European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a a Page 3war in the Gulf Gulf War summary since Start of War Allied sorties Over 35,100 missions flown. Losses reported by allies 12 americans killed in action. 10 americans non combat deaths. 105 americans non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War. 33 missing in action 23 americans eight British one italian and one Kun i. A a a a a a a 27 Allied planes lost 22 in combat -15 american five British one kuwaiti and one italian. Noncombat losses five planes three american one British and Quot Orre saudi. More than_300 iraqis killed. More than 630 iraqis taken prisoner. 59 iraqi planes destroyed. Allied commanders Friday said there was considerable movement among iraqi ground units but they did not appear to be massing for a major push into saudi Arabia. However Coal i to o n warplanes we re using the Opportunity to Pound the armoured vehicles and i troops in Southern Iraq and Kuwait. A a. Rata i a rum Aylah Vraz Zubayr reports said explosions could be heard saturday near the strategic City of Basra the site of Iraq s military Headquarters for the kuwaiti theater scale of Miles i 30 key iraqi tanks h iraqi troops v a Quot Oil Slicks k Allied troops Allied planes tank forces a Allied bombings amps Wes Booher / a iraqi tanks fired on a . Observation Post in saudi Arabia on Friday and . Artillery returned the fire forcing five enemy tanks to flee. Shafar Al Batin saudi Arabia British officials _ Friday said Tornado up a Tomado warplanes had destroyed an iraqi scud launcher and a Cache of missiles. Two . Warplanes an a-10 Thunderbolt and an a-6 intruder were shot Down saturday. No other detail were released. Thund Arbou Allied ground units were on the move. Some were shifting in response to iraqi troop movements and action. Saudi army units saturday reinforced the Frontier town of Khanji to head off another iraqi raid  scores monster Hiton scud site Eastern saudi Arabia up British warplanes have destroyed a Cache of iraqi scud missiles a British military official said Friday. A it was a monster hit on a monster target a Royal air Force group capt Niall Irving told a briefing. He said British Tornado jets on thursday bombed the site which contained an iraqi scud a launcher and a number of scuds actually in storage there.�?�. A it was a very successful attack in which at least one of the scuds leapt about 100 feet into the air with flames by  end a he said. A that was one of two particularly successful attacks on scuds in the last 24 hours and we think it must have reduced Saddam Hussein a capacity quite a  Iraq has fired 27 of the Long Range weapons at Israel and another 27 at saudi Arabia since the .-led coalition attacked Iraq on Jan. 17. A the missiles Are particularly frightening because Iraq has threatened to fit them with Poison Gas warheads. So a however none of the scuds has carried chemical weapons. Almost All of the scuds aimed at saudi Arabia have been downed by . Patriot missiles or landed harm Lessly in unpopulated areas . Military officials say. As of late Friday the kingdom had been free of scud attacks for More than 48 hours. Iraq launched its eighth Aerial attack against Israel on thursday lobbing a High explosive scud missile into the israeli occupied West Bank for the second time in four Days. It caused no injuries or damage. A missile monday night landed in an Arab Village in the West Bank blasting a 15-foot Hole in the Middle of a wheat Field but causing no injuries. R six previous attacks caused significantly More damage mostly in the Central coastal Region surrounding Tel Aviv. Atwo people died directly because of the scud missiles explosions and at least 12 others died from heart attacks and suffocation because of improper use of their Gas masks. The army a chief medical officer Yehudah Danon said that at least 273 people have been injured by the multiple attacks and that the scud missiles have damaged at least 3,300 Homes. Quot ,. Quot Allied  made iraqis scud missile launchers a High priority target of their air Campaign against Iraq. Irving also said that a British Tornado Jet thursday night took out an iraqi radar site a leaving nothing for the remainder of the formation to aim  a screws also report that on one Tornado Mission the spectacular Blaze from a successful attack on a fuel store could still be seen 80 Miles away a the officer said. The Tornado has been used for Low Altitude attacks during the War. They deploy special bombs that release min lets and Are particularly effective against airfields. However As a result of Low Altitude flying a High proportion of the planes have been lost during the War. Irving also said that with improved weather conditions a your Crews Are very heartened to see the results achieved by their accurate attacks a military officials have said that Cloud cover earlier in the air Campaign had limited bomb damage assessment. But Irving said the Raf is a being extremely selective about the targets we re going  he added a what we re preparing for is the liberation of Kuwait and. The restitution of the government of Kuwait. We re no prepared to take out every single target. The scud site was one we thought presented a potential problem and seemed to be totally