Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba January in the Gulf iraqi envoy calms turks by Clyde Haberman times news service Turkey As United states War planes continued to use turkish territory for their air strikes against iraqi Iraq assured edgy turks yesterday that it would not retaliate with attacks of its Why should we the iraqi ambassador to Ankara told a leading turkish Turkey is our the am Rafai said in an interview with the daily paper Mil we Haven done anything against there is no such thing in our leaders who comes from the Home town of president Saddam gave interviews to two major newspapers Here to drive that Point he was appalled to learn that turks fear missile attacks in thus Muslim Turkey says it has kept its own forces and planes out of the War with its Arab neighbor and insists that its policy will not change unless Iraq strikes but it has effectively opened a second front in the air War by allow ing american fighters and bombers to launch scores of sorties against Northern Iraq from the in Ciurlik air base in Southern opposition leaders and Many press commentators argue that this amounts to a turkish first strike against and they accuse the and in particular presi Dent Turgut of dragging the country into an unwanted War and an Uncertain future with a danger Ous a photo a Marine flyer leans against the Wing of his bomb Laden harrier attack Jet on a base in saudi their concerns were dismissed yesterday by prime minister Yildirim who said the govern ment expected that the iraqis would not attack because they do not have it would not be he told opposition lawmakers in Parlia the War has unsettled Ordinary and by the tens of thousands residents have fled Bor Der areas for safer havens to the West and even in relatively Remote cities like Ankara some peo ple have stepped up civil defence just in at least six bombing missions Are believed to have been launched from in Ciurlik Over the last three but their specific targets and their rates of Success Are not journalists watching the planes leave from outside the base said that 36 took off in one Mission Early yesterday but that Only 35 about three hours it was not Clear if the plane had been lost or landed at another turkish per haps in the country dropped bomb local officials in the turkish Bor Der town of silo i reported yester Day that a bomb was dropped Acci Dently on a nearby Field but that it had caused no in the turkish High command said that the bomb had fallen from a turkish plane that was on a training mis even though it has authorized the american air the turkish government has refused to acknowledge formally that they Are actually Tak ing apparently in the Hope of keeping tensions with Iraq to a mini there Are also reports that the american pilots had been instructed to Fly first Over Syria to preserve the polite fiction that these strikes come not from Turkey from syrian Iraq is out of to go along with this obvious we believe the governments Baghdad ambassador said in the in we believe the govern ment will think Well and will not Side the for getting embroiled in a even to the extent that it has and especially with a Middle East Ern runs counter to its traditional caution in foreign of Ozal argues that the country must be seen As playing an Active role to help topple but he has been unable to persuade the political opposition and Many who have protested his policies with uncommon Fervour for a country where consensus usually prevails on an International matter of such Over Riding on opposition members walked out of parliament complain ing that lawmakers had not been Given any information about the american this shows that either the government does not know or it is concealing it from parliament and therefore the said the main opposition the social democratic populist in either it is the interests of the patriots bolster israeli restraint Public appreciate Tel Aviv stoicism in braving scud preserving desert storm by Doug struck the Baltimore Sun Tel Aviv israels restraint in the face of two iraqi attacks was bolstered by some Welcome sleep and two antimissile Patriot batteries set up some of the fever to retaliate for the iraqi missile attacks on Tel Aviv cooled with the arrival of the Patriot Deputy Secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger called on prime minister Yitzhak Shamir yesterday to make sure the fever was israeli officials denied there was a Deal to refrain from attacking Iraq in Exchange for the Patriot but after his meeting with Eagle Shamir struck a moderate tone insisting that Israel had not Given up its right to defend he fighting Doest mean that it has to be done without without and without assessing the conditions under which we Are work the enemy is not standing at our Between us and the enemy stands the american president Bush and Secretary of state James Baker have spoken with Shamir almost As much in last three Days As in two four Telephone conversations have established a level of Mutual Trust that did not exist before last israeli and american officials for two Bush complaint about the israelis has been that they too often took actions in on the West Bank and in the peace process without considering american interests or always giving Washington prior for two Shamir has been depicted As fearing that Bush was a pragmatic Texas oilman who really had no empathy with Israel and under would Sacri fice israels interests to win the support of Arab the most important lesson of the three Days of Israel american con american officials was to show each Side that it could count on the other More than it Israel american relations have also improved on the popular through said Ste Ven an expert on Ameri can israeli relations at the univer sity of California at los millions of americans heard the sirens Wail in Tel they watched israelis put on their Gas they watched them go into sealed rooms and just about except the thud of the i think Many americans will have a lot More sympathy for some Patriot targets scud missiles the Patriot Mobile missile system is designed to defend ground forces against air iraqi scud missiles streaked into saudi Arabia sunday but they were destroyed by Patriot i radar identifies and tracks i incoming scud missile Patriot length 209 inches diameter 16 inches Range Over 50 Miles Patriot missile launcher can carry four guided missiles How the system works scud o Patriot launched and locks onto target q radar guides Patriot to incoming scud ranges of iraqi and israeli missiles approximate estimated measured from country Borders Syria Jerusalem Al ussom variant of scud missile 600km Jericho i in missile arabian sea source Janes weapons a research of israels Security problems after put that together with the restraint the israelis have shown in not retaliating and you have to say that Israel has not looked so Good in american eyes since the late Shavirs caution differed sharply from the harsh vows of reprisal made by members of his govern ment after the second iraqi attack saturday there were no missile alarms sat urday night for residents who had spent the previous two nights yank ing on Gas masks and running into sealed rooms at the frequent Wail of air raid although civil defence continued to warn people to remain in their Many shops and cafes in Tel Aviv opened Resi dents poured out of their Homes for some shopping or a change of Sce Ive been cooped up in my House for three in going said Celila strolling on Tel a ivs main Dizengoff the kids Are pretty said a walking with his eight year old son and 12yearold Daugh both looked we needed to breath the to go see people walking around and see that people Are its the first time in our lives that we have been a he Magness source scientific american Magazine Mobile scud missiles continue to elude High tech wizardry by de Timms Dallas morning news some of spy satellites Over Iraq supposedly could read the numbers off iraqi president Saddam Hussein License experts say spy technology can intercept virtually every radio transmission by the iraqi Azacs radar planes track hundreds of airborne targets at once and even can detect moving reconnaissance planes Fly Over Iraq at but technology and weaponry failed to find and destroy All of Iraq Mobile surface surface scud Saddam wild card Iraq has launched two missile attacks against Israel in Hopes of stirring up an Ara israeli several factors could explain that even space age technology has its Clouds make detection from the air gathering human intelligence using spies is Tough in a repressive and spy technology May collect More information than analysts can handle in a timely defence Secretary Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials have described the scuds As a top priority Mili tary experts do not Rule out future scud our surveillance methods Are obviously not up to finding Mobile better knowledge of us than were aware in order to in order to hide he has to be somewhat familiar with the equipment that trying to find said a retired Navy and even with the Superior said Richard intelligence there Are director of Texas University Centre for strategic enormously difficult to track any kind of Mobile a Small system like the scud can be driven into a deep with camouflage nets spread Over finding it presents a considerable such Thomas can be fitted with Metal strips that reflect radar Waves and even with an imaging you cant Tell that it is a Mobile analysts be Lieve scuds May be hidden in build under Bridges and even in James an associate director with the Centre for defence information in suggested that the elusiveness of Mobile scuds indicates that Saddam May have a said James coauthor of dirty Little secrets military information youre not supposed to you except in very limited circumstances or in a very limited have round the clock he although space based sensors typically can locate a rocket As soon As its engine Thomas its a expecting a bit much to find those things and attack them with the much better approach is to organize your detection and defensive systems so when the rocket engine is lit you get a fix on it right he then you Alert the defensive batteries that its on its Way and you shoot the sucker Gulf Roundup foreigners in Iraq ordered to Register from the news services Cyprus Iraq ordered All foreigners living in the country to Register their place of residence within 72 Baghdad radio said the monitored by the said the order was issued in a state ment by the iraqi directorate of the statement did not say Why the new orders were issued and it is not Clear How Many foreigners still live in soviets asked to go Moscow the soviet embassy in Baghdad has Cut its staff to 43 while All other soviet residents have been asked to leave soviet foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin said a staff of including the Ambas is the minimum level to keep the embassy Chur Kin told a news the remaining staff were leaving yester Day with the approval of the he journalist missing Amman a British journalist last seen in the iraqi capital of Baghdad on the Day War erupted in the persian Gulf appeared to be a British embassy official in Jordan said Bruce a freelance re Porter for the London Standard and other was last seen at the iraqi capitals Abrashid hotel Early thursday when allies began bombing the embassy official in first medal awarded with the saudi Arabia a Navy medic injured by iraqi artillery fire is to receive the first purple the Decora Tion for troops wounded in a of operation desert a Marine corps general said Clerence a 19yearold medical corpsman from is recovering at a military Hospital from a shrapnel wound in the right said Marine Thomas who is assigned to the marines to provide medical Aid in was wounded thursday night while on patrol with marines near the Kuwait two marines were also slightly Israel censors to Jerusalem israeli military personnel have been stationed around the clock at television network bureaus in the country to enforce an official said Yossi director of the government ordered move after foreign television cover age of iraqi missile attacks on Tel Aviv on Friday and saturday used Rrt aps to pinpoint locations that were network personnel said the Cen Sor failed to make the regulations Clear can reporter staying Washington Cable news network correspondent Peter Arnett was americas last remaining link with Iraq but the conditions under which he was allowed to stay raised questions about whether he had been made the voice of Bagh a Veteran War correspond could file Only when iraqi officials let him and could say Only what they diplomacy carries on Washington they May be at but the United states and Iraq Are maintaining diplomatic relations Here at least for the reason even hostile nations occasionally need to communicate with each at this it remains helpful to have a a state department official said the last Exchange occurred saturday Lloyds makes history London for the first sunday in its 303 Lloyds of London insurance Market was open yester Day As the Gulf War causes rates to excluding the reporters who flocked to Lloyds building on Lime Street to record a bit of there were about 150 including about 100 working about the same number put in a busier Day the first Satur Day Lloyds has been open since after Hurricane Betsy devastated portions of the United ;