From dartvax!cabot!harelb Fri Feb 1 03:07:48 EST 1991 Article 8142 of alt.activism: Xref: dartvax alt.activism:8142 misc.headlines:22566 talk.politics.misc:52437 soc.rights.human:4682 Newsgroups: alt.activism,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,soc.rights.human,alt.desert-shield,alt.desert-shield.facts Path: dartvax!cabot!harelb >From: harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) Subject: Report: OVER 100,000 IRAQIS SLAUGHTERED Message-ID: <1991Feb1.074308.22075@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Date: Fri, 1 Feb 1991 07:43:08 GMT Lines: 94 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] ------------------------------------------------------------------ /** mideast.gulf: 136.0 **/ ** Topic: GULFWATCH No.13 - 31 January 1991 ** ** Written 4:41 pm Jan 31, 1991 by gn:aldopacific in cdp:mideast.gulf ** ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: While it is customary to de-humanize "the enemy" during wartime, and even the deaths of Iraqi civilians are trivialized, I would like to point out that Iraqi soldiers, not just American soldiers, are "boys" to their families, and include draftees and others who had little or no choice but to be in their current possition --not that choice would morally have justified their murder. While the mass- murder of Iraqi civilians is even more clealry an unnecessary atrocity which an increasing number of Americans are condemning, let not a single inch of moral ground be yielded on the issue of the life of the Iraqi soldiers being anything less than human, with blood as red as every American soldiers, as red as ours. --HB GULFWATCH No. 13 - Thursday, 31 January 1991 GREENPEACE REPORT ON IRAQI DEATHS igc:pnmideast mideast.media.63 6:30 pm Jan 30, 1991 Greenpeace/USA According to a source of mine in the State Department, a B-52 bomber attack that was carried out this morning that wiped out Saddam's elite forces has likely killed up to 150,000 Iraqi troops. That is the number of troops that were housed in the encampment that was bombed. There is also some question on the number of civilian casualties as a result of the attacks on the chemical and nuclear weapons facilities -- no mention of what this has done to the Iraqis (i.e. massive chemical, nuclear poisoning). Nor is there any mention of the number of casualties in the mainstream press on the Iraqi side, much like the way we handled Panama -- only focussing on our own losses. If you can forward this info on to any one who might be interested, I would appreciate it. Daphne Wysham, Greenpeace Magazine, Senior Editor. (GulfWatch has no way of verifying this report.) ################################################################## BAGHDAD THREATENED BY NUCLEAR/CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION igc:prcsandiego mideast.gulf.279 9:18 am Jan 30, 1991 (January 26, 1991) For the six million residents of Baghdad, the New World Odour may include whiffs of toxic chemicals and radioactive dust following relentless allied air attacks which have delivered the equivalent of four Hiroshima bombs on the city during the first week of war. I interviewed a Gulf Peace Camp volunteer, just arrived here from Baghdad, who told of fleeing a "chemical cloud" in one section of the city. "You could see and smell it," he said. We ran for our lives." He thought the toxic cloud could have come from industries damaged by the heavy bombing. In related developments, Dr. Abdullah Toucan, top science adviser to King Hussein, told Vancouver artist Carl Chaplin and myself that he was concerned by the release of Seranin, mustard gas, and other chemical warfare agents the release of Seranin, mustard gas, and other chemical warfare agents following the destruction of an Iraqi chemical warfare factory ltLamara. Even worse, the worldwide nightmare of sabotaged nuclear power plants has come true with the bombing of a five megawatt nuclear plant near Baghdad. Dr. Toucan fears that dangerously high levels of Iodine, Cessium, and other radio-active contaminants may be spreading to that city. A look at a Middle East map shows US troops in Saudi Arabia to be downwind from these toxic releases. Dr. Toucan also described the oily pall of soot and smoke from a burning Kuwaiti oil field at al-Wafra as "more toxic than any chemcial or biological weapon in Sadam Hussein's command." Fears that this cloud of "Black Rain" could grow to the size of the United States if hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells are set alight during an imminent US invasion have prompted Dr. Toucan, Carl Sagan, and other world scientists to call on the UN to invoke a special Article of the UN Charter, involving an immediate meeting of the UN General Assembly in the face of "danger to the world." "This is not a military or political call for a ceasefire, which has little hope of success, but an ecological call," said Dr. Toucan. Randy Thomas, Gulf Environmental Emergency Response Team, Coordination Centre, Mariott Hotel, Rm. 1229, Amman, Jordon. 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