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THE WEEK, Page 13NATIONAnother Desert Storm
A Saudi co-commander has some harsh words for Stormin' Norman
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."