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...dispute exists because bomb-damage assessment is more an art than a science. Each of the agencies involved -- Central Command in Riyadh, the Air Force command, the Central Intelligence Agency and its military counterpart, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency -- has its own way of deciding whether a target has been destroyed. Not surprisingly, the different techniques have yielded divergent results...
...Central Command maintains that the overall strength of the Iraqi forces has been reduced 40% to 50%, the goal allied commanders wanted to reach before launching a ground assault...
...Defense Intelligence Agency claims Central Command's figures are 15% to 20% too high...
Special-operations forces had been deep inside Kuwait for at least a week, harassing Iraqi forces and striking command-and-control centers; the U.S. had even set up a helicopter-refueling depot about 25 miles behind the Iraqi border fortifications. As the deadline approached, allied engineers cut wide passages through defensive sand berms that the Iraqis had erected along the borders, creating gaps that soldiers and tanks could pour through. Allied planes began using napalm for the first time in the war, dropping it on oil- filled trenches in front of Iraqi positions. The Iraqis had planned to set fire...
...promising signs." After our conversation on the night of Feb. 12, Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz told me about the decision of the Iraqi leadership to send him to the Soviet Union to continue the contacts. Three days later, on the eve of Aziz's arrival in Moscow, the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq issued its sensational statement, acknowledging for the first time its readiness to pull Iraqi troops out of Kuwait...