European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 21, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3 War in the Gulf reports from Baghdad said the capital suffered four hours of -4otense air raids lasting into the morning hours wednesday adding that bombs were going off every five minutes. Meanwhile the allies continued heavy attacks on the Republican guard units in Kuwait. Saudi officials said the Oil Slick fouling the persian Gulf is much smaller than originally feared. It is now estimated at about 65 million Gallons rather than 460 million Allied attacks on iraqi positions Are believed to have caused up to 30 percent of it a saudi expert in Dhahran said tuesday. Reported wednesday 2,900 Allied sorties. 1 american kill in action. Over 500 iraqis taken prisoner. Since Start of War Allied sorties a _ 86,000 missions town. Reported by allies 36 killed in action including 17 americans and 19 saudis. 30 americans listed As non combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War 51 missing in action including 30 americans. 10 British one italian and 10 saudis a12 prisoners of War including eight americans two British one italian and one kuwaiti. A 40 Allied plan fees lost 30 in combat including 21 american six British one kuwaiti one italian anyone saudi. Non combat losses 10 planes including eight american one British and one saudi. Six ameri<2&n helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1,780 iraqis taken prisoner. 135 iraqi planes destroyed plus six helicopters. . Attack helicopters swooped Down on a Complex of iraqi bunkers North of the saudi Border wednesday destroying More than a dozen of the fortifications and capturing 450 to 500 iraqi prisoners. Soviet officials were a waiting for iraqis response to its peace plan but did not know when iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz would arrive in Moscow. Qatar in another clash wednesday a . Unit engaged enemy tanks artillery and infantry destroying five tanks and 20 artillery pieces. One american Ems killed and seven were wounded. Seven iraqis a were taken As prisoners. Spies poised to go behind enemy lines by the los Angeles times with . Forces in North. Ern saudi Arabia for All the . Reliance on satellites and other High tech Means to gather intelligence american lives May Well depend on the eyes and ears of military spies now poised to prowl behind enemy lines just before the invasion of occupied Kuwait begins. I the information they furtively Send Back to the advancing Allied troops also could prove vital in ensuring a Short War As Well As in minimizing Allied casualties. But gathering information on iraqi troop deployment will be Only one of the Many duties of the 1st inf dives intelligence battalion. A after penetrating enemy lines by land and perhaps by Parachute these highly trained soldiers will spread disinformation in Hopes of deceiving acid confusing. The iraqis a luring them to attack fake Allied bunkers and camouflaged plywood tanks in Northern saudi Arabia. The Little known unit said staff sgt. Victor Quinones has a a whole Arsenal of Canvas and plywood toys a capable of creating a battalion sized Camp where none exists. T the battalions other duties include interrogation of Energy prisoners jamming iraqi military radio transmissions and providing Long Range reconnaissance and radar screens for the Allied front lines. Within the intelligence battalion the Best trained troops Are the Long Range surveillance detachments. They Are to infiltrate enemy lines ahead of attacking columns arid to gather and report Back intelligence on the movement of iraqi troops. A a they Are the Best infantrymen we can find the most fit the most Able to stand deprivation a said . Bill Moore head of the intelligence unit. Quot their Mission will be to go in Between two groups of iraqi forces and give us information on where the next Force is coming from a before we fight  at the moment these elite troops Are spread along the saudis Border with Iraq and Kuwait. But they will hardly be with ment near the based on s stance a rat Rex out a supporting cast. Also deployed along the  lines Are armoured personnel carriers equipped with ground surveillance radar and staffed by Crews that also report to Moore. These carriers too Are expected to give Early Wadi jigs of any iraqi move order. Tell gence for in Nam the h2nd aviation brigade arid their uhf in Black  will be Able to Chart the most strategic routes for advancing Allied forces. A but perhaps the intelligence battalion s least known function is that of deception and Decoy a tactics for which the iraqis have received much recognition from the Al ies however begrudgingly. A a the iraqis use deception they have been trained by the soviets and they were very Good at it a Moore said. But through a variety of intelligence sources the allies have been Able to sort out such efforts he said. He added Quot our intelligence gathering is too robust to be fooled. It Only takes a Short time to figure it out. We have multiple systems looking at  the allies now Hope to turn the tables on the iraqis with the enemy sics sophisticated systems and their seriously crippled network of communications and intelligence gathering. A your main Mission is to Quot make the enemy commit themselves to a place where we Are not going to attack or to disguise a place we Are going to attack a said Quinones 24, of Junction City Kan. Still neither Quinones nor Moore rests comfortably in the belief that Superior intelligence alone will turn the tide during the heat of a ground War. A the confusion in War is incredible a Moore said. A fee tried to describe to my soldiers what the first Lav of War will be like a the sounds the obscuration the noise. That is Why we have multiple systems and intelligence analysts in the rear to put it All together.�?�. This Story was compiled from inform Ilion gathered by Pentagon Pool reporters on the scene a