.6 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 4, 1996 CRISIS IN THE GULF r EA CTION tnued from Page £ "The Pentagon has been wrong efore. There could be a lot more peo- le killed than we are being told. Where you have (military) bases there ave to be people living there who ork there;" said Amer Zahar, an LSA enior and officer of the Arab American Student Association. The students said that Iraqi citizens ill suffer as they have in the past as a esult of the economical embargo gainst that country. "Since the sanctions began, the con- itions there have been very inhumane d it looks like it can only get worse," bbasi said. University political science Prof. ach Levey said it is Saddam Hussein ho has allowed his people to suffer. "(The citizens) are going to pay. ey continue to pay for Saddam's dventures," Levey said. Students pointed out an inconsisten- y between the United States' reaction o Hussein's crimes and responses to uman rights violations in other, gions such as Bosnia and Lebanon. "They've found a nice target in addam Hussein," Zahar said. Levey said Saddam's violations are ot only a matter of his vendetta jgainst Kurds. "A lot has to do with controlling nat- ral resources in those areas, such as ii. It bothers him that year after year is subject to these restrictions," _evey said. Students said Clinton's actions prob- bly had a lot to do with the upcoming lection. "This is an election boost for linton. It's become political, but we re talking about people's lives," Zahar aid. Levey said the timing may have been more a factor for Saddam. "He may have thought it was a good time to test the U.S. I think an American president at any time would have to respond," Levey said. Many said the United States is wrong to involve itself in the conflicts of Iraq, a country students say is not a large military threat. "It's not the U.S.'s business to go into another country's affairs," LSA senior Sami Abbasi said. Levey said the attack on Iraq was a reasonable sanction against Saddam. "You can call it a legal sanction. You can also call it a moral sanction," Levey said. The U.S. action is meant to "curb (Hussein's) desire to assert himself in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East in general," he said. U.S. bombs targets in southern Iraq A AP PHOTO A group of demonstrators from the socialist Workers Party bum an American flag In front of the U.S. consulate in Istanbul yesterday. U.S. military bombs Iraqi targets. President Clinton ordered attacks on Traqi targets in the southern section of the mideast country early yesterday. B-52H Bombers, stationed in Guam, were sent to drop a barrage of bombs, and Tomahawk missiles were deployed from offshore locations in the Persian Gulf, in total hitting 27 times. Late last night, U.S. Military forces fired an additional 17 missiles. -- ATTACK Continued from Page 1 will be no way" that Saddam could attack either Jordan or Kuwait. "It is to ensure that we can rule the skies over Iraq," he said. A defiant Hussein vowed yesterday to respond to U.S. missile strikes, ordering his troops to shoot down foreign aircraft and ignore the no-fly zones designed to keep his military in check. Kurdish rebels in the north celebrated the attacks ordered by President Clinton, but said Saddam's forces were still pressing their offensive against them. The United States launched two missile attacks against Saddam's air defense system in southern Iraq, unleashing the second round today to pick off targets missed in the first assault yesterday. Three warships and a submarine in the Persian Gulf fired 17 cruise missiles in the second attack, Pentagon sources said. There was no immediate word on damage. Air raid sirens sounded in the capital for a sec- ond day this morning, going off at 5:30 a.m. and wailing through the dawn. The first attack - by two American warships and a pair of B-52 bombers - fired 27 cruise mis- siles, killing five people, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials. The first attack prompted Saddam to announce he would no longer honor the two no-fly zones that bar his warplanes from the skies of northern and southern Iraq. "From now on, pay no attention to damned imaginary no-fly zones," Saddam told his armed forces. "Depend only on God, and hit hard and professionally at any flying target that belongs to the allied aggressors that penetrates the airspace of your beloved and glorious homeland." "Fight, resist these aggressors and teach them a new, unforgettable lesson about values that their empty souls lack." During and since the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, Saddam has responded to punishing action by the West with dramatic threats of retaliation that were rarely carried out. Clinton launched the strikes in response to Saddam's weekend assault on Kurdish rebels in Irbil, the main city in the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq. Associated Press correspondent Yalman Onaran reported from Irbil yesterday that the city was calm, but the boom of heavy artillery could be heard to the south. Trucks loaded wit fighters of the Iraqi-allied Kurdistan Democratic Party headed out of the city' in long convoys, some heading towrd the city for Sulaymaniyah, 100 miles to the southeast. "We will attack Sulaymaniyah tonight, God willing," said one KDP fighter, who refused to give his name. Iraqi television showed men in the northern city of Mosul, within the U.S.-declared Kurdish safe haven, marching in the streets in support of Saddam. Saddam claimed Iraqi forces shot down most of the missiles yesterday. In Washington, Gen. Joseph Ralston said there was "no evidence" of successful Iraqi counterattacks. In addition to the missile strikes, Clinton also declared that the southern no-fly zone would be moved up from the 32nd to the 33rd parallel - a line that reaches the southern suburbs of Baghdad and places roughly half of Iraq inside the zones: Iraq's deputy prime minister insisted the American attack was unjustified, saying Saddam's forces had withdrawn from Irbil "several hours" before the missile strikes. He also derided U.S. claims that Saddam had violated U.N. Resolution 688, which prohibits the Iraqi leader from oppress- / rr 4 IRAQ JOSH WHITE/Daily ing his people. "We did not violate U.N. resolutions," Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said on CNN. "I chal- lenge the American administration (to say) upon what basis of international law ... this aggression was being justified." But U.S. and rebel leaders said Iraqi forces had not withdrawn from Irbil before the attack and fighting continued south and east toward Sulaymaniyah. Iraq's ruling Revolution Command Council urged U.N. Security Council members to rein in L the United States - and seemed to threaten them as well if they did not. The United States and Britain were having r trouble gathering support in the Security Council for a resolution condemning Iraq; France and Russia, two other permanent council members, opposed the measure. The council did approve a routine renewal of the sanctions against Iraq, as expected. Russia condemned the bombing, which it said could send events in the region spiraling "out of control." China urged both sides to show restraint, while Britain said the United States was right to attack after Saddam's army moved north into Kurdish rebel areas with 45,000 soldiers and 300 tanks. British Prime Minister John Major said the U.S. attacks were designed to prevent a recurrence of "the humanitarian tragedy" after the Persian Gulf War in 1991 when Saddam's forces killed large numbers of Kurds. Wing span 185 ft. Height 40 ft. 8 in ta seed 59nph Cruising speed 509 mph |Ran3ge mode1 10'000 Mi Armament (B-52H) Single 20mm cannon in tail turret, 12 AGM-86 cruise missiles externally and eight internally on CSRL Builder Boeing Co. Official nickname Stratofortress AP GRAPHIC oUrce: Jane's All theWordd's Aircraft Officials say missile barrage was a 'limited' response 10 WASHINGTON - U.S. military officials said yesterday that the missile barrage against Iraq's anti-aircraft net- work represented a limited response by President Clinton, who rejected options ranging from attacks on Saddam Hussein's military headquarters in Baghdad to blasting Iraqi troops still occupying Kurdish villages. "We could have done a lot more," said one Pentagon official who partici- pated in the combined Navy/Air Force assault launched from the Persian Gulf. "But the president's policy decisions may inflict more punishment than the warheads." While the strike was portrayed as a response to Hussein's dispatch of troops and tanks into Kurdish areas, the mis- sile attacks steered clear of direct U.S. military involvement in long-simmer- ing Kurdish feuds. Instead, the targets were surface-to- air missile, or SAM, sites along with their associated radar and command and control centers that defend an area south of Baghdad. Clinton yesterday unilaterally extended the southern "no- fly zone" for Iraqi aircraft 70 miles far- ther north from the zone created by allied forces at the end of the 1991 gulf "We could have done a lot more" - A Pentagon official who was part of Iraqi assault war. As of noon Wednesday, aircraft from two major Iraqi airfields, Tallil and Nasireah, in the new no-fly sector will face attacks by U.S. warplanes. And troops using an infantry training base in the new no-fly area no longer will be able operate with air support. "Now, in order to conduct this no-fly zone, we will have to have coalition air- craft fly farther north into Iraq than they have in the past," Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters. "The rea- son for the strike was to take out those air defenses that would threaten the coalition aircraft." Defense Secretary William Perry made clear the steps were designed to enhance regional stability for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - and their oil exports. "Our national interests are not tied to which party prevails in this con- flict in northern Iraq," Perry said. Pentagon officials said Perry's com- ment underlined a firm decision by Clinton to stay out of the intra-Kurdish fighting in northern Iraq where Hussein's troops have sided with one faction against another supported by Iran. "The issue is not simply the Iraqi attack on Irbil," Perry said. "Saddam Hussein has demonstrated once more his willingness to use military power recklessly, and we must demonstrate once more our willingness and capabil- ity to check that power and deter (him) from being the regional bully." Clinton and Pentagon officials acknowledged that Iraqi troops were remaining in Irbil while tanks and artillery moved on other Kurdish vil- lages. Instead of becoming embroiled in the Kurdish areas engulfed by fighting, Clinton's decision permits U.S. air superiority to come into play once again. If, as Hussein has threatened, Iraqi warplanes fly Wednesday, they will be easily outclassed by Air Force warplanes based in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. 10 AP PHOTO At United Nations Headquarters, United Nations Deputy Ambassador of Iraq Saeed H. Hasan speaks to reporters after United Nations Security Council consultations on the U.S. attack on Iraq yesterday. France, Russia criticize U.S. airstries1on mdest target 3fca p ete omeewtev y7- - FOOD IN GL( Biology 102, Section 001 Biological Anthropology 364 Classical Civilization 452 English 317, Section 002 u: ..a 111%-f § - )BA L HISTO RY Natural Resources and Environment 427 Nursing 317 Public Health/ElH 630 Public Health/ElH 639 R% _ -- a 11 - ---- O , The Washington Post PARIS - France and Russia criticized U.S. airstrikes on Iraq yesterday, marring the Clinton administration's hopes for allied unanimity against President Saddam Hussein. Despite its five-year role as a partner in enforcing "no- fly zones" over northern and southern Iraq, France was conspicuously frank among NATO allies in refusing to endorse the U.S. cruise missile attack. The French govern- ment said it viewed the evolving situation in Iraq with "anxiety." Spain expressed understanding but simultaneously voiced regret that the missile barrage was not postponed. Britain and Germany, meanwhile, declared outright support for the deci- sion to retaliate for Saddam's movement of troops into the protected Kurdish zone of northern Iraq. President Clinton telephoned French President Jacques Chirac Monday night to inform him of the impending strikes. According to reports broadcast here, Chirac tried in vain to persuade Clinton to take a more measured response. A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said that under the circumstances of the American presidential election cam- paign, France understood Clinton's "motives." Clinton referred to those political pressures in his conversation with Chirac, according to a French official. "This was a conversation between good friends," the offi- cial said of the two leaders' talk. I P, 1 0 i