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- <text id=91TT0367>
- <title>
- Feb. 18, 1991: A Quagmire To Come?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- A Quagmire To Come?
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait City have taken up residence in
- thousands of the city's apartments and have been ordered to
- fight to the death, according to a Palestinian economist who
- left the occupied country in late January. Dislodging the
- well-armed soldiers will involve "house-to-house,
- street-to-street fighting," says the Palestinian. He confirms
- that Iraqis have mined refineries, government buildings and
- large homes to prevent the allies from establishing forward
- positions. In the process, citizens have been left without
- shelter. "I have seen with my own eyes that Iraqi soldiers are
- dug in everywhere, and they will use the local population as
- shields," he adds.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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