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BRIEF: The Pentagon has asked a Houston oil well fire-fighting company, Cudd Pressure Control, to prepare a rapid response team to Iraq. Jeff Miller, marketing director for Cudd:
"We are in contact with the government, actually, yeah the Department of Defense, and have been in contact with them for the past month." U.S. Military officials have reported Iraqi troop movements around two main oilfields - Kirkuk and Rumaila. Military officials said that mines could be laid around these oil wells in preparation for a doomsday act of defiance against the United States. Millers explains: "If he decides to blow up his own wells, which indications that we've read about in the press are is that he's already got these things booby-trapped, and wired and ready to go, then the oil from these wells is going to flow into Tigres and the Euphrates, which is the only fresh water source in the region. And not only rom a frirefighting standpoint is It disatrous, because it means we won't have water to put out the fires, but that provides drinking water, I mean you're talking about major fish kills, loivestock kills, crops, starvation..." And U.S. military analysts say the plan is to control the main oilfields early in the campaign preventing any defensive moves by Saddam Hussein - including setting fire to his oil wells. Cudd also hopes this does not happen. "I mean the whole reason we exist is to protect the environment. I mean, we as our company cut, to put out fires, to stop oil leaks, to stop oil spills and things like that." Were Mr. Hussein to set his oil wells on fire this time, the environmental disaster would dwarf past problems that resulted from Kuwaiti oil-well fires in the first Gulf War. "If he sets his fields on fire even, the smoke clouds, the cloud of burning hydrocarbons, due to prevailing winds, would head toward Russia and points East of there, which would make it almost constant night time." Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence sources have acknowledged that it would be difficult to predict just what Saddam Hussein would do. Charles E. Snider & Jackson Allers, KPFT News, Houston.
E-mail Charles Snider & Jackson Allers at charles@77002.com & jacksonallers@hotmail.com respectively.
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