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It was a perfect example of the kind of precise, high-technology air war the allies have conducted against Iraq. It was also a tragedy: the bunker was filled with Iraqi civilians who had taken refuge there from nighttime raids on the capital. But U.S. officials insisted that there had...
< If a land offensive seems certain, however, its timing and intensity are not. Much guessing focuses on late February or early March. French President Francois Mitterrand said flatly last week that the ground attack would begin "in the next few days, if not later, in any case sometime this month...
The generals talk less in terms of time than of conditions. The primary one is that a land offensive should be launched only when bombing has softened the Iraqi defenses to the maximum extent possible. There is agreement that, as one Congressman emerging from the Cheney-Powell briefing said, "we...
In an airborne briefing en route to Saudi Arabia, however, Powell cautioned against the idea that the "ground campaign, as the night follows the day, means huge casualties." Saddam may be planning a Verdun in the sand, but ! allied commanders insist they are not going to oblige him by relying...
Statistically, the Iraqis took a beating. By Friday afternoon the Saudis and Qataris had captured 500 Iraqis in and around Khafji, according to a U.S. briefing officer in Riyadh. Allied officials said 30 Iraqis were killed and another 37 were wounded. Saudi casualties were not much lighter: 18 dead, 29...