based foreign Oil executive. A and nobody seems to have calculated the risk of Saddam actually hooding the Gulf with Oil As he had threatened to do. As far As oils concerned we be wrongly discounted he also complained that because the Slick was still in the War zone information on its dimensions was not providing a Clear picture of the potential danger the saudis remain confident about the Overall situation and have been issuing state merits of reassurance. A we know our Job and we Are doing it. We will do the Best a said a saudi official of the meteorological and environmental Agency. T
