European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday,.february 16,1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3 Turkey War in the Gulf in Ciurlik a a Al. A it a s. A it s x s s�3njj�s?� Erht  a 41 sea Vij w a it Gulf War summary since Start of War lbs news reporter Bob Simon and three Crew members who disappeared in the Northern saudi desert last month have been held in Baghdad for two weeks and their Fate will be decided by Saddam Hussein can reported Friday. Jordan Amman Allied warplanes have. Systematically bombed several of Saddam Hussein s palaces including the enies key and Herseng palaces in the Amaliya Region and the Sare rash  Inwhan May be an Aerial Hunt for the iraqi president kurdish rebel groups said Frid amp a. Reported by allies More than 70,000 sorties flown. 33 killed in action including 14. Americans and 19 saudis. _ 25 americans Hon combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War. 47 missing inaction including 28 americans eight British one italian and10saodls> a a a 12 prisoners of War including eight. Americans two British one italian and one kuwaiti.31 Allied planes lost 24 in combat including 16 american five British one kuwaiti one italian and one saudi non combat losses seven planes including five american one British and one saudi. Six american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1,040 iraqis taken prisoner. 139 iraqi planes and four helicopters destroyed.147 planes flown to  by Iraq More than 180 Allied Craft downed More than 20 Allied prisoners held. 1,147 civilians and 90 soldiers killed 750 civilians wounded. Military officials said an a6-e on the Carrier America crashed thursday As it was coming in for a Landing but its Pilot ejected safely. An iraqi helicopter was shot Down thursday by a . F-15 with a laser guided bomb. . Military officials thursday said the allies had confirmed the destruction of roughly one third of Iraq s tanks armoured vehicles and artillery pieces and another 15 percent of its tanks would be useless in a land War because they Lack parts from bases that have been destroyed. Riyadh ii Lull a Jubal v a a Dhahran Xvi 1 a a Jcj Bahrain Qatar a amps update Susan Hart is the Headquarters of Iraq s ruling Arab baath socialist party was damaged in thursday night Allied air  communications based on soviet system by William j. Broad the new York times the command and control system of the iraqi military depends on a Large National network of communications centers and is based on soviet design experts said. An advanced command Center would be filled with radios signal amplifiers telephones computers Racks of electronic equipment maps lights Beds and All kinds of emergency survival gear. A backup site might be More lightly equipped experts said. A communications Center or a Node a said or. Paul b. Stares senior fellow at the Brookings institution in Washington and an expert on military communications is a Sloppy shorthand for anything that facilitates the process be it a command Post a communications Tower or a switching  a he added a a it a Only by understanding the network As a whole and How different nodes operate relative to each of her and their importance that you can make judgments about which ones Are significant  it . Officials said thursday that one such Node is in a false basement of the Al Rashid hotel in Baghdad. They also said that a command Center was located in the reinforced Concrete Structure destroyed by bombing wednesday in Baghdad at a Cost of Many civilian lives. Military control is highly centralized in Iraq and the soviet Union. The chief threat to such a system is a a a decapitation strike which would either kill military leaders or leave them unable to communicate. Stares said the soviets had a centralized command and control system like that of iraqi president Saddam Hussein but that they nonetheless recognized a the dangers of centralisation and have invested heavily in multiple systems to insure  most military command posts have both land lines and radios for communicating w1 111 loops Quot St i Quot is that both methods have strengths and weaknesses. A buried Cable is secure against eavesdropping a he said. A if buried deep its also pretty protected against attack. But its also Static so you can to use it to run Mobile operations such As Mobile missile launchers or Mobile artillery. Radio on the other hand whether microwave or High frequency is More flexible Irr the sense that it can be used to support Mobile operations. But it of course is vulnerable to  on wednesday Pentagon officials said that All of iraqis main command and control facilities were in downtown Baghdad. Navy cant. David Herrington Deputy director of i rite 11 Ige Nee for t he j bin t chiefs of staff said that As these have been bombed a a it a forced them away from these centralized command and control facilities into alternate ones in the suburbs like the building Hunker bombed wednesday a James t. I stood head of military science and defense analytic a consulting concern in Fairfax va., said that iraqi a a ,-.r i attacker. The soviets Are geniuses in the construction of fake command posts and the transmission of false signals lie said. A it takes a very keen mind to see through some of this deception a he said. A what the soviets teach is that you have to he consummate and comprehensive. You can to do something in one area in the spectrum and not another a a reference to the transmission of fake military messages on Many different radio frequencies. A a a a a i pc said some counterfeit soviet  were heated so they would have an infrared a a signature that could he picked up by spy satellites. The Structure bombed wednesday was said by Pentagon officials to be a hardened Structure that had clearly been converted to military use., it was covered with a thick layer of reinforced Concrete and recently had been filled with an advanced eled on soviet methods and that both were a very complicated and a very unlike How it is done in the United  a key complication he said was. The use of deception to throw off a would be t17ijiiuuiciji Ioris by in civil. 1 one official said three Black circles u.p-. Patently intended to resemble bomb holes were painted on the roof in an attempt to make the building appear already damaged. ,