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Allies gain air superiority; Iraqis ‘ineffective’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s
top military official expressed satisfaction
with the results of the First week of the Per
sian Gulf war Wednesday, but said Iraq is
“an enemy that is ingenious” whose air
force may yet “choose to come out and chal
lenge us.”
For now, said Gen. Colin Powell, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Iraqi air
power has been “totally ineffective,” leaving
the United States and its allies with signifi
cant air superiority in the opening phase of
the Gulf war.
In a Pentagon briefing that marked the
one-week mark of the war to liberate Ku
wait from Iraq, Powell said more than
10,000 allied sorties had destroyed 41 Iraqi
aircraft, either in air-to-air combat or on
the ground. The Iraqis have an estimated
700 aircraft.
Defense Secretary Richard Cheney pre
ceded Powell to the lecturn and told report
ers that “there may well be surprises anead
for us,” including possible Iraqi air strikes,
terrorist attacks and additional missile at
tacks.
Cheney acknowledged that Iraq’s mobile
Scud missile launchers were proving more
difficult than expected.
Powell said the United States has lost at
most one plane in air-to-air combat. Total
U.S. losses in the first week amount to 10,
he said.
Cheney cautioned against expectations
of a quick end to the war, saying, “A mili
tary operation of this intensity and com
plexity cannot be scored every evening like
a college track meet or basketball game,” he
said.
Powell and Cheney both urged the pub
lic, and the media, to understand that it was
not possible to know how badly the furious
air campaign had damaged Iraq’s military
capability.
Powell said the one-week mark was time
to “take stock and dampen the oscillations
between euphoria and distress.” He spoke
about the mood around Washington, per
haps around the country, when the early air
successes did not lead to a one-week victory.
He said Marine forces are assembled off
shore, adding, “We are really just starting
in earnest” to force Iraq from Kuwait. He
described an enemy that is well dug in, with
complex communications and a sophisti
cated supply system.
“Our strategy for dealing with this army
is very simple: first we’re going to cut it off,
then we’re going to kill it.” The Iraqi army
is “sitting there dug in, waiting to be at
tacked, and attacked it will be,” he said.
He said allied forces were “Assembling a
fairly sizeable ground force that can finish
the job if necessary.”
Armed with charts, maps and graphs,
Powell said allied forces have achieved air
superiority in the war, but said “there still
will be losses” in the days ahead. Even so, he
said, air attacks can begin to concentrate in
southern Iraq and around Kuwait, where
Iraq has massed tens of thousands of
troops.
Yet, he added, “We’re dealing with an
enemy that is resourceful, an enemy that
knows how to work around problems."
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Progress pleases Bush;
Iraq remains strong
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said Wednesday night
the war against Saddam Hussein is “right on schedule” and will be
unrelenting. “There can be no pause now that Saddam has forced
the world into war,” Bush said.
The president said allied bombing attacks had knocked out many
Iraqi airfields, given the United States air superiority and “put Sad
dam out of the nuclear bomb-building business for a long time to
come.”
Bush, speaking to an audience of retired military officers, said,
“I am pleased to report that Operation Desert Storm is right on
schedule.”
Military officials warned, however, that Iraq’s military machine
remains strong despite intense allied attacks. “We’re dealing with an
enemy that is resourceful, an enemy that knows how to work around
problems, an enemy that is ingenious,” said Gen. Colin Powell, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
But Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Saddam “cannot change
the basic course” of the war. “He will be defeated.”
“There can be no doubt: Operation Desert Storm is working.
There can be no pause now that Saddam has forced the world into
war. We will stay tne course,” he said.
Bush added, “No one should weep for this tyrant when he is
brought to justice. No one, anywhere in the world.”
Lawmakers began to question how much the war will cost, and
how to pay for it. House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said there
were no plans now to raise taxes but that “it would be a mistake to
put this entire cost on the next generation. ... It’s going to be a great
cost, we know that. Very, very large cost.”
House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-IH., said that if a tax in
crease became necessary, it probably would be a temporary income
tax surcharge. However, he added, “Taxes are never temporary.
They’re usually permanent.”
Defensive missiles continue success rate
Riyadh sustain Scud attacks
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DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP)
— A barrage of Patriot missiles was
fired from a major air base here on
Wednesday, and witnesses saw at
least one explosion to the north, in
dicating an incoming Iraqi Scud mis
sile had been destroyed.
Air raid sirens also sounded in the
Saudi capital, Riyadh, 275 miles to
the southwest, and witnesses said it
appeared two Patriot missiles had
been fired.
The firings came just as Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen.
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Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, were finishing a
news conference at the Pentagon,
briefing reporters on the progress of
the week-old Gulf war.
Witnesses in Riyadh said it ap
peared that a Patriot missile hit
something over a hotel where many
reporters are staying. They saw what
appeared to be another Patriot fired,
but apparently it did not strike any
thing.
In Dhahran, one of the explosions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration, declaring satis
faction with the first week of war,
promised defeat for Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein but cautioned Wednesday
there may be “surprises ahead for
us.”
President Bush denounced Sad
dam as “one misguided man” dark
ening the future of mankind.
Military leaders said allied bomb
ing had destroyed Iraq’s two nuclear
research reactors and seriously dam
aged factories believed to produce
chemical and biological weapons.
Saddam “doesn’t know how badly
he’s been hit,” Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney said, pointing to dis
ruption of Iraq’s communication sys
tems.
Military officials warned, how
ever, that Iraq’s military machine re
mains strong despite intense allied
attacks.
“We’re dealing with an enemy
that is resourceful, an enemy that
knows how to work around prob
lems, an enemy that is ingenious,”
said Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Bush prepared to make a speech
on the war before a military audi-
shook Dhahran International Hotel,
just off the allied air base from
which the Patriots were fired.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing two
Patriots intercept an incoming mis
sile at a low altitude not far from the
end of a base runway.
After a flash in the air at the mo
ment of interception, the witnesses
said a large object fell to the ground
and exploded, sending smoke and
dust into the air and tremors
throughout the base area.
ence Wednesday night.
Vice President Dan Quayle visited
military bases in three states, consol
ing families of U.S. airmen held in
Iraq.
He pledged that the United States
“will hold Saddam Hussein and his
henchmen personally accountable”
for mistreatment of POWs.
The House, by a vote of 418-0,
condemned Iraq for parading POWs
before cameras to make obviously
coerced statements.
At a Pentagon briefing, Powell
and Cheney faced a barrage of ques
tions about the extent of damage in
flicted on Iraq by unrelenting bomb
ing attacks.
Powell said allied forces have
seized air superiority and now in
tend to focus attacks on Iraqi ground
forces entrenched in and around
Kuwait. He said the Iraqi army is
“sitting there dug in, waiting to be
attacked and attacked it will be.
“Our strategy for dealing with this
army is very simple: First we’re
going to cut it off, then we’re going
to kill it.”
Cheney said that Saddam “cannot
change the basic course” of the war.
“He will be defeated.”
Emergency vehicles were seen sec
onds later speeding off the base and
toward the area where the explosion
occurred.
Of all the attacks on Dhahran, this
was the first one to cause any kind of
a ground tremor near the base.
On Tuesday night, debris from a
Patriot-Scud interception rained
down on a compound housing
Americans who work at the Saudi-
owned Aramco oil company.
Cheney said, “There may well be
surprises ahead for us,” including
possible Iraqi air strikes, terrorist at
tacks and additional missile firings.
White House press secretary Mar
lin Fitzwater saia, “This is not going
to be wrapped up in a week. We’re
not going to have this done in time
for weekend talks shows and the eve
ning news. This is going to go on. It’s
S >ing to be day after day just like
is.
The administration promised
“full consideration” to a request
from Israel for an additional $13 bil
lion in economic aid over five years.
The administration rejected a
broadcast report from Baghdad that
allied attacks had destroyed a baby
milk factory in Iraq
. The plant actually was used to
produce biological weapons, Fitzwa
ter said.
“Any reports coming out of Bagh
dad are, in effect, coming from the
Iraqi government,” Fitzwater said.
Iraq has “used a lot of disguises in
a lot of different ways,” Fitzwater
said. The plant in question “has been
heavily guarded and has barbed
wire,” he said.
U.S. leaders warn of surprises
Saddam Hussein called ‘one misguided man’
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