European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june15, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3existing iraqi nuclear threat feared from wire reports Washington Secretary of defense Dick Cheney acknowledged that Iraq May have had some nuclear facilities so Well concealed that they escaped destruction during the persian Gulf War Cheney said thursday that the administration wants a . Team to search a every conceivable site where facilities May be hidden. In addition he said . Intelligence agencies Are doing All they can to a get a better assessment of what remains of iraqis ability to produce weapons of mass destruction including nuclear chemical and biological weapons and the missiles needed to deliver them. While . Bombing raids raids did a enormous damage to Baghdad a ability to produce such weapons Cheney said that a what remains of those capabilities what May have been hidden the facilities that we did no to know about obviously we can to Sayi Cheney declined to comment on reports that a senior iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the United states recently told department of defense experts that a significant part of iraqis nuclear research facilities survived the bombing. The experts have debriefed the scientist As part of a broader Effort to determine How much nuclear material remains and whether Iraq is still capable of developing nuclear weapons. On Friday two officials said the scientist told interrogators that Iraq used 1940s technology to make weapons Grade uranium in a nuclear project previously undetected by the United states. The scientist who turned himself in to rash of saudi beheading draws protests Nicosia Cyprus a saudi swordsmen have publicly beheaded 16 men within the past three weeks after a 10-month pause touching off a protest from human rights groups but Little local reaction even among saudi liberals. A a a 1. For the saudis the executions were business As usual after the departure of nearly All Western troops and journalists. A the executions were stopped in order to avoid upsetting Western Public opinion a Andrew Whitley director of the new York based human rights group Middle East watch said Friday. A that to our minds is a cynical Manip Illarion of the Legal  the new executions in a chop Square in Riyadh and other cities highlighted traditions camouflaged from Western eyes during the Gulf War and indicated other severe islamic Law punishments could also resume soon. The saudi islamic code mandates death for murderers rapists and drug smugglers flogging Tor theft and amputation of a hand for repeated theft. In Kuwait a Man and a woman have been sentenced to death by hanging for allegedly collaborating with the iraqi occupiers during the War. The latest ruling came thursday. Neither has yet been executed but amnesty International and other human rights organizations say the f trials Are unfair. Kuwaiti defense lawyers have lambasted the prosecution for failing to produce witnesses. Violent death at the hands of government with or without a fair trial is commonplace in Many Middle Eastern countries. In Iraq  Are on the wrong Side of government forces Are shot and the families made to pay Tor the bullets. In Iran government opponents murderers and drug smugglers Are mime times hanged trom construction cranes. Occasionally adulterers Are publicly stoned to death. Saudi arabian executions resumed when a sudanese was beheaded in a Remote town on the yemeni Border on May 24, the first Public execution since july 20 of last year which was less than two weeks before Iraq invaded Kuwait. 1 he resumption of judicial killings took place so quietly that it was not a a widely noticed by the International news Media until two weeks later. Since then paid swordsmen have executed 15 other men m Public squares of various towns alter the weekly Friday prayers with crowds m attendance . Troops in Northern Iraq said Iraq had produced More than 80 pounds of enriched uranium using that process the officials said. The defector is reported to have told his interrogators that the nuclear project is being conducted near the Northern City of Mosul. . And soviet intelligence officials have known for some time that Iraq was conducting uranium enrichment work at a research Complex called Saad 16 near Mosul. They have also known that Iraq was mining uranium and building related facilities at a site about 40 Miles South of the turkish Border and not far from Mosul. What a new said one official is that the defector revealed Iraq had been trying to make weapons Grade uranium using a process known As Cal tron a method once used by the United states but abandoned in the mid 1940s, said the Otticia. A a he stalking about a primitive very inefficient technique a said the Otticia. No country with a serious nuclear program has used it since he added. Lie and another Otticia a both speaking on Scondi Toiv of anonymity a said some of the defectors information was based on hearsay and was being regarded with caution by intelligence  Mac s place kept troops refreshed by Joseph Owen staff writer Zakhoo Iraq a it had ambience. It had Shade. And its bar stools were overturned 152mm iraqi artillery shells. Even so a a Mac a place a the newest bar in Zakhoo went out of business this week. After All How can you stay a a liquid when All your customers and employees move out of Tow the remaining sailors of the 133rd naval Marine construction in Seabee Are scheduled to do that today scattering to military Sites across the Mediterranean where they had been on a seven month deployment from Gulfport miss., when operation provide Comfort interrupted. While in Iraq the Seabee helped repair an Airfield in Sirsen and helped build huge refugee transit Camps outside Zakhoo. But two co a sailors also built a bar in their spare time a or what passes for a bar in these parts. A when we originally started i was Selling sodas on a chair in front of dispatch. Then we built this stand a said Petty officer 3rd class Frederic j. Mcallister 22, of Clay county w.va., the equipment operator after whom the bar is  the bar expanded it acquired an unmistakably military Motif. At the stand Mcallister and his partner Petty officer 2nd class Jay e. Stephens 29, an equipment dispatcher from Statesboro ga., sold sodas and 1 gave away Orange juice from an ice filled trash can. The stand was decorated with a .50-caliber iraqi machine gun Bandolier an iraqi army helmet and two shovels. The tip can was a discarded american smoke grenade casing and the Cash Box was a first Aid kit renamed a a a a thirst aids kit. Elsewhere under the military camouflage netting that served to reduce the near constant Glare of the Sun accessories included an iraqi canteen and  mask a homemade weapons rack another rack for other gear and a Small stereo system. A. A the bar served no alcohol which in any event is con Traband for . Troops serving in Iraq. But the sailors did keep bar tabs for payments both in Advance and arrears. They dispensed sardines and Corn nuts taken from troop morale packages and offered fresh water melons obtained from local farms. And they cultivated sarcastic humor. A sign said the bar had just run out of cold Beer and the nude dancing girls were taking a break. A get any tips a asked equipment operator Petty officer 1st class Bruce Trombley 34, of Storrs Conn. A amps Joseph Owen while customers drink Petty officer 3rd class Frederic j. Mcallister right watches from behind the bar. Mcallister and Stephens also made 11.signs to advertise the bar. A relieve Youte Elf and make room for another one at macs place a tort one in the latrine a a done to Plant your Corn in Iraq a Mcallister answered. Trombley who described himself As an undercover waitress and bouncer said he patronized the soda bar because a a in a part of Alpha co and this is Alpha cons space Here. And its macs  he reflected for a moment then added a besides that if s close to  in its three weeks in business macs place stayed open usually from 6 . To 7 30 p.m., and often later. A sometimes we be got Crews working out a til nine or so so we stay up Here so they can have something cold to drink when they get Back a Stephens said. Said. A sign at the chaplains ten urged battalion members to visit macs a for a heavenly  1 a 7he battalion morale welfare and recreation fund received half the profits. Co a kept the other half to stage1 a party after the deployment. The company fund had ,240 in it about a week ago. Stephens said neither he nor Mcallister have run a bar before but a if we did this Good maybe we ought to think about  i