PERSIAN GULF WAR
Bombed bunker sheltered
military, British paper says
LONDON (A P) — A newspa
per Friday quoted a senior l ’ S
military source as saving the
shelter in Baghdad was not a
command center but was
bombed because Iraqi military
officers were believed to In*
sheltering there.
Iraqi officials say about 500
people died when the bunker
— which they described as a
purely civilian bomb shelter
was hit by two 2,000-pound
bombs dropped by U S planes
early Wednesday.
The London paper The Inde
pendent. in a dispatch from Ri
yadh, Saudi Arabia, quoted the
U.S. source as contradicting
the official U.S. position that
the facility was bombed be
cause it was a command and
control center.
Reporter Robert Fisk wrote
that the source spoke on condi
tion of anonymity. The source
was quoted as saying, "There's
not a soul who believes that it
was a command and control
bunker
"1 think tin' offi( ial statement
on'this will change in the com
ing days. The military did be
lieve it contained soldiers We
thought it was a militarv per
sonnel bunker."
l.t. Col. Steve Roy the Penta
gon's night duty off it er Tliurs
(lay. denied The Independent's
report
"The premise that we
bombed the facility he< a use it
was a site for Iraqi leadership
and not a command and i ontrnl
center is wrong," Roy said
"We bombed it because it was
a command and control cen
ter."
The Independent also quoted
the source as saying the car
nage from the tximhing had
alarmed Saudi military offi
cials. who worry that destruc
tion could destabilize the re
gion in a postwar era
U.S. officials in Washington
have said they did not know
why civilians were in the shel
ter and suggested Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein might lx
using Iraqi civilians as human
shields.
Reporters in Baghdad who
toured the rubble of the shelter
said they saw no sign it had
any military use
Fisk quoted the source as
saying of the aftermath of the
deaths in Baghdad "The pilot
of the aircraft who did this will
know it was him But it wasn't
Ins fault. Saddam Hussein does
put civilians in military hunk
ers and he is to blame lor this
irresponsibility But we wen
wrong. too,"
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Council debates U.S. bombing
UNITED NATIONS IAP) -
The U N. Security Council
opened debate on the Gulf
War Thursday in its first
closeddoor session in 15
years. Iraq's envoy con
demned the bombing deaths
of civilians in Baghdad and
declared Kuwait a province of
Iraq.
China called the reports of
civilian casualties and mas
sive destruction caused by al
lied raids in Iraq ‘'extremely
grave” and offered its own
plan for achieving a peaceful
solution.
The debate was the first on
the war by the 15-member
council. In November the
council authorized the United
States and its allies to use mil
itary force to drive Iraq from
Kuwait after |an 15
The council adjourned
Thursday night after three
and one-half hours of delwte
and was to reconvene Friday
morning. At least 30 speakers
were on the list for a debate
that could continue for days.
• • •
DHAHRAN. Saudi Arabia
|AP) — From the Kuwait coast
to central Iraq. U.S and allied
pilots pounded away at fresh
targets Thursday, unimpeded
by th*» international furor over
the Baghdad bunker tragedy.
The U S command, in re
spouse to the death of hun
dreds of civilians in Wodnes
day's Baghdad bombing, said
it was looking for new ways
to limit such casualties —
possibly including advance
announcements of its targets.
The air war buildup to an
armor-and-infantry push into
Kuwait appeared to have
made major progress. The
command said one-third of
Iraq's tanks and artillery in
the battle zone have now been
destroyed.
Strategists are believed to
be shooting for 50-percent de
struction before ordering the
ground assault.
• • •
WELLINGTON, New /.ea
land |AP) Special spheres
of New Zealand wool whii.h
can effectively soak up to 40
times their own weight in oil
will be used in the cleanup of
oil spilled in the Persian Gulf,
officials said today
The manufacturer,
Uonaghvs Textiles Ltd . said
tests proved successful on
samples encased in two 10
foot mesh booms sent to Sau
di Arabia
Donaghys marketing man
ager Hugh Ross said the com
pany was asked Thursday to
immediately send 60 more
booms.
Ross said he expects the
cleanup to take up to five
year*.
• • •
MANAMA. Bahrain (AP) -
U.S and other Western navy
ships will begin escorting oil
tankers and other merchant
vessels through the Persian
Gulf. Lloyd's shipping service
said Thursday.
Such escorts were instru
mental to keeping the flow of
oil through the waterway dur
ing the Iran-lraq war.
Warships are poised to ad
vise merchant vessels enter
ing the gulf of potential haz
ards and mine threats, accord
ing to the London-based agen
cy. It said they also will coor
dinate escorts on request for
vessels headed north of the
Saudi Arabian i ity of |ubatl
Jubail is 40 miles north of
Ras Tanura. the main oil ship
ping port of Saudi Arabia,
which is the world's leading
oil exporter
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