European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 23, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3 _ key War in the Gulf Allied naval a forces major water. Desalination Plant Turkey in Ciurlik a Syria president Bush said Friday that Saddam Hussein has until noon saturday est to Quot begin his immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait. We must hear publicly and  meanwhile a soviet spokesman described a new six Point set of provisions agreed to by i Raqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz for his country a withdrawal from Kuwait. A i Kirkuk Baghdad Ltd air raid sirens wailed and anti aircraft fire crackled As bomb blasts echoed across Baghdad into the Early Quot morning hours Friday. Baghdad radio railed at the allies and their Quot bestial crimes Quot but it also spoke of Iraq s Quot honest desire to establish Security and stability in the  Gulf War summary since Start of War Allied sorties 88,000 missions flown. Reported by allies 38 killed in action including 19 americans and 19 audis 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 ital Lafland �10 saudis 13 prisoners of War including nine americans two British one italian and one kuwaiti n 42 Allied planes lost 33jn Cost my of including 24 american six kuwaiti one italian and one saudi non combat losses nine planes including seven american one British and one saudi. Six american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1.780 iraqis taken or Pher 135 iraqi planes destroyed plus six helicopters. . Intelligence reports that Well Over 140 kuwaiti Oil Wells have been set afire in the last 24 hours. Iraqis were continuing to destroy other Wells and that about 25 percent of the Oil Fields were covered by thick smoke. Kuwait i Khanji Ai mishap Safani Yai .1 \ saudi Arabia Jubal a Hatra Between 110 million and 120 million pounds of explosives have been dropped on targets in Iraq and Kuwait during the past five weeks an amount that May equal approximately 150,000 individual bomb. Bahrain a amps update Wes Doo Ler Riyadh Qatar the fierce 5-week-old Allied air War thundered on Friday. Allied artillery batteries blasted away at front line iraqi fortifications and . Forces kept up armed forays into Iraq and Kuwait the final Steps before a ground offensive.. Bombs get High Marks despite misses by the Washington Post Washington preliminary estimates of the accuracy of . Bombs dropped on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait suggest that hundreds of precision guided munitions have missed their targets and in some cases struck unintended Sites according to . Officials. These accidents involved a minority of the tens of thousands of tons of bombs that have been dropped in Allied air operations in the persian Gulf War. The operations have achieved an Overall level of bombing accuracy that exceeds the Pentagon a pre War expectations and the record of bombing accuracy in previous wars. But . Officials so far Only have disclosed anecdotal evidence of perfect bomb strikes. Between 110 million and 120 million pounds of explosives have been dropped on targets in Iraq and Kuwait during the past five weeks a senior Pentagon official said a an amount that May equal approximately 150,000 individual weapons according to several experts familiar with . Munitions being used. Estimated bombing accuracy rates in the persian Gulf War have been As High As 95 percent for the most advanced types of guided munitions but lower than 50 percent for Many unguided munitions several officials said. Given the furious Pace of combat in the Gulf even the relatively High Success rates mean Many failures the officials said. British officials this week highlighted the occasional tendency of so called a a smart bombs to go astray and cause collateral a or civilian a damage when they disclosed that a laser guided bomb had missed its target last week and struck a populated area in the iraqi town of Al Falluca. In contrast . Defense officials a Over the objections of senior air Force officials a have suppressed a film showing a . Smart bomb Early in the War accidentally striking a civilian building in downtown Baghdad across from the Interior ministry. Several Pentagon officials said unguided munitions frequently have missed such military targets As Bridges or a Mored revetments a circumstance that delayed successful prosecution of the air War against Republican guard forces around the iraqi kuwaiti Border. Independent analysts also note that the Allied coalition has been using several types of munitions with poor accuracy records in past conflicts and poor operational test results including at least one Type of guided bomb found to be so inaccurate that its production was halted abruptly six years ago. Although the Pentagon has declined to release a detailed tally of the munitions used to Date several officials said the smart bombs featured in the videotapes that have been shown during military briefings represent Only 5 percent to 10 percent of the total. The rest have been simple steel encased explosives a including some with designs dating from world War ii a that follow ballistic trajectories to their targets usually hitting within 50 to 100 feet. A potentially wide margin of error in Allied bombing was illustrated monday when military officials in Washington seeking to rebut iraqi claims that a bomb had struck a mosque in Basra said that while the bomb had missed the mosque it fell a half mile from the military command Center it was supposed to hit. A a a senior military official in Washington who has seen both still and video pictures of damage from inaccurate bombing said that More bombs have missed their targets in Iraq and Kuwait than political leaders have wanted to admit. But he said it May not be until after the War that a comprehensive estimate of weapons accuracy can be drawn from a detailed inventory of munitions used in the fighting and associated bomb damage. Asked about collateral damage from . Bombs White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said a a j he state of our technology has led people to believe sometimes that we have abilities to detect things or to avoid targets or whatever that we done to always have. On the other hand my study of recent histories would indicate that the purpose and goal of limiting civilian casualties is one that. We re just generally speaking better Able to do now than we have Ever been in the