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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
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 27
American Notes
COMBAT
Horror in The Desert
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<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."
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