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...reports and international team of experts on strategy and tactics. This one was against an enemy no less redoubtable than Saddam's army: an oil slick estimated at 80 km (50 miles) long and 19 km (12 miles) wide that is breaking into pieces as it spreads down the Persian Gulf, its consistency like that of melted chocolate...
...danger is vastly greater, though, for the billions of creatures that inhabit the Persian Gulf. The gulf waters, shores and islands are dotted with coral reefs, mangrove swamps and beds of sea grass and algae, brimming with birds, sea turtles, fish and marine mammals. This complex ecosystem, already pushed to the limits of survival by years of pollution, is now threatened with total collapse by the inexorable spread of the smothering, toxic...
...planes and pilots to the airfields of a neutral country, leaving his troops and citizens that much more defenseless. He parades visibly mistreated POWs before TV cameras, arousing the disgust and wrath of the powers arrayed against him. He releases hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, threatening not just his neighbors but also his own people with ecological disaster...
...view, the alternative was worse: the militant Islamic fundamentalism, fanned by the Ayatullah Khomeini, would arouse Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, some 55% of the population, leading not only to Saddam's overthrow but also to the domination of his Arab state by the descendants of the ancient Persian enemy. Would this really have happened? Saddam did not wait for an answer...
...Saudi border at several points between Khafji and Umm Hujul, 50 miles to the west. On Wednesday night they occupied Khafji, six miles south of the border; it had been abandoned on Jan. 17 by residents fleeing out of the range of Iraqi artillery. Saudis and troops from the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Qatar, supported by Marine air attacks and artillery fire, retook the town on Thursday, but only after house-to-house fighting that raged from 2:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sniper fire could still be heard on Friday. Marine planes and artillery repulsed the attacks...