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(MmMiili’ THE GULF
An update on America's involvement in the Middle East
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Friday, August 31, 1990
University Press
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Weapons intended
to bolster defense
w WASHINGTON (UPI)—President
push has offered to sell Saudi Arabia
advanced warplanes, tanks and anti-
aircraft missiles to beef up its
(lefenses in the face of an increased
threat from Iraq, the White House
Announced Wednesday,
t Deputy White House press
secretary Roman Popadiuk said Bush
nas informed Congress of the possible
sale of 24 F-15 fighters, 150 M-60
^anks, 200 Stinger anti-aircraft
missiles and several thousand tank-
directed depleted uranium shells.
t The weapons, intended to bolster
a Saudi military force built on more
than $30 billion in arms purchases
firom the United States over the years,
will be drawn from existing U.S.
inventories at a yet undetermined
«ost, he said.
The administration also is
considering subsequent sales -
reported by The Washington Post to
include 24 more F-15s - “to help
provide the Saudis with the force
structure to help them defend
themselves,” Popadiuk told reporters.
Disclosure of the prospective arms
deal followed a round of public and
private consultations in Saudi Arabia
and Washington, including a meeting
late Tuesday between Bush and
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi
ambassador to the United States.
After returning last week from a
Middle East trip that included high-
level talks in Saudi Arabia, Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney said the
United States was preparing a “two-
stage process” of first meeting the
Saudis’ “cmcigency needs” and then
strengthening their defense posture
considered augmenting its own show
of force in the Persian Gulf area by
building up the defenses of Arab
countries friendly to the United
States.
broader arms race might only
heighten the potential for
confrontation either in the current
crisis or in the future.
Given the immediacy of the
problems in the gulf region, the latest
proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia
may attract less opposition from Israel
and its political allies than previous
transfers of U.S. weaponry to Arab
nations.
One element that may help
minimize any security concerns by
Israel is that the aircraft destined for
sale to the Saudis are the older F-15C
and F-15D air-tp-air varieties, rather
than the more sophisticated F-15E
with ground-attack capability.
Cheney said last week that the F-
15E was “the kind of thing we’d work
in the longer-term package” of arms
sales to the Saudis. When asked
whether that might prompt objections
from Israel, he asserted the political
dynamics of such a sale had “changed
dramatically" with the massing of as
many as 200,000 Iraqi troops and
1,000 Iraqi tanks in occupied Kuwait
near the border with Saudi Arabia.
“I don’t think this is a situation
that presents any threat whatsoever to
Israel,” he said. “And I would not
expect there to be any opposition in
that quarter to our efforts to help the
Saudis and our friends in the region
deal with what is a threat to their very
existence.”
nI don't think this is a situation that presents
any threat whatsoever to Israel..."
—Dick Cheney,
Defense Secretary
over the long term. That has elicited a skeptical
Since the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of response' from some members of
Kuwait, the administration has Congress, who have warned that a
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
United States has committed the
following forces to Saudi Arabia
and nearby waters:
Navy
Joint Task Force - Middle East
(In the Persian Gulf - 10 ships)
1 Command ship: USS LaSalle
1 Battleship: USS Wisconsin
2 Cruisers: USS England, USS
Antietam
1 Destroyer: USS David R. Ray
5 Frigates: USS Vandegrift,
USS Rentz, USS Robert G.
Bradley, USS Bar bey, USS
Brewton
Independence Battle Group
(In the Gulf of Oman - 7 ships)
1 Carrier: USS Independence
1 Cruiser: USS Jouett
1 Destroyer: USS
Goldsborough
1 Frigate: USS Reid
3 Supply ships
Saratoga Battle Group
(In the Red Sea - 6 ships)
1 Carrier USS Saratoga
1 Cruiser: USS Belknap
1 Destroyer: USS Sampson
2 Frigates: USS Elmer
Montgomery, USS Thomas C. Hart
1 Oiler
Eisenhower Battle Group
(In the Eastern Mediterranean - 10
ships)
1 Carrier USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower
2 Cruisers: USS Ticonderoga and
one other
4 Destroyers: USS Scott, USS
John Rodgers, USS Tattnall, USS
Peterson
2 Frigates: USS John L. Hall, USS
Paul
1 Ammunition ship: USS
Suribachi
5 Marine amphibious assault ships
are conducting 6th Fleet operations.
Kennedy Battle Group
(In the Atlantic - 8 ships)
1 Carrier: USS John F. Kennedy
3 Cruisers: USS Mississippi, USS
San Jacinto, USS Thomas S. Gates
1 Destroyer: Moosbrugger
3 Auxiliary ships
8 Marine amphibious assault ships
with the 4th Marine Expeditionary
Brigade are heading to the Middle
East region.
Amphibious Command Ship
(In the Pacific - 1 ship)
The USS Blue Ridge amphibious
command ship has left the Pacific
and is en route to the Persian Gulf,
where it will serve as flagship for the
commander of U.S. naval forces, U.S.
Central Command.
Air Force
Military Airlift Command (MAC)
C-141, C-5 and C-130 cargo aircraft
are involved in moving personnel and
equipment to the Middle East.
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
KC-135 and KC-10 aerial tankers are
refueling aircraft en route to the
Middle East.
F-15 Eagle fighters from 1st
Tactical Fighter Wing, Langley Air
Force Base, Va.
F-15E Eagle fighters from 4th
Tactical Fighter Wing, Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters
from 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing,
Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.
E-3 Airborne Warning and
Control System (AWACS) planes
from 552nd Airborne Warning and
Control Wing, Tinker Air Force Base,
Okla.
RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft.
F-l 17A stealth fighter-bombers
from 37th Tactical Fighter Wing,
Tonopah Test Range Airfield, Nev.
A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-
attack aircraft from 354th Tactical
Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach Air
Force Base, S.C.
F-l 1 IF fighter-bombers from
48th Tactical Fighter Wing, Royal Air
Force, Lakenheath, England.
F-4G Wild Weasel fighters from
35th Tactical Fighter Wing, George
Air Force Base, Calif.
C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft from
435th Tactical Airlift Wing, Rhein
Main Air Base, West Germany, 317th
Tactical Airlift Wing, Pope Air Force
Base, N.C.; and 314th Tactical Airlift
Wmg, Little Rock Air Force Base,
Ark.
Air Transportable Hospitals from
MacDill, Langley, Shaw, Seymour
Johnson and Myrtle Beach Air Force
Bases.
Army - Elements of:
1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood,
lex as
2nd Armored Division, Fort Hood
82nd Airborne Division, Fort
Bragg, N.C.
24th Infantry (Mechanized)
Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
101st Airborne Division, Fort
Campbell, Ky.
1st Corps Support Command,
Fort Bragg, N.C.
197th Infantry Brigade
(Mechanized), Fort Benning, Ga.
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment,
Fort Bliss, Texas
11th Air Defense Artillery
Brigade, Fort Bliss
101st Aviation Brigade, Fort
Campbell, Ky.
Headquarters, 3rd U.S. Army,
Fort McPherson, Ga.
3rd Corps Artillery, Fort Sill,
Okla.
7th Medical Command, West
Germany
13th Corps Support Command,
Fort Hood
Marines - Elements of.
1st Marine Expeditionary Force,
command element from Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
1st Marine Expeditionary
Brigade, Marine Corps Air Station,
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
4th Marine Expeditionary
Brigade, headquartered at Norfolk,
Va.; includes mits of 2nd Marine
Division and 2nd Force Service
Support Group from Camp
Lejeune, N.C., and the 2nd
Marine Aircraft Wmg at Cherry
Point and New River, N.C.
7th Marine Expeditionary
Brigade, TWenty-nine Palms,
Calif.; includes units of 1st Marine
Division and 1st Force Service
Support Group, Camp Pendleton,
Calif.; 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, El
Toro, Calif.
Terrorist attacks possibility
Government inventories U.S. military presence in Middle East
Administration offers arms to Saudis
if Iraq's Hussein cornered
By Lee Stokes
UPI
CAIRO, Egypt - Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein may resort to
terrorist attacks on U.S. targets in
light of his access to groups and
leaders linked to international
terrorism, moderate Palestinian
officials and Arab diplomats say.
Arab diplomats from the Persian
Gulf point out that it was terrorism,
not military confrontation, that
forced U.S. troops out of the Middle
East the last time they were there in
force, and cited the example of the
1983 truck bombing of barracks in
Lebanon that left 241 U.S. Marines
dead.
But a PLO official opposed to the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait who asked
that his'name not be used told
United Press International it is
unlikely the Iraqi leader would
unleash terrorist acts unless forced
to.
“I don’t think (he) will use this
option unless he is in a corner,” the
official said.
“His decision to release women
and children in Iraq is perhaps a sign
that he wants to exhaust all options
before resorting to terrorism. But his
ability to use terrorists is quite clear
and quite worrying,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal last week
quoted one foreign intelligence
estimate as saying “there may be as
many as 1,400 active international
terrorists now in Iraq.”
The PLO official said Saddam
has “used the Abu Nidal
Organization to attack Israeli targets”
and cited the 1982 attack on the
Israeli ambassador in London.
Recent Arab reports said
hundreds of PLO fighters in
Lebanon were defecting “in droves”
to Abu Nidal.
The Abu Nidal group, once
described by the State Department
as “the most dangerous terrorist
organization in existence,” was set
up in Baghdad in 1973 and
maintained facilities there even after
it moved in 1983 to Syria and later to
Libya, the official said.
Abu Nidal himself, a former PLO
official known as Sabri al Banna, is
believed to be in Baghdad.
The Abu Nidal organization has
shown itself capable of hijackings,
indiscriminate gun and grenade
attacks, bombings, assassinations and
kidnappings through a network of
clandestine cells extending around
the world.
The PLO official also said
another terrorist leader, Abul Abbas,
distributed an order to his forces in
their Lebanese stronghold of Sidon
calling on them to attack U.S.
targets.
According to the official, the
order read in pa(t: “Open fire on the
American enemy everywhere. Quake
the earth under the feet of the
invaders and collaborators ... the
daily fighting order to each and every
one of you, wherever you are, is:
“One - hit American interests
and all the intelligence centers
linked to them. Ttoo - strike at the
interests of the treacherous agents in
the Arab nation and all brokers allied
with American imperialism. Three -
attack the American and NATO
military presence in the Arabian
peninsula.”
The Abul Abbas order appeared
directed not only toward the United
States but also at such countries as
Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Bangladesh
and Pakistan, all of which have sent
or plan to send troops to defend
Saudi Arabia.
The PLO official said 4,300
fighters of the Baghdad-based
Palestine Liberation Front led by
Abul Abbas volunteered to help
“defend Iraq.”
Abu Ibrahim, a master
bombmaker and designer of the
hidden suitcase bomb for destroying
airliners, was reported in Arab
newspapers as retired and living in
Baghdad. His expertise might be
available to support other groups
responsible for the placing of
explosive devices.
Abu Salim, whose Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine-
Special Command claimed
responsibility for the 1985 bombing
of a Spanish restaurant frequented
by U.S. servicemen, is also reported
to be based in Baghdad.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
moved key parts of the PLO
leadership to Baghdad from Tbnis,
'TUnisia, before the Aug. 2 invasion of
Kuwait and has supported Iraq
against the West and such Arab
states as Egypt. But Arafat himself
has renounced violence and
recognized the right of Israel to exist
as a prerequisite for talks with the
United States.
An unlikely tool for Iraq in the
event it sponsors terrorist attacks >
may be Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Shiite *
Moslem group, Hezbollah.
In seizing Kuwait, Saddam
secured the fate of 15 Shiite i
terrorists held there, including the J
brother-in-law of one of Hezbollah's *
toughest operatives, Imad
Mugniyah. This places Saddam in a ;
powerful position to influence -
Hezbollah, which is believed to be
behind the kidnapping of American
and other Western hostages in r
Lebanon, the Egyptian sources said.
Hezbollah carried out suicide
bomb attacks on the U.S. and French
military and diplomatic targets in
Lebanon in 1983. And since the *
September 1989 execution of 16
Kuwaiti Shiites in Saudi Arabia for «
involvement in bombings in Mecca,
a number of attacks have also been
mounted on Saudi diplomatic -.
targets.
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mounted operations in Europe in Jj
recent years and arms caches -
belonging to the group have been
found in West Africa, Spain and
Cyprus.
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Reservists guaranteed rights while active
* Reservists and National Guard
members who have been called to
active duty as a result of Operation
Desert Shield are due special
financial protection for themselves
and their families, U.S. Sen. Phil
Gramm says.
* “Under the Soldiers and Sailors
Relief Act, the Veterans
Reemployment Right Law and the
regulations of the Defense
Department, people who are called to
active duty are shielded from paying a
price for serving our country,” he said.
Even though their incomes may
be reduced in the shift from civilian
payrolls to military duty, service
members on temporary active duty
are protected against mortgage
foreclosures, cancellation of certain
contracts and the continuation of
lawsuits in their absence.
“No reservist or National Guard
member should have to fear losing
their home while they are away on
military duty,” said Gramm.
“They also have a right to their
jobs back when their military duty is
done, with no loss of seniority or pay
status,” the senator said.
Gramm also noted that
dependents of active-duty reservists
and Guard members are eligible for a
broad range of benefits and service,
including health care through on-base
or CHAMPUS (civilian care) facilities
and full access to commissary or
exchange facilities on military bases.
“Families should contact their
local Guard or reserve unit for more
information, or they can simply call
the nearest military base - including
the larger Coast Guard installations -
and get information from the on-base
family center about referral services,
emergency assistance and
counseling,” said the senator.
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