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- THE WEEK, Page 13NATIONAnother Desert Storm
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- A Saudi co-commander has some harsh words for Stormin' Norman
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- They were comrades-in-arms and co-commanders of the Persian
- Gulf War, but Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia has now
- issued some fighting words about his old friend General H. Norman
- Schwarzkopf. At issue is Schwarzkopf's current best seller, It
- Doesn't Take a Hero, which General Khaled has read and found
- riddled with "inaccuracies and slanted remarks." In an
- unusually open gesture for a member of the Saudi royal family,
- the prince released a public statement accusing the general of
- exaggerating his own role during the conflict ("One has to
- wonder whether there was no one else in the Gulf War picture
- capable of doing anything right") and challenging his account
- on specific points. Among them: the prince says Schwarzkopf's
- claim to have "orchestrated the liberation of Kuwait City" is
- untrue; the prince and his Arab forces did it. The flap is not
- likely to disappear. The prince notes: "I will be addressing
- some of these issues in my own book in due course."
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