European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page. 10 b the stabs and stripes tuesday March 5, 1991 from Page 1 of the Southern iraqi port town devastated twice in a decade by wars initiated by Saddam. He said the military had surrounded the City. Many people in Basra appeared to have guns taken from police stations and rumours that Saddam fled the country sparked celebrations in the City he said. Gunmen riddled portraits of the iraqi president with bullets he said. \ Iran a official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia Cyprus reported five explosions at m kid a in Basra. It said refugees fleeing the violence were streaming into Iran across the Border at Shalam Cheh. J it quoted refugees As saying Saddam a eldest son Udai was killed in the Battle at Basra along with a provincial governor arid the mayor. Refugees reaching this town. Just Hiorth of Kuwait most of them kuwaitis trying to return Home said demonstrators were marching in an Nasi Riya Sutra Sun Ash Shuyueh Amara Samara and Kut mostly in Southern Iraq. The refugees identified the holy City of Karbala As. The northernmost town wracked by protest. In the City South of Baghdad protesters slashed xes across portraits of Saddam arid Flung mud at them said two men who left the town on saturday. Witnesses said rioters looted govern ment warehouses before setting them afire and attacked prisons government offices or vehicles and the offices of. Sad dams ruling Arab baath socialist party in numerous towns. The baath governor of an Nasi Riyu was reportedly gunned Down by Dotson stators and police fought pitched Battles with them in tic streets refugees said. On monday a trickle of refugees became a flood at the wrecked Border town of Safwan. Vehicles groaned under mattresses and other household goods. Some refugees fled with just the clothes on their backs and Tore into army rations distributed at the checkpoint. J . Soldiers from the 1st inf div questioned the refugees As they passed through the town. A they said Basra is just absolute bedlam a said. Capt. Ernie Marcone 27, of Hollywood fla., quoting a group of engineers let across the Border late sunday a Quot they said there were riots and the re pub Licaisi guards were putting it Down. They had rolled tanks in. They said they were even shooting women and a kuwaiti translator working for the . Military said All the refugees were telling the same Story hut it was Imossi Hie to determine the extent of the uprising in Iraq. His positive reservist pos from Page 1 negate general. For the Middle East and North Africa. The pos were handed Over to the red Cross at a downtown Baghdad hotel. Rathbun Neely laughed when photog Raphers snapping her picture told her that her photo was the cover of the French Magazine Paris match. Y she and Zaun were filmed by the . Cable news network leaving on a bus from the Rashid hotel in Baghdad with the others. One male prisoners Arm was in a Sling the allies have said Iraq is known to have held 13 Allied prisoners of War including nine americans two britons an italian and a kuwaiti All men. The allies said they hold at least 60,000 iraqis. Sixty six other Allied prisoners had been listed As missing in action 45 americans 10 britons 10 saudis and one italian in Washington president Bush on monday welcomed iraqis release of the pos and said he would insist on free Dom for All captives including Quot every single one of the thousands of kuwaitis taken by Saddam Hussein a forces. Quot we re making Progress in our journey from War Tco i peace a the president told members of the veterans of foreign wars noting that Iraq had provided information about hidden mines to Allied commanders in a weekend meeting. Bush renewed his Call for Iraq to comply with All United nations resolutions covering the end of the persian Gulf War. I be said acquiescence by Baghdad would permit lire allies to move beyond the sus pension of hostilities to a More permanent and stable cease fire a. The president made his comments As his spokesman announced that Bush would be meeting individually in the coming weeks with Allied leaders to map plans for securing peace in the Middle East. Washington athe supreme court monday turned Down the Appeal of a naval reservist removed from Active duty because of his aids virus infection the court without comment let stand rungs that the reservist identified in court papers by the fictitious name John Doc cannot sue Navy oleic its Over the allegedly unlawful discrimination. Lower courts ruled that members of. The armed services have no right to sue Over employ Merit Bias that would be illegal outside the military. Doe sued the Navy in 1 986 after he was released from Active duty and returned to inactive Reserve status. By that time he had a Long history of military service dating Back to his enlisting in the Navy in 19.72. Doe served in the Navy Uhitil 1977 and enlisted in the naval Reserve in 1981. In 1985, Doe was made a temporary Active duty Petty officer based in Jacksonville Fla and assigned to assist in recruiting. In july 1986, he was admitted to the Navy a Hospital Portsmouth va., because he had tested positive As a Carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 Illa physical examination con firmed the presence of his antibodies but showed that Doe was otherwise in Good health someone who tests positive for his antibodies has been exposed to the aids virus but docs not necessarily have acquired immune deficiency month after his Hospital stay began Doe was returned to Active duty. But a month later he was told his Active duty would be ended because of his infection. Does lawsuit alleged that the Navy sending his Active duty violated the Cha Biji tation act of 1973 a Federal Law aimed of protect ing handicapped people a Federal judge and the 11th . Circuit court of appeals ruled that military members such As Doe cannot invoke the 1973 Law. In its ruling last june the appeals court noted that the Federal Law Banning on the Job Bias based on race sex religion or National origin does not apply to military members. Quot it would be incongruous to allow uniformed military personnel to bring discrimination claims against the military based on Handicap when statutory claims based on sex race religion or National origin Are barred a the appeals court said. In his Appeal. Doe said there is no evidence Congress intended to exclude military members from the protections offered in the 1973 anti Bias Lavy. 24 dead in South Africa Johannesburg South Africa apr members of the Zulu and xhosa tribes fought hand to hand at a Hostel in Soweto leaving at least 24 dead arid 15 injured police said monday. A senior police officer who spoke on condition of Tanori Amity. Said hundreds of armed zulus stormed through the Mead lowlands Hostel in the Black township sunday hacking and spearing xhosa to death a Quot v to . A. _ a terrified people were Cut Down As they tried to flee Pines were killed in toilets or in rooms where they had been eating and sleeping witnesses said. It was the worst outbreak of factional fighting in the Johannesburg Region in recent weeks. Battles last year claimed More than 1,000 armed police with armoured be hides surrounded the Hostel Early monday but the situation was quiet police said. A police helicopter hovered overhead As officers piled up the bodies of the dead. The fighting broke out when a Zulu was killed police said although they did no to say How he died. Zulus at the migrant workers Hostel then went on the rampage shooting and stabbing rival xhosa they said. From Page 1. City residents reported that they had witnessed iraqi violence or seen evidence of it. R r Ahmad Al a attn 31, a computer Engineer who works for Kuwait National Bank said his introduction to iraqi Quot hospitality a three months ago consisted of facing a firing squad equipped with soviet made Kalashnikov assault rifles. Someone had scrawled Quot death to Saddam on the Wall of the school next to us at Trina a House. A group of 3b to 35 iraqi soldiers blocked off his Street and told his parents and his two Brothers that they had an hour to move out before they would Burn their House. The family whose Green uniform and Brown boots identified him As a Republican guard officer ordered the three Brothers and four neighbors lined up before the firing squad while Al at tank a parents screamed in despair / a at the last moment the officer changed his mind Al Rattan said Quot he said a i done to want to shoot you but i have to bring Back bodies As evidence in a doing my Job. In l done to my Boss will kill that night he said iraqi soldiers returned to the neighbourhood and executed two teen age boys accused of Quot possessing anti Saddam pamphlets a neighbor s. Eyewitness account convinced Al qatari Quot that the. Same Republican guard lieutenant had ordered the killings. In an unrelated incident Al Rattan said iraqis apprehended one of his third cousins tortured him by pulling out his fingernails shot him in the head and brought his body Back to his family they then demanded payment from the family for the bullets they had used to kill him. Not All of the iraqis were brutal. However. Many enlisted soldiers seemed embarrassed by their role As occupiers arid acted kindly toward residents some kuwaiti citizens said. Some of the occupiers even tipped off kuwaitis in Advance of iraqi searches on their houses said camber the school teacherj3ut officers showed Little compassion. A the officers Are very rude and Tough. And always the language is very dirty a Al Rattan said. Quot i done to know they hated us for some reason its like you killed his father or something. That s How they hated the iraqis also acted ruthlessly when disciplining their own the kuwaitis said. Al Rattan said he saw the Fly covered body of an iraqi Soldier hang Lamppost for three Days suspended by a rope wrapped around its Torso and under its arms. The Soldier had been shot. Half of his head was missing. A they claim that this Guy was stealing but i Don to believe that. I think he was trying to escape Quot Al Rattan said. In Ruma Thya camber said five palestinians in the iraqi army broke into horses on a Street near her Home and raped a 17-year-old girl and two women three nights in a Row. A we took them to the Hospital. They were camber said her eyes brimming with tears. Neighbors sought help at the local police station where the iraqi commander asked to be notified the next time the soldiers showed up. The soldiers returned the next night walking past a stakeout of kuwaitis who called the police station. The commander showed up with reinforcements and Cap lured All five soldiers. Camber saw the five hanged in the nearby District of Johnh Al Salam the next Day but instances of iraqis looking out for kuwaiti interests were the exception not the Rule two City residents said. It kuwaitis tailed to Exchange their car License plates for iraqi ones their cars were seized. If they failed to obtain iraqi identity cards they risked losing their jobs. In fact several doctors at Mubarek Hospital who refused to get new identity cards rarely ventured outside the Hospital because of it said Jehad Al Gharab ally assistant manager of Kuwait medical services department. And if iraqi officials caught kuwaitis with kuwaiti currency a kuwaiti Flag or anti iraqi propaganda the penalty was often execution. _ Ruma Thya a has been too much punished by the iraqi people a camber said adding this was possibly because As it a was the biggest area in Kuwait and everybody stayed. They did t run like the others camber said she played a role in the resistance by delivering weapons. Resistance fighters loaded her car trunk with weapons at one secret location she drove with her children to another location where other Resis Tunce fighters removed the weapons. Camber never saw the guns. / a. _ a. A she said they used code words when speaking on the Telephone. At one Point guns were called bananas and iraqis were called a we said a the flies come. There Are too Many Flics m the area a Quot camber said. The seven months of occupation seem like seven years to Al Rattan but he said he thinks it Wall strengthen his country and he looks Forward to the democratic reforms promised by kuwaiti Emir Sheik juber a. Ahmed Al Sabah. "1 think the future of Kuwait will be much better Quot he said. Quot we Learned a lot from this crisis and that will help us build the new abut it will probably take another Century for kuwaitis to be Able to Trust iraqis he said. Quot i hate them a
