European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Iraq saturday january 16,15d3 7at Best give them a military analysts unimpressed by . Washington it apr the hit arid miss Allied bombing raids sent a Quot garbled message at Best to iraqi president Saddam Hussein Independent military analysts said thursday Quot with 100 aircraft sent on the Mission with no opposition wed at Best have to give them a a plus Grade a said retired rear adm. Gene la Rocque director of the Center for defense information a frequent critic of . Military policies. . Officials said they considered wednesdays Mission a Success even if some iraqi anti aircraft missile batteries were not hit because the Central goal was to silence the missile threat a either by destroying them or making Iraq move them. When the missiles Are on the move they cannot be used against aircraft. Pete Williams the Pentagon spokesman said that besides shutting Down the air defences president Bush wanted to Quot Send Iraq a Clear signal Quot that it must abide by the . Resolutions that ended the persian Gulf War. Quot if this was done to Send a message it a Carly was a garbled message we sent Quot la Rocque said. A Peter Rodman a former National Security Council staff member said that however successful the Mission May have been it was too limited to dissuade Saddam. Quot this retaliation was a change to inflict real pain a he said Quot we should have inflicted real pain that was More than Saddam Hussein expected. In a afraid we did less than he expected and its not Likely to discourage him from doing something  Williams said that of the bombs that missed their targets one hit Quot some kind of Structure that was not supposed to have been bombed. He said he did not know what kind of Structure it was or whether any civilians were in or near it. The Pentagon disclosed that one of the four anti aircraft missile batteries it tar acted in Southern Iraq was destroyed while three others May Well have escaped the barrage of sophisticated bombs dropped by ., British and French planes. The three were disassembled and As a result were temporarily unusable it a Sailor wears a mask to protect against the cold and wind thursday on the deck of the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk in the persian Gulf. A Day after warplanes dropped bombs Over Iraq fighters continued to take off on patrols. Said. Also All four of the air defense command centers targeted in Southern Iraq were damaged a senior military official said. The official speaking on condition of anonymity said that two of the command centers sustained a severe damage and that one was Hurt moderately and one lightly. The main Point Williams said was that the interlocking system of air defense radars communications and mis a Silas in Southern Iraq no longer posed a threat to the Allied aircraft patrolling the no Fly zone imposed on Iraq South of the 32nd parallel. Quot if you re trying to Knock communications out Between Dodge City and the next town Down the Pony express trails you done to have to saw Down every Telegraph pole you just have to Cut the wire once a Williams said. Quot the iraqi Southern air defense network is now seriously  but some analysts said the warplanes could have been expected to do More damage. The Large number of attacking . And Allied bombers a about 40 and 70 support planes a and the absence of substantial iraqi resistance should have ensured a Clear Success against targets Well known to . Military planners they said. Quot it explodes the. Myth of a surgical strike a la Rocque said. A i think Hussein comes out a Winner a said Joshua m. Epstein an International affairs specialist at the Brookings institution. Quot he can claim he stood up to the  the Pentagon showed videotape from cameras aboard the attacking . Jets. In one Clouds that obscured a bombers View of its target prompted the Pilot to pull away and not release his weapons. In another two bombs launched by an of is Eagle missed their target. Two pieces of videotape showed american planes bombs hitting targets though it could not be determined from the tape How badly they were  keeps Busy with double missions Tampa Phi. A wednesdays bombing raid on Iraq was directed from a nerve Center half a world away r the . Central come at Tampa Flay which is also handling the somalian Relief Effort. Quot its a lot a Marine Gen. Joseph p. Hoar who commands the Center said of carrying out the two missions simultaneously. But Hoar added that Central Comdr a involvement in Somalia did no to limit the Allied and american strike against iraqi anti aircraft missile Sites which took Only a half hour to carry out. Quot we were capable of doing More if we had to Elloar said during a briefing later wednesday at Macdill a1b. Hoar said that based on Early Pilot reports he was Quot cautiously optimistic the Mission had been a Success. He was still awaiting bomb damage reports and film from gun cameras. The Marine has been at the Helm of Central come for 17 months succeeding army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf who retired Floi Sert storm. In 1991 after commanding operation be the command created in 1983 As Succes Sor to the rapid deployment Force is responsible for . Interests in the arabian Peninsula Northeast Africa and parts of Southwest Asia. The area encompasses 18 countries with a population of More than 316 million and terrain that rises to 24,000 feet in some areas and Falls below sea level mothers. Hoar operates from a High tech War room with three big screens showing positions of Allied ships and planes in the Middle East. A Telephone Bank includes direct tines to the joint chiefs of staff and the White House while the command has no troops of its own 400,000 personnel stationed around the United states remain ready to carry out its orders. The personnel Are members of various branches of the armed forces. Also attending wednesday s briefing were military representatives from Kuwait Italy Greece and Australia who were visiting to connection with the somalian hunger Relief operation. A kuwaiti army officer a Yakoub said he hoped iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein a would Lake a Good lesson Quot from the air strike.. Has double Standard in Middle East arabs say Nicosia Cyprus apr Arab nations said Friday that the .-led attack on Iraq represented a double Standard in enforcing . Security Council resolutions because israeli non compliance has not been similarly punished. Iraqi newspapers continued to voice Defiance to the Allied demand that its president Saddam Hussein comply with the , cease fire resolutions that ended the 1991 persian Gulf War. Ai thaw a newspaper the mouthpiece of Saddam a ruling baath party said in an editorial that since the Quot criminal Bush could not impose his will on iraqi land in the 1991 War he had begun trying to occupy its airspace. It said Iraq Quot is resisting politically and on the  another Baghdad newspaper Al Jum Huriya insisted that Quot the iraqi sky. Will be in flames to roast the aggressors and to scatter their Blind  in Jordan prime minister Zaid bin Shaker told the state owned Petra news Agency that the use of military Force against Iraq but not Israel to enforce Security Council resolutions constitutes a double Standard. Last month the jewish state deported 415 palestinians to South Lebanon. The , Security Council on dec. 19 ordered the men repatriated. But Israel has refused to comply and about 400 of the men remain camped in a freezing no Many a land. Lebanese defense minister Moh sen Dalloul told the French language daily la Orient be Jour that he hoped the International Community would a reckon with Israel the Way it has with Iraq whenever it violated .