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Voi. 74 No. 6

Tuesday, January 22, 1991

Arizona State University’s Morning Daily

Iraq plays POW card
Iraqi governm ent
u ses p riso n ers as
h u m a n w e a p o n s WAR UPDATE
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Baghdad
government, bombed into bunkers by the sky-high
technology of a superpower, turned people into weapons
Monday, sending American and other POWs out to target
areas as “human shields.’’
But one fallen Amercian pilot got lucky, being plucked
from the Iraqi desert by a daring Air Force rescue mission.
Under the cover of two A-10 jets, an Air Force search-andrescue helicopter picked up the navy A-6 Intruder pilot in an
eight-hour mission, Air Force officers said. At one point, an
A-10 fired on and destroyed an Iraqi truck driving toward the
stranded pilot, they said.
Allied leaders condemned Iraq’s treatment of captured
pilots as a “war crime” violating the Geneva Convention.
Asked whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would later
be held accountable, President Bush replied: “You can count
.on it.”
The International Red Cross expressed concern both about
Iraq’s handling of prisoners and about U.S. bombardment of
nuclear installations in Iraq.
On the fifth day of Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led
military campaign to oust Iraq from occupied Kuwait, allied
pilots kept up day-and-night assaults, and a U.S. commander,
said the air war would last at least another two weeks. Iraq
reported 14 raids late Sunday and early Monday.
“It was awesome and it was frightening,” British
television reporter Brent Sadler said after emerging from
Iraq and reaching Amman, Jordan.
Without water and electricity, life in Baghdad was
becoming primitive.
Baghdadis who have not fled their ancient riverside city
are underground in air raid shelters, Sadler said. People
emerge during the day to haul water from the Tigris River,
said Peter Arnett of CNN, apparently the last Western
correspondent in Baghdad.
Wildly varying and unsubstantiated claims were made on
Iraqi casualties.
An anti-Saddam Kurdish resistance group with an
established network in Iraq said the military suffered almost
4,000 casualties in the war’s first three days. He did not
distinguish between dead and wounded. An anti-Saddam
Iraqi religious leader even spoke of 70,000 military and 30,000
civilian casualties. Neither offered evidence.
The Iraqi government itself reported Sunday that 40
civilians and 31 soldiers had been killed.
The U.S- command asserts repeatedly that its “smart”
weapons are zeroing in on strategic targets and causing
minimal civilian damage. Reporters in Baghdad, whose
movements were generally limited, said they saw no heavy
damage to civilian areas.

Lt. Col. Cliff Acre* of Camp Pondlaton, Calif., la ahown
delivering a statement on Iraqi talevtaion. Iraq said Monday that
it is turning allied prisoners into ‘human shields' to guard
against what tt called U.S. attacks on civilian targets.

A recap o f events that occurred over the holiday weekend.

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But the Iraqis cited alleged attacks on civilian sites in
announcing they were sending more than 20 captured allied
airmen out to “civilian, economic, education and other
targets” in an attempt to ward off allied bombardments.
Iraq found support for its claims from an unexpected
source — its neighbor and former enemy Iran.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry statement said reports from
target areas showed the “U.S. attacks have exceeded
military goals. ... in some instances Iraqi cities and the
innocent people of Iraq have been attacked.”
Iraq similarly used Western civilian hostages as “human
shields” at strategic sites late last year after the onset of the
gulf crisis. Those hostages were eventually freed and left
Iraq.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said the
hostage-shield tactic would not affect U.S. strategy.
The United States lists 21 allied servicemen as missing in
the war, 12 of them Americans. The Iraqis displayed three
American and four allied POWs on Baghdad television on
Sunday, and two of the Americans, clearly under duress,
made anti-war statements. The videotape reached American
TV screens by Monday .
“America is angry,” Bush said Monday morning as he
returned from his weekend retreat at Camp David, Md.
In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross
said it was “making representations” about what it said
were Iraqi actions incompatible with the Third Geneva
Convention on treatment of prisoners of war, an agreement
to which all Persian Gulf combatant nations are signatories.
Red Cross officials said the convention prohibits using
prisoners for propaganda purposes and their presence to
render areas immune to attack.
The committee’s deputy legal chief, Francois Bugnon, also
expressed concern about a U.S. announcement that it had
damaged Iraqi nuclear facilities.
He noted that neither the United States nor Iraq are parties
to convention protocols specifying that “installations
containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dikes and

nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the
object of attack.”
Bugnon stressed he had no specific information on what
kind of installations had been attacked, but “it worries us
because of the humanitarian consequence that could result.”
Western strategists say Iraq’s nuclear-weapons potential
was targeted in the air war. It has at least two research
reactors, and other nuclear research sites.
An official of the International Atomic Energy Agency in
Vienna, A ustria, said agency specialists believe
bombardment of thé two reactors is unlikely to produce a
radiation hazard.
The anti-Saddam Kurdish group, the Kurdistan
Democratic Party, said Monday that allied bombing had
destroyed nuclear, biological and chemical facilities,
armament factories, at least six airbases, and four oil
refineries.
The U.S. military command has issued little specific
information on targets and results. In its daily briefing
T u rn to W ar, p a g e 2^

INSIDE:
/ U.S. pilot rescued from Iraqi desert

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^ Families see video of captured POWs Page 3
^ SCUD mission proves difficult for
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allied troops
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Tuesday, J an u a ry 22, 1991

U.S. pilot rescued from Iraqi desert
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In a
daring dash into enemy territory, a U;S. Air
Force rescue mission plucked a downed
Navy pilot from the Iraqi desert Monday
and flew him hack to safety, military
officials said.
An air force search-and-rescue helicopter
picked up the A-6 “Intruder” pilot shortly
after two A-10 ground support bombers
strafed an Iraqi army truck headed straight
toward the airman, air force officers said.
“We could not allow him (the truck) to be
there,” said Capt. Randy Goff, one of the
A-10 “Warthog” pilots. “We couldn’t take
the risk.”

Military officials did not release the
identity of the rescued flyer.
They said he ejected into a featureless
expanse of the desert after being hit by
ground fire while taking part in the bombing
of Iraq.
Goff, 26, from Jackson, Ohio, and
Capt. Paul Johnson, 32, of Dresden, Tenn.,
members of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing
from Myrtle Beach, S.C., spent over eight
hours in the air, refueling four times as they
located the Navy pilot around midday and
talked to him over the radio.
A plan was formed to bring in the rescue
helicopter.

“It is really exciting — the fact that you
think the guy is going to get rescued,” Goff
said, “My mind was just rushing.”
As the rescue helicopter neared the pre­
arranged pickup spot, a large Iraqi truck
drove into the area, apparently headed
straight for the rescue site.
. “Unfortunately, the truck was in the
wrong place at the wrong time,” Goff said.
The two A-lbs raked the vehicle with
30mm machine guns. The truck was left
smoking and in flames as the helicopter
arrived. The downed pilot broke from cover
and ran to safety. It was the only time the

two A-10 flyers saw him.
“The adrenalin was pumping for two
hours after thé pickup,” Johnson said. “It’s
still pumping now.”
When he returned to base there was a
telephone message from the Navy piloté
Jo h n so n s a id . “ I t ’s p r e tty m uch
unprintable, but yes, he’s real pleased,” he
said
Further details on the mission — such as
how long the pilot was on the ground, the
amount of time the rescuers spent in enemy
territory, and the location of the rescue —
were not immediately available.

Iraq fires at Saudi Arabia,
tw o m issiles land in desert
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — At least
one Iraqi SCLJD missile was destroyed in the
sky over Riyadh early Tuesday by a U S.
Patriot anti-missile missile, witnesses said,
and two SCUDs landed in unpopulated
stretches of desert, according to diplomatic
sources.
There were no reported injuries.
Witnesses in Riyadh said that at least one
Patriot missile was fired shortly after air
raid sirens howled across the city at 3:45
a.m. (7:45 p.m. EST Monday.) It was hot
immediately ^bssible to reach military
officials for confirmation.
Deborah Wang, a National Public Radio
reporter, said she reached the roof of the
11-story Hyatt Regency hotel just in time to
see a white streak go up from the ground,
followed by a white flash in the sky and “a
yellow flash in the sky and two quick
explosions” directly above city.
Hotel guests grabbed their gas masks and
rushed into a basement shelter.
The hotel is near the Saudi Defense
Ministry building.
Witnesses on the rooftop did not report

seeing any other missile interceptions.
Diplomatic sources, meanwhile, said that
two missiles fell into the desert shortly after
4 a.m. (8 p.m. EST Monday.)
The sources, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said they did not know whether
the Patriot anti-missile system had been
used to try to down the missiles.
One SCUD missile landed and exploded 60
miles north of Riyadh; the other fell and
blew up 120 miles east of the capital, they
said, reporting no damage.
The attack followed an early morning
alert in Riyadh. After the missiles fell, the
all-clear signal was sounded.
On Monday night, one SCUD fell into the
Persian Gulf, off the coast of a major Saudi
Arabian port, but no damage was reported.
Iraq fired 10 SCUD missiles into Saudi
Arabia late Sunday and early Monday. U.S.
Patriot air defense missiles destroyed nine
and one fell harmlessly into the Persian
Gulf, according to U.S. officials.
The attacks, the most concentrated by
Iraq so far, were aimed at Riyadh and
Dhahran in the Eastern province.

Saudis at Kuwaiti front
pull back as war starts
IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - Saudi units
assigned to the front line near Kuwait to
dem onstrate Arab resolve moved to
positions behind U.S. forces the first night of
the war, angering some American and
British soldiers.
Saudi officials acknowledge the pullback
but insist it was, in the words of an official
military source, “a planned withdrawal.”
American military sources said the U.S.
command knew about it ahead of time, but
they did not know how far in advance. The
U.S. command has refused official
comment.
A Saudi official quoted anonymously by
the Saudi Press Agency said the withdrawal
was planned well ahead of hostilities and
designed to protect the Saudi infantry unit
from Iraqi artillery and rocket fire during

War_______

the air war. Military regulations do not
allow the size of the unit to be revealed.
A U.S. Marine officer in the area said the
Saudis pulled back just before allied forces,
including Saudi pilots, began a bombing
campaign against Iraqi positions in Iraq
and southern Kuwait, including some within
50 miles of the Saudi-Kuwait border.
“We’re essentially the front now,” said
the Marine officer, who would not let his
name be used.
If the Saudi troops “had come by here”
when they were pulling back, said a British
officer in the border area, “I’d have turned
my bloody guns on them and sent them
back.”
Saudi troops also are stationed to the
west, in the Hafr al Batin area about 60
miles south of the Kuwait-Iraq border.

C o n tin u e d fro m p ag e :1.

Monday at Riyadh headquarters, the command said more
than 8,000 air sorties had been flown thus far, and nine U.S.
and five allied aircraft have been lost to hostile fire.
But Air Force Maj. Gen. Burton Moore said “we are
nowhere near” achieving a prime objective of the campaign
— to wreck Iraq’s ability to launch Scud missiles into Israel
and Saudi Arabia.
The biggest barrage yet of Scuds rained down on Saudi
Arabia Sunday night and early Monday. All were intercepted
and destroyed by U.S. Patriot defense missiles — except for
one that fell harmlessly into the gulf.
Meanwhile, out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy in
the Red Sea, task force commander Rear Adm. Riley Mixson
told reporters the air war will last at least two more weeks
before a decisive ground offensive could begin against Iraq’s
dug-in troops in Kuwait and southern Iraq.
The allies have not let up in the pounding of those Iraqi
forces, particularly the Republican Guards, the elite core of
the defense of Kuwait.
Refugees crossing into Jordan from Iraq said Monday they
saw heavy bombardment of Guard positions in the southern

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Associated Prass photo

Patriot launch
This undated handout photograph shows the launching of a Patriot missile, which is
produced by the Raytheon Company based in Lexington, Mass. The missiles are now on
station in Israel and Saudi Arabia to protect against incoming SCUD missiles launched by
Iraq.

Another Saudi official said, also
anonymously, that the withdrawal “was
according to the plan.” He said “civilians
had already been evacuated from the area
and this was a plan to evacuate the area.”
U.S. Marines remain, however, and have
inched north, harassed every day by
artillery and rocket fire from fraqi forces
just across the Kuwaiti border. Several
Marines have been reported slightly
wounded.

Two American airmen captured by Iraq
were the pilot and observer in a Marine
scout plane that was directing return fire by
the Marines just south of the frontier.
“Our guys are up there getting shot at,
jumping into NBC (chemical protective)
suits three, four times a day,” the Marine
officer said.
The British officer said the Saudis left
small items of equipment and some
personal items behind.

Iraqi port city of Basra. The official news agency in Iran, had said they would probably not be ready for a ground
across the Shatt al-Arab waterway from Basra, said three offensive until February at the earliest. The U.S. force in
Operation Desert Storm continues to grow — the Pentagon
waves of allied bombers struck Basra on Sunday afternoon.
One military official in Washington cautioned, however, said Monday it numbers 472,000.
Peace efforts continued. The Iranian foreign minister, Ali
that the Republican Guards — an estimated 100,000 to 150,000
Akbar
Velayati, said Iran, India, Yugoslavia and Algeria
men — “are not sitting ducks.” They are probably well
dispersed in deep, camouflaged bunkers, with their armored were prime backers of a renewed peace initiative by the nonaligned movement of Third World nations.
vehicles protected.
In New York, India has begun discussions in the Security
More than 300,000 American, British and other allied
armored, infantry and airborne units have been taking up Council about a possible 48-to-72-hour cease-fire. But a U.S.
position on Saudi Arabia’s northern desert frontier for an diplomat rejected the idea, saying privately, “When Iraq
expected onslaught against the half-million Iraqi troops in obeys the council resolutions and pulls out of Kuwait, then the
Security Council can meet on the Persian Gulf again.”
Kuwait and Iraq.
Iraqi radio said Saddam rejected a peace proposal by
Bush ordered the attack on Iraq last Thursday, one day
after the expiration of a U.N. Security Council deadline for an Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who sent a letter
Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, after which the council saying he would intercede with Bush to suspend hostilities if
Saddam agreed to announce plans to withdraw from Kuwait.
authorized military action.
The radio quoted Saddam as telling Gorbachev that Bush
Tbe Iraqis invaded the small, oil-rich emirate Aug. 2 after
the collapse of negotiations over Iraqi grievances relating to ' “has committed aggression” and “therefore your letter
should have been addressed to him and not to Saddam
territory, oil and Iraqi debts to Kuwait.
Even before the war broke put, American commanders Hussein and his aggrieved people.”

Tuesday, Jan u ary 22, 1991

Fam ilies see video
o f captured airm en
By Thé Associated Press
The agony for the families of U.S.
servicem en Iraq captured deepened
Monday as Iraq said it would disperse the
prisoners to places that could be military
targets.
Mary Hunter, wife of Chief Warrant
Officer Guy Hunter, learned Friday he was
missing. “I felt like somebody stuck a
dagger into my heart,” she said.
Then Sunday, Iraq claimed he was a
prisoner of war. Until the military confirms,
the report, she said, “ I can’t get my hopes
up real high, even though I have,”
And Monday, more: Iraq said it had more
than 20 U.S. and allied airmen and would
scatter them among ‘‘civilian, economic,
education and other targets.”
“We all feel very scared, but with this
news of him being a POW, we all feel
somewhat relieved to know that he is alive,”
Mrs. Hunter said in a statement released
through Camp Pendleton in Southern
California. “ I will hope and pray each
minute and day for his release to us.
“I’ve been a Marine wife for 14 years and
l am very proud of my husband and all that
he has done,” she said. “This is his choice in
life to be the best Marine he can be and 1
support him all the way.”
Hunter, 46, and Lt. Col. Clifford Acree, 39,
from Camp Pendleton, and Navy Lt. Jeffrey
N. Zaun, 28, from the USS Saratoga, went
down in combat with Iraqi forces last week.
Iraq on Sunday broadcast televised
interviews with them and four other men it

said it had captured. Audio tape was heard
in the United States the same day;
videotape was played Monday. Several of
the airmen had swollen faces, two had
bruises, one had cuts on his forehead and
eyes. It was unclear how the injuries
occurred.
Zaun’s father, Calvin, was asked in
Cherry Hill, N.J., if he had seen his son.
“Yes, but because he’s a prisoner, the
government has asked us not to say
anything to the papers,” he said before
hanging up.
The Pentagon didn’t comment on the
interviews, but the U.S. State Department
sent a strong protest to Iraq, noting that
mistreatment of prisoners is a war crime.
There has been much speculation about
the how the captured servicemen are being
treated. Several prisoners of war during'
Vietnam say the tapes indicate the men
were coerced into making comments such
as this one by Zaun: “I think our leaders and
our people have wrongly attacked the
peaceful people of Iraq.”
U.S. Rep. Pete Peterson, held nearly
seven years by the Vietnamese, said that if
the captives were not being tortured; “it’s
probably the first time in warfare that it
hasn’t been done.”
“I think already we can assume these
men are being mistreated,” said Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., who was held prisoner in
Vietnam for
years.
Acree’s wife, Cindy, and the couple’s
11-year-old daughter were away from their

British Flight Lt. John Peters appears on Iraqi television in a photograph that became available in
Paris Monday. Peters "t»alleged to be a POW captured by the Iraqi army.

Oceanside, Calif., home SundSyin^neffort
to avoid reporters. She has not comniested
on the Iraqi videotape.
“He has the support of many family and
friends and we are all praying for him,” she
said earlier. “Wherever he is, he knows that
I love him more than anything in this world
and I always will.”

Hunter and Acree were flying a Marine
OV-10 Bronco, a turboprop observation
plane that supports other combat aircraft,
ban they were shot down in southern
Kuwbit.
“I don’t want to think about him being
tortured. I don’t Want him to die a slow
death.” Mrs. Hunter said- -

Stocks down, oil prices up
w orldw ide as w ar continues

Associated Press photo

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange keep an eye on their monitors during
trading Monday morning. Stock prices moved downward worldwide and oil prices advanced as
concern increased over the war in the Persian Gulf lasting longer than expected.

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S to c k s d e c lin e d a n d oil p ric e s
strengthened around the World Monday on
sober reassessments about the possible
duration of tihe Persian Gulf War.
Much of the euphoria over stunning allied
successes in the opening salvos against Iraq
had diffused, and investors had second
thoughts about how brief and painless the
war actually Will be.
As the week began, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein raised the stakes further
by launching more SCUD missiles at Saudi
Arabia and announcing American POWs
would be used as human shields.
Activity was relatively thin on world
financial markets and some observers said
it indicated investors are still jittery.
But Ralph Acampora, an analyst with
Prudential-Bache Sécurités Inc. in New
York, interpreted light trading as a sign
“investors are not panicking out. Some are
taking profits, but there’s no change of
heart.”
Some investment strategists said trading
also was slower because of the federal
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Although
the stock market was open, many banks
were closed.
On Wall Street, stock prices dropped at
the opening bell and held at depressed
levels. But the Dow Jones average of 30
industrial issues was lifted from its lows in
the final half hour of trading to end the day
at 2,629.21, down 17.57 points.
“There is a shakeout of euphoria following
last week’s successful air attacks by the
U.S.,” said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with
Ja n n e y M ontgom ery Scott In c., a
Philadelphia investm ent firm. “ Now
investors are digging in ... assessing their
¡positions.”
Although losses were widespread,
technology and defense-related stocks got a
big boost from what the military has called
the impressive performance of high-tech
weaponry, used for the first time in the Gulf
war.

Stocks also fell in major foreign markets.
Tokyo’s Nikkei average of 225 selected
issues lost about 456 points, or nearly 2
percent, to finish at the 23,352 level. In
London, the F in an cial Times-Stock
Exchange 100-share index was down almost
19 points at 2,084.
Crude oil prices, which fell below $20-abarrel to a six-month low on Friday,
climbed higher worldwide in what analysts
said was a predictable rebound.
“This is just correcting what was
overdone last week,’’.said James Fiedler, a
v ice p re s id e n t w ith E .D .F . & Man
International Inc., in reference to last
week’s $8 drop in crude prices.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange,
crude oil for next-month delivery gained
$2.05 to settle at $21.30 a barrel. That’s still
only about half the value of oil reached in
mid-October, when it traded above $40 a
barrel.
Volume was light, which “goes to show
you how uncertain we are about the
progress of war,” said Nauman Barakat, an
analyst with Merrill Lynch Energy Futures
in New York. He said trading is still “very
sensitive to headline news.”
Indeed, the price of crude spiked up
temporarily over a report that Saudi Arabia
was under air-raid alert.
In overseas energy markets, the March
contract for North Sea Brent Blend, an
important grade of crude oil traded in
Europe, stood at $19.25 a barrel in London,
up $1.05 from Friday. In late Tokyo trading,
Brent reached a high of $19.20 per barrel
before falling back to $18.75.
In other financial markets, interest rates
rose and bond prices declined, though
trading of U.S. Treasuries was thin because
markets closed early in observance of the
King holiday.
Gold prices advanced. The metal was up
more than $2 an ounce in London and more
than $4 an ounce in New York.
The dollar fell worldwide in thin trading.

Unit’s spirits
'real good’
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A member of an Indiana-based
U. S. Air Force Reserve unit serving in Operation Desert
Storm said Monday the spirits of people in the unit are “real
good.”
Some members of the unit are working 12-hour shifts at an
air base and spend the rest of their time sleeping, playing
cards and watching Cable News Network, Staff Sgt. Joe
Brown said from Saudi Arabia. Brown, 29, an aircraft
mechanic with the 434th Air Refueling Wing out of Grissom
Air Force Base, is from Wheeling, Ind.
“We need beer,” he said. U. S. servicemen are forbidden
from drinking alcohol there because it is not allowed under
Islam.
When asked how they were reacting to the initial stages of
the war against Iraq, Brown said, “Real good. It was more or
less, ‘It’s about time, so let’s do it and get it done.’”
“I think for the most part they expect it to be fairly short,”
he said.
Of the television accounts of anti-war protests at home,
Brown said, the unit members “knew there was a chance
something like this could happen when they signed up. No one
was forced into the military by the draft, so no one should be
complaining.”
However, the members of the 434th feel they áre receiving
good support from thë American public as a whole, he said.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A Muslim and Islamic support
group here is helping young Arab-Americans deal with racial
taunts from classmates and a sense of confusion resulting
from the war in the Persian Gulf.
Several young people of Arab ancestry met Sunday at the
Colorado Muslim Society and Islamic Center in Aurora.
Many said they have endured sarcasm and stereotypical
comments about their religion, heritage and homeland.

American troops from the 3rd Battalion, 32nd ArmoretfRegiment of the 1st Cavalry, based at Ft. Hood, Taxas, listen to a radio news
broadcast about the GuH war around a M1A1 Abrams tank hi the Saudi desert. The 1st Cavalry maintains positions near the Kuwaiti
border.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Alongside the babies and children
being baptized at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral was
21-year-old Roger Mendoza, a machine gunner in the U SMarine Corps Reserves.
As a rule, adult baptisms at the church are performed only
at Easter.

Tariq, a 10-year-old whose parents are Palestinian, said
classmates have taunted him.
“ It’s hard to defend yourself when there’s so many against
you,” he said.

But Mendoza’s circumstances were extraordinary
“danger of death,” said the Rev, Michael J. Sis,
Mendoza’s unit had been told to report for active duty at 6
a.m. Monday.

Sulttana, a 16-year-old Denver high school student, said she
often feels outnumbered among American classmates.
Sulttana is a Muslim whose father is a native of Afghanistan.
“They call me a Communist, a terrorist, ” she said. “They
say all Arabs are dirty.”
Some youths said the w ar is forcing them to choose
between their ancestral faith and their adopted country.
“I don’t agree with everything that Saddam Hussein is
doing,” 13-year-old Jihan said. “But I don’t agree with all
that Bush is doing, either. I’m a Muslim. I’m in the middle.”

“We’ve been called up. We haven’t been told officially that
we’re going to Saudi Arabia, but it’s pretty obvious,”
Mendoza said.
Mendoza, who left college last year to join the reserves,
just completed his training last month.
He said he hadn’t been particularly active in the Catholic
Church for some time, but during the rigors of basic training
found comfort in it.
When he found out last week that he was being called up,
Mendoza decided to be baptized Sunday .

“I just wanted to make sure, in case anything happens. I
just wanted to make sure I made my peace with God,” he
said.
NEW YORK (AP) — In response to Iraq’s $32,000 bounty
for captured allied pilots, a group on Monday offered 10 times
that to anyone who saves a downed pilot and returns him to
allied forces.
“This is a very good morale booster, and maybe there will
be an organized effort to save them,” said Leonid Roytman,
who hastily organized Save American and Allied Pilots after
hearing of the Iraqi offer.
Roytman, a professor of electrical engineering at City
College, said he called two dozen colleagues, friends and
neighbors on the affluent north shore of New York’s Long
Island on Saturday night and got pledges totaling $1 million
to back up the reward offer.
Saddam Hussein’s government has announced rewards
ranging up to $32,000 for anyone who captures downed allied
fliers.
Speaking of Saddam, Roytman said: “If this idiot offers
$32,000, we’ll offer 10 times that. If money talks, let’s do it.”

SCUDs prim e target for allied forces, but mission is difficult
IN CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA (AP) The day’s mission for the 4th Tactical
Fighter Wing Provisional was stated
simply: “Kill SCUDs. Come Home!”
The message is repeated across the
Persian Gulf, from dusty air bases to
carrier ready rooms, The Iraqi missile, the
terror weapon of the Iran-Iraq war, has
become the prime target for allied pilots.
“We continue to aggressively pursue

(Saddam’s) fixed and mobile SCUD
c a p a b ility ,’’ Lt. Gen. Thom as Kelly,
director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said Monday. “We are pursuing that
objective as aggressively as is reasonably
possible.”
The redoubled efforts to destroy the
Soviet-made missiles came after Sunday
night’s mini-blitz on the Saudi cities of
Dhahran and Riyadh. Ten missiles were

A U.S Navy F-14 lifts off from the dock of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy above a row of
A-7 Corsairs on Its way to a bombing raid against Iraq late last week. Carrier based planes have
been used extensively in such bombing raids.

fired from Iraq or Kuwait. Nine were
destroyed by U S. Patriot air defense
missiles. A tenth fell harmlessly into the
gulf.
Additional pressure to get the mobile
missiles comes from Israel, hit last week by
SCUDs. The attacks raised fears the Jewish
state would retaliate and thereby rupture
the allied coalition against Iraq.
But the hunt for the SCUDs is a difficult
one, complicated by bad weather and the
elusive tactics of the Iraqi military.
“SCUDs are a difficult target — it’s a
needle in a haystack. They’re not very big.
They’re camouflaged,’’ said Col. Hal
Hornburg, commander of the 4th Tactical
Fighter Wing Provisional.
And they move. Once a missile leaves the
rail of its mobile launcher, the launcher is
on the move to a new hiding place.
“ It represents a difficult targeting
dilemma, but one that we are on big time
and one that we will stay oh big time,” Kelly
said.
Kelly also noted that the Iraqis have been
setting up vehicles to look like the mobile
launchers.
“They do use decoys and they use them
well,” Kelly said.
G e n . H. N o r m a n S c h w a r z k o p f ,
commander of U.S. forces in the gulf, said
he believes allied pilots have managed to
“neutralize” all of Iraq’s estimated 30 fixed
SCUD launchers.
He estimated the Iraqis have another
20-plus mobile launchers that fire the 30-foot
missiles, some with an estimated range of
up to 600 miles.
Overcast skies over Iraq have turned

waves of fighter-bombers back home with
bombs still under their wings.
“You do that one or two days and it’s not
too bad, but you do that day in and day out—
you know, we’re starting to mentally and
physically feel the tension because we don’t
like to bring these bombs back,” said
Maj. Tim Rush, an F-16A fighter pilot with
the South Carolina Air National Guard.
To counter the weather, the allied
command has ordered F-15E all-weather
fighter-bombers to search Iraq both day and
night. The Urgency was highlighted by the
fact the F-15Es made their takeoffs in the
fog.
s
“The capabilities of the aircraft to radarmap tiie SCUD are good and that gives us an
enhanced opportunity to go out and find ‘em
and kill'em ,” Hornburg said.
Rush said the F-15E and other allied
aircraft equipped for night and bad weather
bombing missions including the F -lll and
the Tornado “are doing good work.”
British pilots had some success over the
weekend, pinpointing two key missile sites
with low-flying reconnaissance missions.
“We are delighted that our missions have
been so successful,” said Brian Robinson, a
Toriiado pilot. “The SCUDs have to be found
and that’s it.” ■
The urgency of the hunt is shared by pilots
and their ground crews.
Col. Ray Davies, chief maintenance
officer for the 4th Tactical Wing, watched
F-15Es fly off Sunday night on SCUD
searching missions.
“We had a beautiful takeoff — 24 planes
all going after SCUDs,” he said.