European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To . Expanded nuclear list promised Baghdad Iraq apr facing a . Deadline and threats of military action Iraq has promised an expanded list of its nuclear facilities the head of a . Inspection team said saturday. The disclosure came a Day after the five permanent members of the . Security Council firmly warned Iraq to disclose its nuclear capabilities by july 25 or face serious consequences Western diplomats at the United nations said. Washington says Iraq could face military strikes to eliminate nuclear facilities but that an attack was not imminent. Under the . Cease fire terms that ended the Gulf War Iraq is required to disclose All its nuclear chemical and biological weapons capabilities in preparation for their destruction. The United states says iraqi disclosures so far have fallen Short and that Baghdad has been trying to develop a nuclear weapon. Iraq denies the charge. Baghdad a new list would be the third and most detailed yet since the first report april 27. It would be in effect yet another admission that the iraqi government has not fully disclosed its nuclear capabilities. A i am expecting the list tonight or tomorrow a said Dimitri Perrico the chief . Inspector on saturday. A i Hope to get it  the warning from the . Security Council apparently came in response to re ports by per Ricos team sources said. A. On thursday the 37-Membcr . Inspection team paid a Surprise visit to a uranium production Plant near the Northern City of Mosul Perrico said in an interview. The Plant had not Beer included on previous lists. The governments initial list included 24 facilities. Since then the . Special commission overseeing destruction of Irakis weapons of mass destruction has acquired information indicating there were More Sites. The new list is expected to account for those the sources said. On june 28, iraqi soldiers fired warning shots to pre see Iraq on Page 10eco-War rages Long after cease fire s4& Ken George one a the More than 600 Oil Wells still Burns in Kuwait despite firefighting efforts. By Luke Britt staff writer the havoc wrought by the eco War waged by Saddam Hussein in Kuwait continues to rage Long after the cease firc. Firefighters still Are battling More Tolian 600 burning Oil Wells. Workers in saudi Arabia still Are try ing to save Oil damaged coastal Marshlands and fishing Waters. Acid rain still is falling in neighbouring countries. And on the sidelines the rest of the world grapples with the concept of a environmental terrorism on an in presented scale. A War is hell but it is supposed to be a kind of organized hell a a saudi official lamented after millions of barrels of Oil began pouring into the persian Gulf. Certainly environmental warfare Isnit a new  a devastating March to the sea during the civil War was a potent strategic and psychological weapon and Stalin a scorched Earth Retreat denied the nazis much of the spoils of their Early victories. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected the health and ecosystem of Japan for generations. And it May be that Long before anyone can fully assess the damage wrought by the massive use of agent Orange and other defoliants in Vietnam and Cambodia. A but none of those events seems the equal of what is occurring in the persian Gulf. Never before has there been such a Large scale destruction of the environment for military Means asserts Michael Bailey of the environmental group Earth Trust. Saddam Hussein a deeds were not without some military objective. The torching of the Oil Fields created a dense smoke Cloud that at times made it difficult for Allied pilots to see targets in Kuwait and Southern Iraq . Military spokesmen said. Opening the Oil valves at the sea Island terminal created a 9-mile wide band of Oil that would have complicated and Allied amphibious assault had such an attack been launched. The Geneva convention of 1977 added environmental damage to the list of unacceptable War tactics. However the convention condemns Only those attacks on  that cause mass destruction or injure civilians such As the poisoning of City water supplies said Michael Renner of the world watch environmental group. A we must have stronger language that makes it Clear that purposeful damage to the environment is a War crime a Renner said. A a in a not certain that what Iraq did violated the present  the persian Gulf cease fire agreement . Resolution 687, states that Iraq is a liable under International Law for any direct loss damage including environmental damage and the depletion of special report environmental holocaust the persian Gulf see inside Center for a special eight Page report natural resources a resulting from the invasion of Kuwait. The Casc fire created a fund by which Iraq is supposed to repay countries for the damage caused by the Oil spill an foil Well fires. However it probably will be years before the Multi billion Dollar debt can be paid. The continuing . Economic sanctions prevent Iraq from exporting Oil thus denying the country its primary source of Revenue to make War reparations. Bailey noted that if there is anything positive to come out of Hussein a holocaust it is that world attention has been focused on the environmental issues. Changes in the rules of War May result from the plethora of commissions and scientific research teams forming to study what Iraq has done. A i think this time we be got Peoples attention Quot he said