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Thursday • Septembers, I99i
Conflicting reports in Iraq
Iraq puts up defense — against what is uncleai
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) —Anti- my ... sent his missiles aiming at “Iraqi willpower will not be de-
aircraft fire lighted the skies of several military positions and at feated by the tyrants, no matter I 03ClS
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Anti
aircraft fire lighted the skies of
Baghdad late Wednesday, hours
after the United States fired a
new round of cruise missiles
into southern Iraq and destroyed
an Iraqi radar site that was
preparing to attack an American
F-16 fighter jet.
Detonations reverberated
throughout the capital for 15
minutes, and air-raid sirens
blared as the anti-aircraft batter
ies fired.
Washington insisted there had
been no American, allied or other
military operations in the area
Wednesday evening, although an
Iraqi military statement accused
the United States of attacking
Baghdad directly.
It was not clear if the gunners
hit, or even had, specific targets, or
whether the barrage was a govern
ment attempt to make Baghdad’s
residents feel under siege.
“The malicious American ene
my ... sent his missiles aiming at
several military positions and at
heavily populated civilian sites,’
including Baghdad, the Iraqi
statement said. Iraq’s “sons con
fronted the missiles with efficien
cy and capability and downed a
high percentage of them.”
There was an explosion
Wednesday night in the streets
of the al-Hurriya residential area
near Baghdad’s old airport,
which left a hole six-feet wide
and three-feet deep.
However, the crater was too
small to have been caused by a
cruise missile. The exact cause of
the blast was not immediately
clear. One possibility would be
Iraqi anti-aircraft fire returning to
the ground.
The Iraqi military said one per
son was killed and 11 were injured.
Government-inspired anti-
American protests were reported
in Babil and another town south
of Baghdad.
SA-8 Gecko missile
An Iraqi air defense battery beamed its radar at an American warplane
Wednesday, prompting fire from an F-16 jet fighter. U.S. forces said they
had determined Iraq was preparing to fire a surface-to-air missile at the
F-16. A look at the radar and missile system:
Can launch four missiles
simultaneously
Carries eight
more inside
Tracks targets
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Source: Weapons of the Modern Soviet Ground Forces
“Iraqi willpower will not be de
feated by the tyrants, no matter
how far they go in their hateful
sins, malice and aggression,” said
an Iraqi military communique.
“The criminal Clinton is riding for
a fall into the abyss of vice.”
But President Clinton, in his
first public assessment of the
American attacks on Iraq’s air-de
fense system, called the operation
a success and said Saddam was
now “strategically worse off.”
The two U.S. missile strikes
were ordered in response to
Saddam’s weekend assault on
Kurdish rebels. Some 45,000 Iraqi
soldiers and 300 tanks captured
Irbil, the main city in the U.S.-de
clared Kurdish safe haven in
northern Iraq, before withdraw
ing this week.
In Ankara, Turkey, government
officials said Wednesday they
were considering sending troops
into northern Iraq to block
Turkish Kurdish rebels from tak
ing advantage of the latest tur
moil to attack Turkey.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security
.Council failed Wednesday to
agree on a common response to
the crisis.
Britain’s deputy U.N.
Ambassador Stephen Gomersall
said his delegation would revise
its draft resolution, the original of
which condemned Iraq for its in
cursion into the north and de
manded an immediate withdraw
al. It made no mention of the U.S.
missile attacks.
Iraq said this week’s U.S. at
tacks have killed eight people —
six on Tuesday and two
Wednesday. Iraq officials said 37
were wounded, including 11
Wednesday evening. But there
was no independent confirma
tion to any of the claims.
Iraq’s armed forces also
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B-52 bombers in the first®
two U.S. attacks on souther:
Iraq air defense installations.
Lt. Col. Floyd L. Carpenter
Class of '77, led a flight oftw
B-52s from the island of Gua®
in retaliation for Iraqi attach
against U.N.-protected Kurdh
safe zones in northern Iraq.
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the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
and served as commanderol
Squadron 10. He received]
bachelor’s degree in agricultur
al economics.
claimed Iraqi defenses shotdos
several missiles and a pilotless
connaissance plane. U.S. offici
denied the claim.
On Wednesday night, Saddc
visited air defense headquane
in Baghdad and met with sent:
officers, the official Iraqi Nei
Agency reported.
It said the Iraqi leader “gavel!
valuable instructions on the«
of defending and protectingi
land and sky of our dear countn
American, British and Freis
pilots took part in U.S. and a!
air patrols Wednesday over the
larged southern no-fly zone.s
Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston,
zone now extends within 30 mi
of southern Baghdad.
Iraq’s two no-fly zones we
created after the 1991 Persii
Gulf War to protect Kurds inti
north and Shiite Muslims inti
south from the wrath
Saddam’s military. After thee:
largement of the southern zot
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Gaza meetings provide hope, not result;
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP)
— With his arm twisted, Benjamin
Netanyahu on Wednesday shook the
hand of Yasser Arafat, a man he once
condemned as a murderer. Then the
Israeli hard-liner and the former
guerrilla talked peace.
The historic meeting at the Israel-
Gaza border — arranged after
months of U.S. pressure and
Palestinian threats — helped clear
the air of animosity that thickened
after Netanyahu’s Likud Party came
to power in May.
It also signaled to the
Palestinians that the other half of a
deeply divided Israel has finally ac
cepted them, and especially Arafat,
as peace partners.
But it yielded few concrete results.
At a news conference after the
hour-long meeting, Netanyahu said
he was prepared to negotiate a final
peace agreement and, in his most
generous moment, added he hoped
to “improve the prosperity and eco
nomic conditions of the Palestinian
population.”
Arafat said the meeting set the
stage for progress in restarting the
peace process, which has been
frozen since Israel’s election.
“The path was cleared for us to
negotiate on all levels and in all as
pects,” he said.
Netanyahu and Arafat arrived
separately Wednesday evening at
the Erez crossing between Israel
and Gaza.
Inside the meeting room, a grim
faced Netanyahu buttoned his jacket
and reached across a table to briefly
grasp the hand of Arafat, dressed in
his usual black-and-white checkered
headdress and olive military-style
outfit. Israeli TV stations played the
footage of the handshake over and
over, sometimes in slow motion.
Even as the leaders spoke, aides
bickered about the height of the
podiums set up for the news con
ference, with the Palestinians
charging Netanyahu’s was taller and
insisting it be changed.
The two men stood side-by-side
during the joint 15-minute news
conference — but they barely looked
at each other, and the usually pol
ished Netanyahu appeared stiff and
uncomfortable.
The meeting did not address key
outstanding issues, such as Israel’s
desire to change the terms of its
promised pullout from Hebron and
the Palestinians’ demand that
Israel ease the six-month closure of
their territories.
The sides had earlier agreed on a
vague statement declaring a liaison
committee would start meeting
Thursday to oversee implementation
of agreements already signed, in
cluding on Hebron.
Netanyahu drew harsh attacks
from hard-line Israeli politicians for
meeting with Arafat. They accused
him of breaking campaign promises
and buckling under U.S. pressure.
“It’s a grave mistake,” veteran Likud
lawmaker Uzi Landau said.
Former Premier Shimon Peres, ar
chitect of the Israel-PLO accords,
said the summit was an “enormous
moral victory” for his policies.
Outside the meeting site, Israeli
peace activists waved a sign saying,
“It’s about time.”
Israeli elder statesman Abba
Eban, said Netanyahu had no
choice but to honor existing agree
ments, terming the summit “a shot
gun wedding.”
Still, the encounter was the first
recognition of Arafat by an Israeli
premier from the Likud Party,
which long opposed Israel-PLO
peacemaking.
As late as February, Netanyahu had
said he would not
hold talks with
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Arafat. But as the
May elections ap
proached, he soft
ened his position,
saying he would
only meet Arafat if
it was vital for
Israel’s security.
Netanyahu
said later
Wednesday that
the meeting be
came possible af
ter he received as-
“The path was
cleared for us
to negotiate oi
all levels and
in all aspects.’
Yasser Arafat
PL0 Leader
surances the Palestinians would
cease what he considered violations
of the peace accords.
Netanyahu has argued that
Arafat did too little to fight Islamic
militants and operated government
offices and security services in
Jerusalem even though Israel-PLO
accords limit his jurisdiction to
parts of the West Bank and Gaza. In
recent weeks Arafat closed down
several Jerusalem offices.
The Palestinian leader, mean
while, is angry with Netanyahu’s de
cision to expand Jewish settlements
and by the delayed withdrawal from
Hebron, the last West Bank town
under occupation.
Singing Cadets
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TOBY BOENIG,
former Student Body President
Wednesday, September 11, 1996
7 p.m.
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