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...rear-echelon camp of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was rocked by a grenade attack early Sunday morning, local time. TIME's Jim Lacey was 20 yards away from the tent when the attack occurred; he reports 10 people were injured, six of them critically after two grenades were thrown into a tent. Lacey says the grenades targeted the tent of one of the commanders of the 101st...
When you've been camped in the Kuwait desert for weeks, even dodging incoming SCUD missiles can become routine. Late Thursday morning air raid sirens blasted the 101st Airborne's Camp Pennsylvania. Seconds later every soldier in camp was wearing a chemical protective mask and scurrying to one of the concrete bunkers scattered around the camp. There they rested, many of them panting after the exertion of a full out sprint in chemical gear, until the all clear siren sounded some fifteen minutes later...
...Older brother Latif was an Iraqi army conscript sent to Kuwait in 1990. He, with the rest of his battalion, surrendered to U.S. forces at the first opportunity. "Our senior officer told us before the war not to fight and to surrender, and after sixteen hours of the war that's exactly what we did," he says, insisting the conscripts overlooking his town would be looking to do the same thing this time. He worries though that hardline intelligence and secret police officers have been put into the units to ensure the men stay and try to weather...
...that the longer he is able to survive and demonstrate that his forces are putting up resistance, the better his chances of averting the catastrophic regime-collapse the Americans are trying to achieve. Thus far he's lobbed a couple of missiles into the invasion's staging grounds in Kuwait, and has set fire to a handful of oil wells. A number of false alarms notwithstanding, the feared attacks with chemical and biological munitions have not thus far materialized, and Saddam's strategy may be to try and draw the coalition forces into a bloody battle for Baghdad...