PERSIAN GULF WAR
Ex-attorney general says ‘collateral damage’ heavy
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In
endless hours of air strikes, U.S. and al
lied pilots rocker! Baghdad, key bridges
and the hunkers of front-line troops
Thursday, and blow two more Iraqi
"getaway jets” out of the sky.
A second veteran U.S. battleship
joined in the bombardment of Iraqi-hold
Kuwait.
Tho pounding was having an impact.
Returning pilots told of a devastated
landscape in Kuwait, and journalists
near the bonier found first-hand evi
dence — four Iraqi soldiers who turned
themselves in muttering over and over
about the "bombing ... bombing ...
bombing."
But Desert Storm losses mounted, too.
A U.S. Navy FA-18 Hornet fighter wont
down in the northom Persian Gulf, ap
parently not from hostile flro. and an
Army holicoptor crashed in Saudi Ara
bia. The Navy pilot was missing; one
soldier was killed and four were wound
ed in tho helicopter accident.
President Bush's two top war advisors
— Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and
joint chiefs chairman Gen. Colin Powell
— flew to tho gulf to con for over tho
weekend with local commanders on tho
countdown to a ground offensive, a mo
mentous clash between a half-million or
more men on each side.
"Our hope Is (hat wo can wrap it up
as soon as possible, to minimi/.n tho loss
of life on all sides.” the defense secre
tary said before he left.
The commander of British forces in
Operation Desert Storm, Ll. Gen. Peter
do la Billloro. told reporters he believes
“tho land war is inevitable." A US.
command spokesman disputed tho use
of “inevltahlo." But up on the northern
desert lino, U S. troops had little doubt.
"This could get vory ugly at any mo
ment," one officer told a reporter visit
ing tho Saudi-Kuwaiti front. That view
found high-lovol support in Franco,
where President Francois Mitterrand
told reporters: “The ground battle prom
isos to take place ... this month."
Miles from the wind-whipped front,
some clung to hopes for peace. In Teh
ran. Turkey's foreign minister met with
President Hashemi Kafsanjani to discuss
tho Iranian leader's offer to mediate be
tween Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
and tho international ullianco arrayed
against him. A .Soviet envoy also was to
moot with Iranian officials.
Tho Bush administration says thorn is
nothing to mediatn: Saddam must sim
ply announce a withdrawal from Ku
wait.
Out Saddam showed no signs of sur
render. Iraq launched one of Its largely
Ineffective Scud missiles early Friday at
Riyadh. Like an estimated 17 others
fired previously at the Saudi capital, it
was intercepted by a U S Patriot mis
sile. Tho wreckage landed in a parking
lot and caused no in|urins or major dam
ugn, witnesses said.
Allied WHrplanes haltered Baghdad
for 12 hours from Wednesday night to
Thursday morning. Associated Press
correspondent Suluh Nasrawl reporter!
from tho Iraqi capital.
He said at least 10 homes were de
stroyed or heavily damaged, and Iraqi
authorities said 22 civilians were killed.
Ramsey Clark, the former U.S. attor
ney general and peace activist who is in
Baghdad this week, told reporters that
residential damage showod the IJ.S. air
war exceeded tho mandate of U.N. Secu
rity Council Resolution 678, which au
thorized the use of force to expel Iraq
from Kuwait.
"You don't havo to bomb cities. It has
nothing to do with resolution 678,” he
said.
Clark said he visited thu heavily
bombed southern port city of Basra and
described what he saw as "a human and
civilian tragedy." including bombing of
hospitals and othnr non-military sltos.
Ha also said a Baghdad doctor spoko
of several thousand deaths of injuries
from allied air strikes. Iraqi authorities
have reported mom than 400 civilian
deaths.
Asked about ('lark's statements at>uut
civilian casualties at a news briefing in
Riyadh, a IJ.S. command spokesman.
Marine Brig. Gan. Richard I. Neal, said:
"War is a dirty business, and unfortu
nately thure will bo collateral damage."
He used the military euphemism for
civilian casualties.
And allied pilots were discovering an
other obstacle to their three-week-old air
war against Iraqi positions: the easiest
targuts had already been hit.
"We havo fewer targets than we did
when wo started," said Col. Hal Horn
burg. 45. of Dallas, commander of the
4th Tactical Fighter Wing Provisional.
He and others cited bunkers which hid
Iraq's armor und decoys that sometimes
fooled allied pilots.
Neal said li.S. Air Force F-15s shot
down two or three Iraqi SlJ-22 attack
jots as they tried to fly to Iran. Tehran
television said five Iraqi warplanes, ap
parently including those caught by the
American pilots, crasher! while Honing
to Inin.
need backing
LONDON (AP) — Syria'*
foreign minister Mid Tbum
day that if Israel did not laa**
the occupied territories eftet
the Gulf War, the situation in
the Middle East would
"If we stand flflMH
Arab country occupying an
Arab country, then it iaeven
more natural to stand firm
against Israel occupying an
Arab country,” Pmrouk el*
Share said on the final day of
a two-day visit to Britain.
Syria, led by a branch of the
Arab Baath Socialist Party op
posed to the wing heeded by
Iraqi President Saddam Hus
sein. has contributed 20,000
troops to the multinational co
alition trying to oust Iraq bunt
Kuwait.
Al-Shara also told a noses
conference that Weatern lead
identifying a tanoriat who
triad to plant a bomb on an
airliner at London’s Heathrow
Airport aa a Syrian agent
Trie Gulf War has also driv
an Syria closer to IradtUonaily
moderate Arab slates such as
%pl and Saudi Arabia.
Barnet Abdel-Meguld.
Egypt's foreign minister, and
his Saudi counterpart. Prince
Saud al-Falsal, announced
plana In Cairo on Thursday
for a general cooperation
agreement among the three
countries, whose foreign min
isters have met periodically
since October to coordinate
policy.
Abdel-Meguid said senior
Syrian, Egyptian and Saudi
officials will meet in the Syri
an capilol of Damascus soon
to draft the cooperation agree
ment.
Persian Gulf War summary
Morn's u summary of thn lutost numbers on tbo Porsiun Cull War.
REPORTED THURSDAY:
• 2,(>00 sorties.
• One non-combat U S. hollcoptnr crash, ono person k.illmi.
• Ono IJ.S. Nuvy piano lost ovor Oulf, non-combat, ono missing.
• Two, possibly three, Iraqi pianos shot down.
• 22 Iraqi civilian deaths.
SINCE START OF WAR:
Allied Sortie*
• Ovor 52,000 missions flown.
Reported by the allies:
• 30 killed in action, including 12 Americans and 18 Saudis.
• 24 Americans listed as non-combat deaths. An additional 105
Americans listed as non-combat deaths In Operation Desert Shield
before the war.
• 44 missing in action, including 2f> Americans, eight British, one
Italian and nine Saudis.
• 12 prisoners of war, including eight Americans, two British, ono
Italian and one Kuwaiti.
• 2B allied planes lost; 21 in combat, including 14 American, five
British, ono Kuwaiti, one Italian. Non-combat losses: seven planus,
including fivo American, one British, ono Saudi. Six American hel
icopters to non-hostlle causes
• Mom than 885 Iraqis taken prisoner.
• 135 Iraqi planes destroyed in air or on ground.
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