Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba War Gulf mapping the action special two Page feature pinpoints persian Gulf War Ilan Toban ready for War airman boots Christopher of Russell says Hes nervous 711 High tech Battleground cruise missile enters iraqi Bunker through the Side door 712 second class Mil Heg Graton number 0286 saturday free press january or free press vol 119 no 19 saturday Only Home delivery weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg Oti Tome Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home of very 9570550 Clon Ted 9562330 Allied attacks pounding the hell out of that country by Mark Fineman los Angeles times Jordan after nearly 48 relent less hours of surgical cruise missile strikes and bombing Baghdad resembles a ghost its residents having fled or in its sprawling residential districts largely intact but according to More than a dozen journalists who fled the embattled iraqi capital and arrived in Jordan by land the regime of president Saddam Hussein still appears very much in despite More than a dozen direct hits on key government installations throughout the the presidents main Palace was Des several of the journalists in a cruise missile attack that Saddam himself the soviet still in said he met with the iraqi Leader in his command Bunker there pounding the hell out of that said Alan a lbs news correspondent who arrived in Amman after a a photo harrowing trip by car from Baghdad to the jordanian the virtually All of them television newsmen and the Only Western eyewitnesses to leave Baghdad since the War also confirmed that Saddam de Fence ministry has been demolished and that the satellite dishes on his main communications Tower have been at least two military airfields in the City were also taken out of the eyewitness More than Likely the last Independent and uncensored descriptions of the scene inside Baghdad for Days to went beyond picturing a City see i think Page 4 israelis hold fire Tomahawk cruise missile launch lights up night sky and deck of uss Wisconsin Early travellers recount human toll of War by Mark Heinrich Reuters Jordan a captured Pilot bundled into a commandeered iraqi taxi the body of a Little girl in a bombed Baghdad Street a fleeing journalist charged us for a ride to travellers reaching Jordan from Iraq yesterday brought tales of the persian Gulf wars human an iraqi taxi Driver arriving with two passengers at the jordanian Border crossing of Ruwe shed said his cab had been commandeered in route by iraqi military police to take a captured american air Force Pilot to an unknown they had a Pilot who looked very sad at his situation he was not said the describing the airman As Blond and police told him the Pilot was one of two Crew members in a fighter bomber shot Down in the first 24 hours of the persian Gulf the airmans colleague was Mustafa a spoke of civilians who died Iri relentless air bombardment of the iraqi capital of i saw the body of a Young girl lying in a Street she could not have been More than see it Page 4 count adds to despair for Raf pilots tearful airmen experience dread after second Tornado bomber lost retaliation a certainty from Preu Tersip Israel held its fire yesterday and let the desert storm with one minute air search out iraqi launchers that could terrorize the jewish state with More missile air raid sirens sounded again last night in but they were reported to be false Israel appeared to Edge away from imme Diate reprisals for an iraqi missile barrage on its cities Early defence minister Moshe Arens said Israel will respond but he say and said the current situation is different from previous israeli in which we have acted and foreign minister David Levy said Israel has not decided whether to strike we have publicly stated and also told the americans when they visited the country a few Days ago the administration knows that if we Are we will respond and we have been Arens you of not expect me to the the multinational Force unleashed More punishing air attacks against Iraq this Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from battleships in the Northern persian a reporter aboard a Royal Navy ship continual Waves of fighter bombers and ground attack aircraft left from car see angry Page 5 desert storm Allied losses As of Friday United states four planes a Navy fighter attack Jet two Navy a6 intruders and an air Force f15e strike Crews two Tornado fighter Crews Italy Tornado fighter bomber failed to return from night Crew i Kuwait an a4 skyhawk was lost the Pilot is believed to be Safe with the kuwaiti Hernandez a photo Michael Speicher was first Pilot reported killed in Bahrain a they count them going they count them coming for a Squadron of Royal air Force pilots based in the persian the count yesterday added up to despair when a second Tornado bomber was Raf pilots broke Down in tears on their return to Muharram air base from a strike against iraqi air at the moment i am going through the full Range of said a tearful flight Mark from in from elation right Down to dread and fear of whatever your you still Fly the he we went As four Crew now we Are three tomorrow there might be two or on the squadrons second an engine on one of the two person Tornado bombers caught fire after being hit and the Pilot and navigator were seen to eject and there remained Hope they were Early another Jet crashed on re turn from a the Fate of the Crew was the Tornado were two of eight coalition planes that have been shot Down so far by also lost were four american one italian plane and one kuwaiti you feel guilty that you have survived and they said Squadron Leader Pablo from in Mason cried As he tried to explain How he dealt with flying repeated missions knowing that each could be his you have got to control your he you feel terribly there is a constant awareness that in a few seconds time you might not masons Squadron has one of the toughest jobs of the air Effort in the persian their jets carry two jp233 bombs suited for hitting the jets race Over heavily fortified air Fields at at a level below 30 metres before dropping their the pilots rarely see the craters left by the which also carry antipersonnel mines to prevent a rapid repair ground personnel Roll 900kilogram bomb past f15 Index Ann under books Bridge business careers classified comics crossword deaths tutorials 47 jew Rowe 38 Legate 49 i fat Tefs b 7 i 2s fair Muntel 7 t 6 Faith Horoscope Jumble 86 swoosh ing scud brings horror by Nick Martin you could hear the iraqi missile As it Swo shed overhead and blew up within window rattling distance of his Northend Tel Aviv Menashe Broder mumbled yes because its Tough doing a Telephone interview while wearing a Gas the missile had come in Early morning yester Day Early thursday night in Winnipeg and the toughest part had been deciding where to the basement bomb shelter was the safest for a conventional warhead said during mid evening Tel Aviv time but the hermetically sealed master bedroom and adjoin ing bathroom could Best withstand chemical his one daughter living at and his Mother inlaw had chosen the sealed with tape and where they sweated it out from 2 to 6 while wearing Gas we have a Supply of water some things to said the Montreal whose brother Gabe is Bani brith regional director in most the sealed room contained a which announced an Al Clear during yesterdays allowing Broder to remove his Gas Over in former Manitoba Deputy health minister Ted Tulchinsky had just removed his mask after what was feared to be a second wave of iraqi missiles turned out to be a false we take the Alert Tulchinsky people were lulled a bit by the news the first Day of the american assault on that everything missiles was wiped those reports turned out to be Tulchinsky didst expect Jerusalem to be at the iraqi missiles Are he see aim Page 4 ;