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...officials insisted that the July 25 cutoff -- "Marker Day," not D- day, a State Department official helpfully explained -- was never intended to signal the immediate resumption of allied aerial strikes against Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste...
Biological agents, including anthrax and botulism toxin, remain the biggest threat. At the time of the allied aerial attacks last winter, pilots avoided targeting sites where biological weapons were believed to be stored, or hitting them with incendiary bombs. According to Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner, who ran the allied air campaign, a strike by a conventional bomb could have spread a deadly agent across the countryside, killing millions. As a result, Iraq's biological stocks are largely intact, and a U.S. attack poses the same risks that it did during the war. Unless Saddam discloses the whereabouts...
...stop people from weighing the practical and moral aspects of assassination as a weapon in wartime. And according to U.S. military attack plans obtained by TIME last week, it wasn't for lack of trying that American forces failed to kill Saddam during six weeks of unrelenting aerial bombardment. The targeting documents, including some dated Jan. 14, 1991, two days before the bombing began, list the "Baghdad Presidential Palace," the "Taji Presidential Retreat," a few miles north of Baghdad, and the "Abu Ghurayb Presidential Grounds," near the Baghdad airport. At least two of these sites were struck by U.S. aircraft...
...Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground missiles -- one of the few aerial bombardments on the European continent since World...
...gulf war was fought largely by air attacks against ground forces. Allied officers have tried to calculate the casualties from the numbers of tanks, other vehicles and artillery pieces destroyed. But aerial photography cannot disclose, for example, how many men a wrecked armored personnel carrier might have carried, let alone how many were killed or wounded or escaped unharmed...