European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 15. 1993 my Iraq the stars and stripes Pago 9 troops set to fort Hood Texas apr with a persian Gulf War Veteran in command about 1,000 fort Hood soldiers prepared wednesday to Fly to Kuwait in the Wake of . And Allied air strikes on Iraq. A a. A. Quot As you can see fort Hood soldiers Are on the move again a said it. Gen. Horace g. A a Peter Taylor commander of the sprawling Post i Central Texas. A they will go in there draw their tanks a their equipment is already on the ground there. A a and go out and exercise. And be prepared for any other Mission the command Structure Over there might give them Quot Taylor said asked whether a 444 the troops would move into Iraq Taylor said that while their deployment was obviously connected to wednesdays air strike a they Are going into  a there Are no plans that i am aware of to go further than Kuwait a he said. For some members of the 1st Cav div it May be their third time in Kuwait they were involved in retaking the tiny county from Iraq during the persian Gulf War m 1991 and some returned last year for training Maneu vers. Taylor said col. Leon Laporte will Lead the battalion sized unit. Laporte was chief of staff for the 1st Cay div during the Gulf War. Some of fort Hood s More than 32,000 troops also Are deployed in Somalia and Taylor said wednesdays action will not affect that commitment. A we can do both. We Are very versatile a he said. First official reports came from Florida not Pentagon Washington apr scores of reporters roaming the Pentagon for Early details of wednesday s attack on Iraq had to watch from afar As the first defense department briefing was Given by a Marine corps general near Tampa Fla. In past major military actions abroad a such As the 1989 invasion of Panama and the air and ground assaults in the persian Gulf War in 1991 a the first Pentagon news briefings came from the department s brass. In the latest Case defense Secretary Dick Cheney and . Army Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff left it to Marine Gen. Joseph p. Hoar to do the talking. Hoar commands the . Central come which is responsible for coordinating . Military activities in the Region that includes Iraq. The command s Headquarters is Macdill fab near Tampa. A request was made for a phone link Between defense reporters in Washington and hoards briefing. None was provided. V s . R a iraqi president Saddam Hussein addresses his nation on television wednesday after american and Allied aircraft bombed missile Sites in Iraq after weeks of provocation by Iraq. Idea of killing Saddam leads to. It by Bob Deans Cox news service Washington Why not just kill him that question quickly surfaces each time Saddam Hussein becomes the target of . Military action to punish the iraqi president for some perceived aggression or Misbehaviour. The answer is that killing Saddam would be extremely difficult militarily could destabilize the volatile persian Gulf Region far More than Saddam himself has analysis done and would be in any event illegal under . Law a it has never been considered a White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said wednesday. A it has not been authorized by the United nations resolutions that Are after All the Legal and driving Force behind these  there Are analysts who done to fully accept the Short answer a i suspect that we really did try to get rid of him during the Guli War said professor Michael c. Hudson a mid die East expert at Georgetown University. A it was difficult then and i think its no Les difficult now a mainly its hard to know where Saddam is at any Given time. He is known to have multiple Bombproof shelters spread across his country. Some intelligence information suggests there Are several Saddam look alikes who serve As decoys. Even if Saddam s location could be pinpointed simply pounding it with massive air dropped explosives could risk killing hundreds a perhaps thousands a of civilians. What bothers Many analysts about the Prospect of killing Saddam is the troublesome question then what there is it turns out no obvious successor to Saddam either inside or outside of  has killed imprisoned or run out of the country anyone who might oppose him. Expatriate iraqi groups Are spread around the world but would have trouble establishing legitimacy if they tried to return to Baghdad to fill Saddam a shoes. A i done to think they re in a position to kind of go in and say a once Saddam is gone we re going to go in and set up the next government Quot Hudson said. Lacking a Clear Cut alternative Many analysts have concluded that Saddam is preferable to uncertainty anarchy or a combination of both. Ruthless and reckless though he May be perceived in the United states Saddam has held together a nation of disparate and often sharply divided Peoples in an explosive and violent Region. That served Western interests Well during most of the 1980s, when Iraq waged a costly War to prevent Iran from expanding its islamic state viewed As Radical and threatening by Washington and Many other Western governments. During the Gulf War in fact analysts warned that Iraq would be so weakened that Iran might finally prevail in the decade old Power struggle Between the two Gulf Oil giants. Iraq s neighbors particularly Turkey a an important . Ally in the War a a and Jordan feared that Baghdad might fall apart into separate Stales carved out along ethnic religious and political lines kuwaitis nervous but Happy Over strike at Iraq a Kuwait apr kuwaitis cheered he Western air strike against Iraq on wednesday but also scrambled to take precautions in the fear that their foe Ould again lash out at them. Long lines of cars formed at filling Sta ions and people raced to buy food. Kuwaitis and foreigners streamed to Auto Natick Teller machines to withdraw whatever Cash they could. Nawal Al Rabia 30, a teacher said she tarted making Gas masks with cloth and Oal out of fear Iraq would retaliate with i chemical weapon attack. A we Are afraid not of an invasion but of Saddam Hussein a crazy reactions a said the teacher. Yet others hoped the bombings by ., British and French warplanes on military targets in Southern Iraq could signal the beginning of a move to topple the iraqi dictator. A the kuwaiti people Are As Happy As Bride on her wedding Day Quot said columnist Fuad Al Hashem of the Al Watan newspaper. A am old Man called to Tell me that he never Felt that he wanted to live As much As he did today so that he could hear that Saddam has been  the attack came after repeated iraqi Defiance of . Cease fire provisions including incursions across the disputed Iraq Kuwait Border to take silkworm missiles and other equipment. On wednesday iraqis made their fourth such expedition in As Many Days. Reporters were not allowed into the area where 40 to 50 iraqi workers including women were dismantling warehouses and other buildings in a part of the umm Qasir naval base that was Given to Kuwait by the United nations. Charred hulks of Small combat boats littered the desert near the bunkers about 50 Miles North of the City of Kuwait. A French officer said the iraqis set fire to them after deciding they were not Worth retrieving Quot right now there is a sort of mixture of anxiety and Hope Quot said Laila Al oth Man said after the attacks. Quot children Are afraid. We still Haven to forgotten the invasion and the Gulf War but we Hope this time would be