NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: FIGHTING RESUMES IN GULF WAR

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• Publication Date: September 17, 1987
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Gulf War
Attacks Follow End
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,
Sept. 16-Iraq said its war planes
resumed strikes on Iranian targets
today, only hours after U.N. Sec-
retary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar left Baghdad at the end of
his four-day mission to the region.
Iran, in turn, said its forces had
attacked Iraqi naval targets in the
northern Persian Gulf. It also an-
nounced that it would hold a new
round of maneuvers in the Gulf of
Oman starting Thursday in the re-
gion where French mine sweepers --
already have begun operations. Iran
also said Kurdish forces which it
backs were holding their own
against counterattacks in northern
Iraq close to strategic oil pipeline
facilities.
The announcements signaled a
renewal of the sea and land attacks
that marked the weeks leading up
to Perez de Cuellar's trip to Tehran
and Baghdad, during which he
The announcements _
signaled a renewal'
of the sea and land
attacks that marked
the weeks leading
up to Perez de
Cuellar's trio.
sought to find grounds for imple-
menting a Security Council resolu-
tion calling for a cease-fire in the
long-running gulf conflict.
An Iraqi military communique,
said that its planes struck the east-
ern jetty of Iran's Kharg Island oil
terminal at 3 a.m. and that-a "large
naval target," the Iraqi term for a
snip, was hit an hour later near the
Iranian coast. Later in the day,
Baghdad reported strikes on the
Iranian oilfields at Karang and
Baghi-Malek. The, Iraqis also said
-Iran had continued shelling the Iraqi
city of Basra. -
Iran, which previously has con=
ducted naval maneuvers, Said the
new; round would include speed-
boats equipped "with all sorts of
light' and medium-weight weapons"
and ;would involve regular troops
and Revolutionary Guards. ;
The announcement said the ma-
neuvers were designed to train for
"inflicting blows on global arro-
gance" of the western powers that
have amassed a large fleet of war-
ships in the Persian Gulf and in the
1 .?Kuwai tanker rinceJ
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Ahmadi oil to r: after a quiet
trip through the `
French " mine sweepers began
working Friday in waters off the
United Arab Emirates' port of Fu-
jayrah, where two ships have struck
mines believed to have been laid by
the Iranians. British mine sweepers
also are believed to be close to the
area.
Western diplomats in the area
have said they expect a full-scale
renewal of hostilities now that
Perez de Cuellar's mission is com-
pleted. They also have expressed
fears of the conflict spilling over to
envelop western warships that
might get caught up in the fighting
by accident.
In its version of today's military
action, Tehran radio said tonight
that Iran's Air Force had struck
several Iraqi small naval craft in the
northern gulf and also had hit coast-
al artillery positions. .
Most recent air activity in the .
gulf conflict has involved the Iraqi
Air Force, since Iran's air wing,
mostly supplied by the United
States during the days of the late
shah, is grounded for lack of spare
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OCTOBER 16, 1987
Missile Thought to Be Silkworm Sets Ship on Fire Off Kuwait
Prkes May Vary in Areas Outside
Metropolitan Washington (See Box on A4)
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By Patrick E. Tyler
Washington Post Foreign Service
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,
Oct. 15-In its first successful mis-
sile strike on Kuwaiti territory, Iran
today blasted a 10-by-13-foot hole
in a U.S.-owned supertanker
anchored off Kuwait's main oil port,
setting the ship ablaze within sight
of four other tankers that had ar-
rived Tuesday under U.S. Navy es-
cort.
U.S. officials in the region and in
Washington said they believed the
Iranian missile was a Chinese-made
Silkworm fired from Iranian-con-
trolled territory on Iraq's Faw Pen-
insula, about 50 miles to the north.
Kuwait immediately protested
the attack to the United Nations. A
Kuwaiti Defense Ministry state-
ment said, "Kuwait holds Iran re-
sponsible for this act."
The missile attack presented the
Reagan administration with a new
threat of escalation in the Persian
Gulf, where U.S. forces last month
took military action against Iran
when a mine-laying vessel threat-
ened another anchorage in the cen-
tral gulf used by U.S.- flag oil tank-
ers and warships.
In addition, the missile struck a
few miles from where the U.S.
Navy was preparing to moor a sec-
ond ocean-going barge rigged and
armed as an offshore U.S. "fort"
near Kuwait-which has not grant-
ed U.S. basing facilities for aircraft
or warships engaged in the protec-
tion of Kuwaiti shipping.
Three other long-range missiles,
two of them identified as Silk-
worms, were fired at Kuwaiti ter-
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