26 Jan (continuing)        criminate environmental war'1 causing catastrophic environmental
                           damage to entire Persian Gulf region, and refutes Iraqi allegation that
                           U.S. or coalition sabotaged facility and caused spill. U.S. is sending a
                           team of U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA and EPA oil pollutipn and environ-
                           mental experts to scene to assist Saudi Arabian efforts to contain the
                           spill.
                     U.S. Marines stage biggest artillery attack of the war, firing a battery of
                           155mm howitzers at Iraqi troops six miles inside Kuwait.
                     Three U.S. Marines, members of the First Marine Division, were killed and
                           seven injured when two LAV-25 Light Armored vehicles accidentally
                           collided as the Marines were returning from a raid mission along the
                           Saudi-Kuwaiti border. To-date, U.S. non-hostile deaths are 10, 14 are
                           missing, and 3 have been wounded. Hostile deaths remain at 0.
                     Iraq fires a SCUD missile at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, intercepted by U.S.
                           Patriot missile. In a second attack, three SCUDs are launched at
                           Haifa and one SCUD at Tel Aviv, Israel. All were intercepted by U.S.
                           Patriot missiles. This latest salvo brings to 45 total SCUD launches.
                     U.S. troop strength has increased to 483,000 in the region.
                     Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW) to-date: 110, in U.S. facilities awaiting
                           processing to Saudia Arabian EPW camp.

27 Jan               DOD announces that USAF F-ills attacked pipelines feeding the Sea Island
                           Terminal with GBU-15 laser-guided bombs to stem the flow of oil,
                           now 35 miles long and 10 miles wide, into the Persian Gulf, and to
                           ignite oil and burn off pollutants. The attack specifically targeted sys-
                           tem of pipes that regulate oil flow from storage tanks to the terminal
                           called manifolds. Oil flow has apparently drastically slowed, and fire
                           should burn out in about 24 hours.
                     Over 22,000 sorties have been flown, including attacks on 3 SCUD missile
                           launch sites, Republican Guard troop emplacements, bridges, lines of
                           communications and shelters. There have been no U.S. aircraft lost in
                           the past 48 hours.
                     Four Iraqi MIG-23 aircraft have been destroyed in air-to-air engagements
                           with 2 USAF F-15s near Baghdad. Iraqi aircraft losses in air-to-
                           air engagements to~date total 26.
                     USN A-6s attack and destroy an Iraqi ship, and coalition naval forces con-
                           tinue to hunt Iraqi patrol and mine-laying boats in the northern Ara-
                           bian Gulf and near Bubiyan Island. To-date, 8 Iraqi vessels (1 oil
                           platform service ship, 2 patrol boats, 1 tanker, and 4 unknown) are
                           presumed destroyed, and 10 (4 mining vessels, 1 hovercraft, 3 patrol
                           boats, and 2 unknown) have been sunk. 2 additional mines have been
                           located and destroyed in the northern Arabian Gulf.
                     39 Iraqi aircraft, including 23 in the past 24 hours, have landed in Iran. Iran
                           announces that to protect its neutrality, any warplanes landing within
                           its borders would be confiscated and held until end of hostilities.
                     U.S. Patriot missiles intercept 6 Iraqi SCUD missiles aimed at Saudi Arabia
                           and Israel. 51 SCUDs have been launched to-date.


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