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 711 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 cuban Leader expresses outrage 715 Cloudy today8 Cloudy tonight 11 second cuss mail registration number 0286 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957055o classified 9562330 persian Gulf explodes in War d massive air attack hits Iraq a desert storm from pc Reuters the persian Gulf exploded in War last night As president Bush or dered american forces into Battle against iraqi president sad dam Hussein pledged to crush the the entire iraqi air Force was decimated by the Coden amed desert and much of Saddam elite Republican guard was Cable news network Saddam defies satan Bush from Reuters Pap Cyprus iraqi presi Dent Saddam Hussein said a Baghdad radio broadcast today that the Mother of All Battles has started and pledged to crush a attack against his addressing arabs and his armed Saddam said the iraqi people will defeat the infidels and their his remarks came nearly five hours after the air forces of the United saudi Arabia and began pounding Iraq and Iraq occupied Saddam said the Mother of All Battles began after the satan Bush committed his the confrontation with satan Bush and criminal zionism has the radio quoted him As the courageous iraqis who carry the Torch of islam will emerge Victo Saddam called Bush a hypocritical criminal and pledged to crush the satanic intentions of the White Baghdad which was off the air for the first few hours of the War which began Early broadcast a message on its Domestic service saying Victory was we will never a radio announcer we believe in the justness of the historic showdown against the invading forces Iraq is standing today on Strong and solid god willing is business 34 7 Ward 3 lotto winning numbers Bonus number 12 winning pow number 8 798234 quoting Pentagon there was no immediate confirmation of the military analysts did not re Gard the iraqi air Force As a major problem but the Republican guard was considered Saddam most pow Erful it was deployed in rear positions in Southern Iraq and Northen Kuwait behind the main defence can said the action might Lead to Saddam air Force decimated d no iraqi resistance offered canadians not involved in raid a virtually the entire iraqi air Force has been the network the liberation of Kuwait has Bush said in a statement read by his a photo a f15 fighter bomber gets a fast refuelling at a saudi arabian air base last Israel declares orders citizens to stay Home los Angeles times Jerusalem Israel declared a state of emergency but military officials reassured Citi Zens that the nation had not been at with Iraq under air assault by Israel radio told citizens to stay Home except for workers in vital to their Gas mask kits and to stay tuned to the for further in but one military official told Israel radio were completely out of the Israel is not involved and is not taking earlier prime minister Yitzhak Shamir warned citizens to expect an attack from it is very possible that Israel will be attacked despite the fact that it is not participating in this whole he said on National to Avert possible a total curfew on the million Palestin ians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip was in Many palestinians have expressed support for Iraq president Saddam Hussein during the months since the 2 invasion of in using More than peo ple have been killed in the three year old or against israeli Rule by palestinians in the occupied Shamir also warned palestinians in a radio broadcast last night in the event of Israel see Tel Page 4 in relish urn victim dams Stra 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 can i 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 Ray 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 the 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 the Nasir 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 deep hatred for Saddam thousands of kurd were killed in 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 in television reporters said bombs were falling on the Centre of the iraqi Bush acted after marshalling a potent International Alliance to Chal Lenge Iraq occupation of and More than a million forces were massed against one another in hundreds of desert in a televised address to the american said War against Iraq was necessary because the multinational coalition opposing the invasion of Kuwait had exhausted All reasonable efforts to reach a peaceful Resolution and the world could wait no Kuwait was its people Bush five months Saddam Hussein started this cruel War against the Battle has been joined will not see desert Page 11 vows Mada will figh 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 supporting 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 bombs and 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 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 War is not a she 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 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 Over the guarding Allied the new see pm Page 4 airstrike targets in Iraq nuclear or biological warfare facilities in conventional weapons plants air bases 5 Oil refineries Iran Ai Tamarah Hattal sources the new York 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