Word: basra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pictures were among the most stunning to come out of the gulf war: mile after mile of burned, smashed, shattered vehicles of every description -- tanks, armored cars, trucks, autos, even stolen Kuwaiti fire trucks -- littering the highway from Kuwait City to Basra. To some Americans, the pictures were also sickening. Weren't the Iraqis in those vehicles pulling out ^ of Kuwait, exactly as the U.S. wanted them to? Did the American planes that wreaked this carnage really have to keep up the bloody assaults on an already beaten...
Some allied units had reached the Euphrates as early as Monday; by Wednesday morning they were established in enough force to prevent further crossings. British units cut the main Kuwait City-Basra highway early in the day; ! American Marines had reached it farther to the south the previous afternoon. The gate had slammed shut on Saddam's forces in Kuwait. Their escape routes were broken. Encirclement was complete...
...remote and bloodless. But last week Saddam Hussein discovered the power of images. Photographers were allowed access to the tragedy that resulted when the allies bombed a building in Baghdad where hundreds had taken refuge. Those pictures -- and the ones on these pages from elsewhere in Baghdad and from Basra -- put the human impact of the war into focus. But they cannot tell the whole story. They do not show Saddam's destruction of Kuwait, where no photographers can go. And they do not show the large areas of Baghdad (like the mosque at left) that have remained untouched throughout...
...Pentagon confirmed that Iraq moved two captured U.S. soldiers, including the only female American P.O.W. to Basra, a city under intense allied attack, because it is Iraq's military headquarters for forces in Kuwait...
...their water supply. According to U.S. intelligence reports, the Iraqis have only about four days' worth of water on hand for drinking and for cooling tanks and vehicles. The supply flows from an already damaged desalinization plant in Kuwait City and via pipelines and tanker trucks from Baghdad and Basra. So far, allied bombers have concentrated on higher-priority targets within Iraq, including mobile Scud missile launchers. But coalition leaders will soon focus on the supply lines, and remain confident that they can thirst out the Iraqis. Predicts one White House official: "They'll come out with their hands...