Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba In the Gulf praying for Gulf peace shame expressed at vigils As bombs Start to fall frontline Medicine Canadian Field Hospital May be near iraqi front Bush beats War Drums world could wait no president tells americans storm of support allies line up behind i Bari Leader expresses outrage Cloudy today 9 Cloudy tonight 11 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9434331 Home delivery classified 9562330 persian Gulf explodes in War Fra hit by Waves of air attacks Ade by the associated press and the Canadian press a Force pounded Iraq with Waves of air strikes today in a furious bid to drive iraqi president Saddam Hussein armies from the attacks effectively put Canada a part of the ant Iraq Force at Saddam apparently survived the night of fire that rained Down on his tanks Battle on saudi Border Amman Reuter two iraqi military bases close to the jordanian Border Are in flames today after being hit by warplanes target ing what Are believed to be missiles aimed at residents near the Border a kuwaiti ministry of information official said multinational forces have destroyed the Only two airbases in Iraq occupied Kuwait and opposing sides fought tank Battles today on the Kuwait saudi tanks shelled each other for at least two hours and the Battles were still going on at about local said the Saver Al who added that some iraqi troops have officials in mean would not say whether fight ing is going on at Border one resident of a san swept Border Point on the fron tier with said there was heavy bombardment of the h2 and h3 bases inside the iraqi Border and we could see the flames spiralling in the sky and hear echoes of the an official at the Only open land route to Jordan for any one fleeing the fighting in also confirmed the the israeli army said today led forces had bombed missiles that were on Sites near Iraq Western Border and were aimed at the jewish it gave no further expressed gratitude to the International Community and to All those involved in the operation to free kuwaiti information minister Badr Alya Koub said in a 28 26 Bridge 32 18 34 7 42 32 6 29 7 32 45 21 31 20 37 40 19 25 29 Ward 3 utto winning num Faw 12 winning number and As the smoke shrouded Day dawned in he remained the Mother of All Battles is under Way he proclaimed in a radio president Bush was equally we will not he told Ameri although Canadian fighter jets in the Gulf did not take part in the air Force decimated do iraqi resistance offered canadians not involved in raid prime minister Mulroney would be the first for canadians gave authorization for combat mis since Korea 41 years Lions if the combat and in soviet president a f15 fighter bomber gets a fast refuelling at a saudi arabian air base last Dawn finds israelis huddled in watching for missiles from the news services Jerusalem Dawn today found israelis huddled in their closed anxiously watching for mis Siles from Iraq or for violence from palestinians they took cautious Hope because the initial attack was not answered by a Salvo of missiles launched at As Iraq Saddam Hussein had often nothing has happened involving right now we Are not in an israeli army spokesman but authorities warned citizens to stay Home and prepare for a possible chemical it is too Early to say the danger has defence minister Moshe Arens said in a radio speech at 7 local time 11 As a Jerusalem usual morning Rush hour was replaced by an eerie quiet of empty Only those civilians in vital jobs were to report to soldiers walked the avenues and an occasional military vehicle rushed we have always had Faith in the american ability to crush the dicta said Yosef the govern ments chief he noted with satisfaction reports that the Western forces had attacked missile Sites in those missile Sites Are the Only ones considered close enough to launch an offensive against if those reports Are it May resolve a great Deal of prob lems from our Olmert see Israel Page 4 kurd mourn relish Saddam Straits family watches storm of War Roll Over lost Home by Randy Turner As the bombs begin to the iraqi immigrants huddle in a Winnipeg torn Between their hatred for sad dam Hussein and their fear for the innocent who will what say Saed Kakei there is no respect for the human those people who Are they Are not Saddam they Are like you and a kurd who fled Iraq almost two years is glued to the television a radio blares More information into the tiny along with two other iraqi sat stunned last night As details of the initial attack of Baghdad unfolded before their they were scared and it is a dark Day for he a very dark but not just for for All human in the Bakeis is in my my my three she is who lost relatives in Iraq Lightyear War with is wonder ing if she will soon lose even her now in his could be enlisted to fight the Allied she Kawa who fled Iraq via Turkey Only two months echoed Chiros concerns about the family he left i have at least six Brothers in he every family in four people could be although they expected a news of the outbreak of hostilities left them in i dont know How i arrived Here at Khe when i heard the i forget in confused right he in in worried about the people in i feel Osman arrived in Winnipeg last chased from his Home by a Man he Calls a like Many kurd inside and out Side Osman claims a hatred for Saddam thousands of kurd were killed if 1988 when the iraqi Leader unleashed chemical weapons in their Homeland in Northern was a lieutenant in the iraqi army in 1985 when he and his men were gassed with cyanide by their own while in the Kakei see driven Page 4 Mikhail Gorbachev blamed Saddam today for the outbreak of the hostilities were provoked by the refusal of the leadership of Iraq to carry out the demands of the world Community to pull its forces out of he told the country in a prerecorded television Broad the first strike came before Dawn and a second wave followed within a Western military official and saudi radio there was no immediate word on any Allied Ca but official Baghdad radio said antiaircraft units shot Down 14 invading War the iraqi report could not be con military officials said the targets were strategic but an iraqi communique said densely populated residential areas had been see sirens Page 11 Mulroney vows Canada will fight to drive Iraq out Ottawa up Canada will fight to drive Saddam Hussein out of prime minister Mulroney said last i profoundly regret that it has come to the grimaced prime minister told a hushed it is with no satisfaction that we take up arms because War is always a but the greater tragedy would have been for criminal aggression to go he said Canadian Jet fighters have been authorized to take part in sweeps Over Kuwait and Iraq if opposition leaders pledged their support in the Mulroney solemn announcement came just hours after president Bush phoned him to say american warplanes were winging towards targets in by the time Mulroney Rose to saudi arabian and kuwaiti planes had rained an missiles on strategic and military targets across no Canadian jets took Liberal Leader Jean while saying he regrets going to offered his support for Canadian men and women in the nip Leader Audrey Mclaughlin said her party also supports Canad an sailors and but the new democratic party will continue to speak out against the madness of whose party opposed the idea of using Force in the said the time for discord is it is the duty of All canadians to stand United in these Circum we can Only Hope this War will be a Short Chretien Mclaughlin expressed deep regret Over the Mulroney no satisfaction War is not a she Saidi it is absolute failure on the part of Canada has More than men and women in the plus two a Supply 24 cf18 fighter jets and a refuelling a Field Hospital has also been with two surgical teams promised to be in place by the end of the until the planes have flown defensive missions 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