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one instant, so long as we know that capability is there, until we're sure this
whole thing is over.
   The helicopters are another very interesting story.     We know where the
helicopters were. They traditionally put their helicopter near some of their other
outfits, and we tracked them very carefully.   But what happened is despite the
fact that Iraqis claim that we indiscriminately bombed civilian targets, they took
their helicopters and dispersed them all over the place in civilian residential
areas just as fast as they possibly could. But quite a few of them were damaged
on airfields, those that we could take on airfields. The rest of them were
dispersed.

   Q. General, I'd like to ask you, you mentioned about the Saudi army forces.
Could you elaborate about their role, on the first day?
   A: The Saudi army, as I said, the first thing they did was they--we had this
Bahrain attack that was going through here, and of course we were concerned
about the forces over here again, hitting the flanks. That's one of the things you
just don't want to have happen to your advancing forces.
   So this force over here, the eastern task force, had to attack up the coast to
pin the enemy in this location.  The forces--again the Saudi forces over in this
area were attacked through here, again, to pin all the forces in this area because
we didn't want those forces moving in this direction, and we didn't want those
forces moving in that direction.
   It's a tough mission, okay, because these people were being required to fight
the kind of fight that the Iraqis wanted them to fight.  It's a very, very tough
mission.
   I would point out, it wasn't only the Saudis. I tell you it was the Saudis, it
was the Kuwaitis, it was the Egyptians, it was the Syrians, it was the Emiris
from the United Arab Emirates, it was the Bahrainis, it was the Qataris, and it
was the Omanis, and I apologize if I've left anybody out.     But it was a great
coalition of people, all of whom did a fine job.

   Q. Is there anything left of the Scud or chemical capability?
   A: I don't know. I don't know.    But we're sure going to find out if there's
anything-you know, the Scuds that were being fired against Saudi Arabia came
from right here, okay.   So obviously, one of the things we're going to check on
when we finally get to that location is what's left.

   Q. General, could you tell us in of the air war of how effective you think it
was in speeding up the ground campaign? Because obviously, it's gone much
faster than you ever expected? And ... how effective do you think the AirLand
battle campaign has been?
   A: The air war, obviously, was very, very effective.    You just can't predict
about things like that.  You can make your best estimates at the outset as to how
quickly you will accomplish certain objectives.    But, of course, a lot of that
depends on the enemy and how resilient the enemy is, how tough they are, how
well dug in they are.