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65 civilian, 179 military targets bombed
NICOSIA Feb !• : A senior Iraqi official said more than 20.000 Iraqis were kilted and 60.000 wounded in the first 26 day. of the OuM War. an Iranian newspaper reported fuesday. states AP
The state run Tehran daily Jomhurl Istemi said Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister. Saadoun Hammadi. reported those figures to Iran's first Deputy Foreign Minister. All Mohammed BesharaU. during talks fast week.
The newspaper also said Besharatl said Hammadi estimated that Allied air raid, had Inflicted 200 billion Dollars In damage on Iraq since the war began
An Iraqi military communique broadcast by Baghdad Radio Tuesday said Allied air raids hit 65 civilian targets and 179 military targeta In 24 hours. Il said tf»e " barbaric raids" had not demoralised thn Iraqi public.
In the war rone. Allied forces worked on land, sea and air to strip Iraqi forces of the will and the means to fight, setting the stage for a swift and fierce assault.
In northern Saudt Arabia. US troops repositioned them selves, seeking to keep the Iraqis guessing. Along the bor der. allied reconnaissance teams stole across 12-foot (4-meter) protective berms Into the no-man’s-land between opposing fronts to scout the
In the air campaign, France said Its Jaguar fighter-bomliers hit Iraqi artillery positions Tuesday in Iraq and Kuwait.
Targets bombed
In the norhtem Gulf, state-of-the-art Allied minesweepers intensified efforts to find and explode mines.
The missile cruiser USS Princeton, a billion-dollar warship. was sent to a Gulf port for damage assessment. US military officials said it was badly damaged by a mine on Monday.
The other US vessel damaged Monday was the USS Tripoli, a helicopter assault carrier serving as flagship for the newly mounted mine-clearing operation.Iraq's formidable ground forces have lain low during the air bombardment. But the country's military newspaper said Tuesday that if a land battle comes. Iraq will prevail
Reuter reports : US Marines bombarded Iraqi targets in ocr cupled Kuwait with heavy artillery fire for the second successive day Tuesday.
A pool press report said a battalion-sized task force of the First Marine Division pounded bunkers and troop concentrations Just across the front line, south of Al-Wafra oil field.
At least seven secondary explosions were set off by the shelling indicating munitions, fuel or equipment had been destroyed, but there were no accurate assessments of damage or casualties.
Meanwhile, Iraqi forces shot down another US A-10 combat support aircraft during operations in the Kuwait theatre. a US military spokesman said Tuesday.
Brigadier General Richard Neal. Deputy Director of Operations at the US Command in Riyadh said the status of the A-10'a pilot was not yet known. He would only say that the aircraft was shot down during the previous 24 hours.
More than 30 explosions rocked the Rashid Hotei, forcing moot of the 40 foreign journalists staying there to retreat to basement shelters They said the bombing was so intense that they breathed smoke from the blasts
Iraq today warned the Allied forces they were tn for -frightening surprises' if they carried on with the Gulf war