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- <text id=91TT2094>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: American Notes:Combat
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- COMBAT
- Horror in The Desert
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Were thousands of Iraqis buried alive during the allied
- operation against their front line last February? U.S. Army
- officers say that as tanks equipped with plows and bulldozers
- punched holes in the 70-mile-long Iraqi defense strip, enemy
- soldiers who refused to surrender were trapped under avalanches
- of sand. Colonel Anthony Moreno, commander of a unit that
- followed the initial U.S. breakthrough, recalls seeing arms
- protruding from the sand. "For all I know, we could have buried
- thousands," he told New York Newsday.
- </p>
- <p> Pentagon officials concede that some men were suffocated
- but say it is impossible to provide an accurate tally of those
- who died in that grisly manner. Of the Iraqis stationed in the
- trenches, 2,000 surrendered. "The rest," said Pentagon spokesman
- Pete Williams, "chose to stay and fight." Pointing out that the
- operation did not violate international rules of engagement, he
- added, "There is no nice way to kill somebody in war."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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