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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15Not a Drop To Drink
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Iraqi forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq have a weak link:
- their water supply. According to U.S. intelligence reports, the
- Iraqis have only about four days' worth of water on hand for
- drinking and for cooling tanks and vehicles. The supply flows
- from an already damaged desalinization plant in Kuwait City and
- via pipelines and tanker trucks from Baghdad and Basra. So far,
- allied bombers have concentrated on higher-priority targets
- within Iraq, including mobile Scud missile launchers. But
- coalition leaders will soon focus on the supply lines, and
- remain confident that they can thirst out the Iraqis. Predicts
- one White House official: "They'll come out with their hands
- up, begging us for water."
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