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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 29,1991

Iraq may use unconventional weapons

Burton proposes nuclear weapons to end Gulf War

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) President Bush should use tactical nuclear weapons to end the Gulf war if Saddam Hussein does not surrender because of conventional bombing attacks, Rep. Dan Burton says. Burton’s recommendation drew criticism Monday from Rep. Frank McCloskey, who said nuclear weapons would only add to U.S. troubles in the Gulf region. “DAN’S STATEMENT makes me glad that George Bush and Colin Powell are in charge,” said McCloskey, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. “The long-range consequences of nuclear weapons on Arabs would result in more devastating problems than we have already.” Both Bush and Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have ruled out the use of nuclear weapons. But Burton, an Indiana Republican and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed low-yield nuclear weapons could be used against military targets without endangering civilians. “IRAQ’S HEAVY armored divisions are hunkered down under steel and concrete reinforcements, and aerial bombing with conventional weapons probably won’t knock them out,” Burton said in a news release.

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REP. DAN BURTON Advocates nuclear war

Burton noted Iraqi troops are protected from a ground assault by rows of trenches, razor wire, land mines and probably chemical mines. He said using tactical nuclear weapons against Iraq’s elite Republican Guard would save thousands of U.S. soldiers. “SADDAM HUSSEIN is a brutal tyrant who docs not respect the bounds of civilized behavior,” Burton said. “He has murdered and tortured thousands of people. He has terrorized Israel with Scud missiles, and he has used chemical weapons against his own people.

U.S. is taking Iran at its word that fleeing planes are out of the war

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials say they are taking Iran at its word that it will hold more than 80 Iraqi airplanes that have sought refuge there and will not allow them to attack allied forces. A Pentagon official said the Iraqi planes include top-line fighters and represent “the flower of their air force.” Officials said the planes were clearly being moved to avoid destruction by allied bombers, but they puzzled over whether the pilots were deserting or following orders.

Saddam’s first interview of the war NEW YORK (AP) wartime interview, Saddam Hussein claimed his modified Scud missiles can carry nuclear, chemical or biological warheads and suggested he may use those warheads to counter allied weaponry. The Iraqi president also suggested in Monday’s interview with CNN’s Peter Arnett that Iran has provided refuge to Iraqi aircraft as a friendly gesture, the correspondent said. ALLIED OFFICIALS have said as many as 100 Iraqi planes have flown to Iran, which has promised to impound them until the war’s end. Arnett quoted Saddam as saying “that Iraq and Iran are neighboring Muslim countries, and regardless of the circumstances of the past, they both see the current confrontation here as a battle between faith and the infidel.” The reporter said he asked if the planes would be used again, and Saddam responded, “Each case in its own circumstance.” THE 90-MINUTE interview was initiated by Saddam and Arnett relayed the Iraqi president’s remarks in a satellite telephone hookup with CNN from Baghdad. Video of the interview was not immediately available because Iraq’s satellite transmitter was hit early in the war. But CNN said it hoped to show tape of the interview sometime today, using a portable transmitter the network was allowed to bring into Baghdad on

“IT COULD BE A plan to save those aircraft for another time, to include during this conflict or after this conflict,” Ll Gen. Thomas Kelly, director of operations for the joint military staff, said Monday. Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 said the United States had received assurances through diplomatic channels “that the aircraft would be kept in Iran” and that Iran was maintaining “complete neutrality.” President Bush, meantime, made final preparations for his State of the Union address tonight, the first such wartime address to Congress since the Vietnam war nearly two decades ago. BUSH, WHO A day earlier told religious leaders that this was “a just war,” planned to devote major portions of his speech to providing a status report on the fighting. “The content is dominated by the discussion of the Persian Gulf conflict,” White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said. “The speech ... will reflect the president’s thinking on the conflict, what it means for the country, what it means for the economy and our domestic agenda. Extraordinary security precautions were in place for the 9 p.m. EST nationally broadcast ad-

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SADDAM HUSSEIN He knows he will win

Monday. CNN is the only U.S. news organization that has been allowed to maintain a foreign correspondent in the Iraqi capital. Arnett’s report was subject to Iraqi censorship. ARNETT SAID Saddam discussed a wide range of subjects: • He regretted having released his foreign hostages in December. He said “hypocritical Western politicans” had persuaded him last fall that if he let the hostages go it would keep peace. “If we had kept these 5,000 hostages here, would Bush have bombed Baghdad?” Saddam said. • He claimed that Iraqi students were being unfairly interned in the West, and thus he was justified in using allied prisoners of war as human shields in strategic locations. • He did not deny that Iraq had unleashed a massive oil spill in the Persian Gulf. The United States, he

dress. Police planned to close all streets within a four-block radius of the Capitol as a precaution against terrorist attack. U.S. OFFICIALS said the allied forces had scored substantial gains as the Persian Gulf war reached the two-week point Besides the movement of Iraqi planes to Iran, the Pentagon said its bombers appeared to have succeeded in cutting the flow of oil from Kuwaiti oil fields to an offshore oil terminal where Iraq was deliberately dumping the thick, black crude into the Persian Gulf. The White House declined comment on initial reports of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s interview with CNN correspondent Peter Arnett. Arnett quoted Saddam as saying Iraq has the capability to fire nuclear, chemical and biological warheads with its missiles. “IRAQ WILL USE weapons that equate the weapons used against us,” Saddam was quoted as saying. Arnett said he took Saddam to mean that if his losses become too great he would turn to unconventional weapons. Arnett said Saddam also suggested that Iran was accepting Iraqi aircraft as a friendly gesture and that, as Muslim countries, both see the war as “between faith and the

said, had first used oil as a weapon by attacking Iraqi tankers and oil installations. If Iraq used oil for self-defense including in the sea it would be justified, Arnett quoted Saddam as saying. • After nearly two weeks of unrelenting air attacks, Saddam remained upbeat: “All the air superiority that you see now that has come upon us has failed.” Did he have any doubts that Iraq will win the war? “Not even one in a million,” he was quoted as saying. According to Arnett, Saddam “said missiles fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia, which he proudly called al-Hussein missies ... had nuclear, chemical and biological capability.” “I ASKED, ‘would you use chemical weapons in a land war in Kuwait?’ Arnett said. “He responded, ‘We will use the weapons that will be equitable to the weapons used against us by our enemies.’” Arnett said he had asked Saddam whether he would refrain from using chemical weapons if the United States and its allies refrained from doing so. “I don’t mean that,” Arnett quoted Saddam as saying. “Iraq will use weapons that equate the weapons used against us.” THE IRAQIS ARE known to have chemical and biological warfare capabilities, but Western analysts have questioned whether they could equip their Scud missiles with such weapons. As for nuclear weapons, some in the West believed Iraq was just a year or two from developing atomic warheads. But the U.S. military says its recent bombing has obliterated Iraq’s nuclear network.

infidel.” Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war during the 1980 s. U.S. officials have contended they did not need to destroy Iraq’s sheltered planes because they have incapacitated most runways and Iraqi fighters have been ineffective against allied pilots. THE IRAQI JETS potentially could mount attacks on U.S. and allied naval forces in the gulf from their new Iranian bases. But Kelly said U.S. officials were unconcerned about that threat because highflying AWACS radar planes would be able to detect such an attack in time for allied aircraft to counter the planes from aircraft carriers. Fitzwater said contacts with the Iranian government about the planes have taken place through third parties, including Switzerland. “The Swiss made an intervention on our behalf last week and have been assured, once again, that Iran intends to be neutral in this matter, intends to keep the planes until the war is over,” the spokesman said. FITZWATER SAID the administration was estimating the cost of the war at S6O billion for three months. He said the United States expects allies to pay $45 billion of that, leaving sls billion for American taxpayers to absorb.

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Middle East Roundup

By The Associated Press Here is a look at the latest developments in the Persian Gulf war. Around the Gulf: • The oil slick in the Persian Gulf was several days away from the Saudi city of Jubail, site of the world’s largest water desalination plant and one of many such facilities in the spill’s path. Environmentalists say the 460 million gallons of crude poured into the waterway will bring certain ecological catastrophe. • The U.S. Central Command said Monday that bombing by allied forces appears to have stopped the flow of oil from the supertanker terminal in Kuwait. But officials conceded that they couldn’t be sure. U.S. F-11l fighter bombers blew up the pipeline valves pinpointed as the source of the slick. • The Pentagon reported the allies carried out more than 2,500 sorties Monday. The U.S. Central Command said a U.S. Marine AV-8 Harrier jet was lost in combat, the first allied loss in more than two days.

• Iraq claimed Monday that some captured pilots have been injured in air raids by allied warplanes. It also charged that U.S. warplanes, not its own forces, had caused the oil spill in the Persian Gulf. • Iraq sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar in which it said 320 civilians have been killed in Desert Storm air raids. Refugees fleeing Iraq said allied warplanes bombed civilian convoys on the desert highway west from Baghdad to Jordan. • Patriot missiles Monday knocked out an incoming Iraqi Scud on the outskirts of the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh. Parts of a Scud rocket landed on Arab villages in the occupied West Bank of Israel. No deaths or injuries were reported. • The Pentagon said the American military deployment in Operation Desert Storm totals more than 492,000 troops. Washington: • Fitzwater said the administration estimated the cost of the war at S6O billion for three months. He said the United States expects allies to pay $45 billion of that, leaving sls billion for American taxpayers to absorb. The administration will not ask for a tax increase to cover the cost, Fitzwater said. • The Pentagon acknowleged for the first time on Monday that seven American airmen who had been listed as missing in action are now considered prisoners of war. All seven had appeared in Iraqi television broadcasts shortly after their aircraft were shot down over Iraqi territory. Financial: • The Nikkei Stock Average closed at 23,460.12, down 109.32 points, or 0.46 percent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday. North Sea Brent for March delivery was being traded at $19.80 a barrel in mid-afternoon, little changed from closing levels in New York.