PERSIAN GULF WAR
OFFENSIVE
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Armv general shut ti.n k.
"We re going Jo go around
over, through, on top. under
neath and -any other wa\
Hours after the invasion
jumped off about 4 a m. Sun
dav |H p.m KST Naturdav) and
Haghdad came under renewed
<ur bombardment, Saddam Hus
sein went on official I rat j i radio
to urge his troops on "l ight
them and show no men v." the
Iraqi president said
Iraip military communiques
later asserted that the offensive
"has so tar failed utterly." and
claimed to have "wiped out"
paratroopers dropped behind
Iraqi lines in western Kuwait
Iraq struck Israel early Mon
day with its .,18th Si ud at tat k
on the Jewish slate and the first
since the ground offensive tie
gan Israel said the missile
landed harmlessly in an unset
tied area of southern Israel
President Hush, in a tolevi
sion address late Saturday in
Washington, announced he had
ordered the ground attack in
the "right and just" cause of
freeing Kuwait from Iraqi occu
pation. Bush adviser Brent
Scowcroft spoke of a further ob
jective Sunday: eliminating
Iraq's offensive military power
The long-expected ground
assault came just eight hours
after a deadline set by the De
sert Storm allies for Iraq to tie
gin a pullout from Kuwait
The Iraqis had dismissed that
ultimatum as "shameful." The
Bush administration at (lie
same time rejected a Soviet
sponsored plan for a slower
paced withdrawal
The offensive ( liniaved .t
month-old i risis lli.it liegan
with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
last Aug ~. intensified u ith the
tilliId11|i ot imirr 111.in .1 halt
million troops on eat h side,
•md exploded into w.irt.iri’ l.iu
17 h hi’ii tin’ inti Iraq t oalition
launched a devastating air i am
paign against targets in Kuwait
and Iraq
That air umbrella of fighter
bombers and helicopter gun
ships fanned out over the
smoke-shrouded halt let rout
Sunil.iv as battalion after battal
ion ot Marines and British tank
ers. French legionnaires and
l S Arms cavalrymen Saudi
Fgvptian and other Arab troops
rolled across the border in a
multi pronged att.n k that
stretched from the Persian (lull
coast far west to the vast sand
and gravel plains of the desert
The armored phalanxes head
ed north stirred up huge dust
storms over the desert floor
Offshore, the battleships I’NS
Wisconsin and GSS Missouri
opened tire with their mighlv
lli ini h guns on Iraqi i oastal
positions
Besides making a direr t as
sault on Kuwait ( atv strategists
apparently intend to sweep up
the Iraqis' western tlank with
IKS and British armored units,
to encircle Iraqi troops in Ku
wait and perhaps pin down re
serve forces the vaunted Re
publican Guard in southern
most Iraq
Reports on battle action were
sketchy, because the Desert
Storm command was issuing
only limited information, and
dispatches from reporters in
news pools at the front were
slow in reaching rear areas
Missiles hit Israel; Arabs react
II KI'SAI I M (API Iraq
fired two S< ud missiles .it the
Jewish state early Monday hut
imtli i rashed harmlessly m
the desert wastes of southern
Israel, a military off it ial said
I'he Si uds fired alKiut two
hours apart were the tHth
and 1‘ttli I,mm he<l at Israel
and the first sin< e the t ' S led
ground war against Iraq began
early Sunday ['lie army did
not say it I S made Patriot
missiles were fired to inter
i epl them
In earliei Si mi attar ks two
Israelis were killed .10
wounded and thousands ol
homes damaged
Aimy spokesman llrig (am
N.ihman Slnu reported on Is
raid radio th.il both missiles
were tired toward southern Is
rael lie said the fust hit in an
empty area hut gave terv im
mediate details ahni.it the sei
rind
lake the earlier missiles the
tvyo fired Monday apparently
earned i (inventionul r\ar
heads
l.ON’IX )N |AP) Prime
Minister John Major on Sun
day warned against runayvay
optimism for an easy vi< lory
over Iraq despite major allied
siiicesses on the first day of
the ground offensive
"I think it is right to fie eau
tious This is a very early
stage of the uumpaign. We
must wait and see what hap
pens over .1 longer period.’’
Major said outside Ins of tit ial
resident e .it 10 Downing St
"There nun he more ditti
t nit days ahead than those ive
have had vet thus far." tie
tidded
"It will not, I believe he a
long ( out)u t hut it may lie a
fierce one Major said
"There is no doubt in mv
mind that it is an atisoluteh
justifiahle i ontlii t and tli.it we
will vv 111 it
t fetense Sei retan Toni
King added tus own note of
i notion
''The tirst Iraqi fori es that
have been eiK ounterd are ar
guably their least i apable and
possibly some ot those with
the lowest morale he said
It would lie a mistake to as
slime that in the rest ot the
i uutpnigu the Iraqi lories will
show as little resistant e as the
allies has e ent ouutered
NICOSIA ( \prus (Al’|
Arabs sympathetic to Saddam
Hussein denounced the allied
ground offensive Sunday as a
premeditated effort to destroy
Iraq, but bai kers of the coali
lion said the Iraqi leader alone
was to blame
"It's the saddest day in the
world, with .ill those young
soldiers w ho are now going to
die because of one man.” said
All Mohammed a Chamber of
Commerce employee in Ki
yadh, Saudi Arabia
In Iordan, where pro-Sad
dam sentiment is widespread.
Parliament Speaker Mxlul
I -it if \r.ilnv.it i ailed on all
\i.11> .ind Muslim nations to
unite behind Iraq
\11 heliei ers in lr,i(| ami
everywhere will stand united
and w ill i hallenge the aggres
sion ot the allied evil pow
ers Arahiyat said
His i omments were deliv
ered alter Iraqi foreign Minis
ter Tnrirj A/.i/ sei rell\ visited
Iordan on his wav home from
Mosi ow. ai i ording to parlia
mentarv deputies
III Yemen thousands ol
people look to the streets ot
the i apital San a, to demon
strati* against the I lilted
States and its allies Some
pelted the I g\ ptiau •mil Bril
ish embassies with stones Se
i iirit\ i onions kept them from
attacking the I S and Saudi
\rabia embassies
1)1 11<( >1T | Al'| More than
Jilt) ilninting Iraqi Amem ans
blasted President Hush as a
'butcher" Sunday during a
man h to deunuui e the start ot
the ground war in the Persian
(lull
About Hit) people carrying
placards with sin h slogans as
"US (hit ol tin* Middle
Hast" marched along a main
street through the city's
(dialdean neighborhood
Chaldeans are a Christian mi
nority in Iraq
"Hush is a murderer'" pen
pie in the crowd shouted
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