European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday March 28, 1991 in the Gulf .\0>v.\\n.\v\vvc. C.vw\vxv.2v�oil smoke expected to spread in summer new York apr the scorching heat and dry winds of summer could spread the plume of toxic smoke rising from Kuwait a burning Oil Fields As far As Pakistan and India the science adviser to Jordan a King Hussein said tuesday. In addition evidence suggests that some of Kuwait a  have been permanently destroyed meaning that new Wells will have to be drilled to restore kuwaiti Oil production Abdullah Toukan said. Spring Rains have contained the spread of the smoke so far but rainfall will drop to almost Zero it april May and june and temperatures will Rise combining to loft the soot and smoke higher into the atmosphere Toukan said. The summer Sun will heat the soot causing it to Rise and a the higher it goes the More it spreads a Toukan said. A a you re talking about effects in Iran Pakistan even  the environmental consequences could be disastrous he said noting some reports that temperatures have fallen 15 degrees in Kuwait As the soot blotted out the Sun. A the drop in temperature has a great effect on livestock people Many other factors a he said. He said that White smoke is emerging from some kuwaiti Wells suggesting the Wells May no longer be useable. Oil under Kuwait is pooled in layers with natural Gas on top  water below he explained. The emerged Etc of White smoke a steam a suggests that those layers have been disturbed under some Wells. L a in sri to Weir a id Contr ,>ja5 so Uli Sils a up a a nose of a . Helicopter gunship Cou u of air ecu the said. 1 hat Means in Haifa Israel. Shull flanked by two unidentified . Marines was among child run Oil product we a s ,0 get at into visiinh8 the Amphia it Ioas assault ship Nassau when it stopped at the israeli port City in on producing. Route Home from the persian Gulf. R j Welcome to Israel iraqi refugees deserters describe wave of terror by the los Angeles times outside Sun Ash Shuyueh Iraq Saddam Hussein s troops have massacred iraqi women and children and Are rounding up and executing males Over age 15in, the Wake of a failed rebellion in Southern Iraa terrified refugees said. Thousands of ragged refugees flooded roads near Here 120 Miles Northwest of iraqis Border with Kuwait and swamped . Military checkpoints begging to be to Given political Asylum or to be taken As prisoners of War to escape the wave of terror and shelling of civilian neighbourhoods. Working from Busy Field hospitals . Medics have treated hundreds of iraqi civilians for Burns and Shrap net wounds and they said traumatized children were appearing with Bullet wounds and deep lacerations on their legs and backs. A they look like they be been beaten with barbed wire said Daryl Osby 22, a . Army medic at checkpoint a Ray. Hundreds of refugees crowded into a former workers Complex Here complaining that typhoid and Malar la Are sweeping the area. They pleaded for food water and help from the International red Cross or the . Army. A a a. A a a a a. A a a All of Saddam a bravado is being used against his own people a said one Man. A will no one kill Saddam a a please help us a one woman pleaded. A let this be an Appeal from families that Are  in one of the first looks deep into War ravaged South can Iraq a los Angeles times correspondent drove monday from the kuwaiti Border to near the limit of the .-held zone close to the euphrates River and about 20 Miles Southeast of the strategic City of an a Siriya. The six Lane Highway 1 is littered with the remains of scores of burned out trucks and tanks and several Bridges Are bombed out. Herds of camels and donkeys Graze near Tomato farms and unseasonable rain has brought surprising patches of Green to the wind swept desert. Curiously clusters of Roadside picnic tables Are mostly untouched. But refugees along the Way told tales of horror of casing on the collapse of the shiite Muslim led revolt during the past week. They spoke of the decapitation of children the machine gunning of families and the strafing of women by helicopter gunships. A Ini an Najaf a shiite hold City that was a stronghold of the resistance troops from the iraqi Republican guards 23rd brigade used 106mm artillery surface to surface rockets and phosphorus explosives against suspected rebel Homes and families one group of 63 refugees said. Ala Audi Zazem wept As he told of finding his wife and three children dead after iraqi troops fired shells into his Home in an Najaf. I found my son Raad 3 years old. Without a  he said tears streaming Down his face. Quot i could t stand it any  Ala Mohammed 30, an iraqi army deserter said families of suspected resistance members were taken from their Homes a lined against the Wall and shot. He said he found 12 infants abandoned after their parents had been killed. R a they took the wounded out of the Hospital them and the doctors treating them and they shot them a he said. A this we saw with our own  Jawad Mohammed 28, another deserter said Many families who had fled Early fighting had returned to an Najaf after the army took control Only to find death squads roaming the streets. \ a they have executed my family a he said his voice cracking. A my wife and three children Are no  Mohammed said he saw a woman carrying her daughter running Down the Street. A they hit her with a rocket and Cut her in two a he said. Several refugees said Saddam a troops had used some form chemical Gas against civilians in an a they were blinded their whole body was shaking and shivering a said Mohammed Abdul Zahra. 31 a teacher. A this is the ugliest of  a. Similar atrocities were reported in an Nasi Riya and the nearby town of Sun Ash Shuyueh. Republican they took the wounded out of the Hospital them and the doctors treating them and they shot them. This we saw with our own eyes. Is iraqi a deserter Ala Mohammed guard units advancing from Baghdad recaptured both cities a few Days ago using heavy artillery and helicopter gunships refugees said. Abdul Zazem tales 25, said troops arriving in an Nasi Riya killed captured resistance fighters in a particularly gruesome fashion by draining their blood to give to wounded Republican guard soldiers. A they executed children a he said. A they brought families out and executed them in front of their  one deserter Ibrahim Mehdi Ibrahim 32, admitted participating in the army a Battle to regain Qadi Siya South of an Najaf. A in the beginning we shelled families inside the town with 130mm artillery a he said after seeking Asylum at a . Checkpoint. A and then helicopter gunships started hitting people. The women ran to the Fields and helicopters followed them. The helicopters started harvesting them.�?�. Alter taking control he said special iraqi military Security forces went to Homes and rounded up any males older than 15. He said groups of 20 to 30 were being shot at a time then buried in mass Graves. Their Homes were then dynamited he said. Ibrahim said he and several friends deserted the resistance when he found that his own Mother and Little brother had been killed As Well. A we ran away a he said. A we told ourselves we done to want to do  in Sun Ash Shuyueh one woman said families Are leaving a corpses of their children on garbage heaps where they were dumped after execution rather than risk being identified As resistance  committed a terrific massacre a said humid Jassim 21. A everyone Over 15 is threatened with  some of the refugees came from As far As Northern a rate Iju a separate rebellion of kurdish nationalists is still underway. One of them Tamer Youssef a de sorter from Kirkuk North of Baghdad said his father and brother also had been killed. There Are hidden crimes that will make your hair turn Gray he said a thousands of Young men of Iraq have been  y hundreds of other Young iraqi men flocked to . Mih tary checkpoints pleading to be taken As prisoners 0 War. Policy appeared to vary from Post to Post however with some . Officers refusing All prisoners others taking Only those in uniform and still others accepting anyone who asked. At a checkpoint on the dirt Road to Sun Ash Shuyueh for example 1st it. , 27, of Holliston muss., said he was under new orders to disarm All iraqis but to take them prisoner Only if they acted in a thess Days has tr0pps took 350 prisoners in no in i  free ride to saudi Arabia a he said a i or Many in Brown military berets a a uniforms crowded around to offer themselves up. Rte Conn re Epos enemy prisoners of Ware re he a ? feedirj8 hem and taking care of them a he said if we started there a be no end to  Meja Lona it 36> of Guam said Many feared hot i returned Home. A a everybody wants ice to because if they go Back they re deserts ers they want to be a pow and get better  1 a key Kph nth Back on Highway 1, it. Chris nn25�?~f  of Allentown pa., said Many iraqi men re faking a to to get pow status cd i soon As we started taking the first pos they started digging their old uniforms out and showing up he said As another dump truck full of would be prison ers rumbled up. Elsewhere several heavily guarded . Truck convoys ferried hundreds of iraqi pos South to processing Camps in saudi Arabia. One Convoy had six trucks and about 300 prisoners. Another two trucks held 104 iraqis. V ?11 took Over 100 pos today a said it. Rhu i a cd a of Miller place it n.y., head of checkpoint a Ray near the Border town of Safwan. It they be got military ids Well take  Walter said another 400 refugees were being fed and sheltered at a nearby desert Camp after asking for Polit Leal Asylum. R