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1990/Desert Shield
18 September (O) Twenty F-16s from the 401st Tactical
			Fighter Wing (612th Tactical Fighter Squadron,
			Torrejon AB, Spain) deployed to Incirlik AB,
			Turkey, for NATO exercise Display Determina-
			tion 90. These aircraft remained to support
			Desert Shield and be gulf war, augmenting be
			14 F-lllEs and four F-16s already there.
			
25 September (O) The UN Security Council voted to impose
			an air embargo against Iraq in an effort to
			force Iraqi forces to leave Kuwait. Calling
			the vote an act of war, Hussein threatened to
			attack Israel and oil fields in Saudi Arabia
			if economic sanctions against Iraq began to
			choke the country.
			
26 September (O) President Bush authorized the release of
			five billion barrels of oil from be national
			Strategic Petroleum Reserves in an effort to
			lower oil prices.
			
1 October 	(U) The House of Representatives voted 380 to
			29 to support President Bush's actions "with
			respect to Iraqi aggression in Kuwait."

2 October 	(U) The Senate approved a similar resolution,
			96 to 3.

12 October 	USAFE Deputy Chief of Staff for Opera-
			tions, Major General James L. Jamerson, began
			a feasibility study on deployment of 99 air
			craft to three bases in Turkey (Incirlik,
			Diyarbakir, and Konya) to function as a
			"second front. (13)

13 October 	(U) Be U.S. bad 200,000 troops in the gulf
			region.

14 October 	(U) Soviet news reported that Hussein was
			willing to leave Kuwait if Iraq obtained com-
			plete control of be Rumaila oil field and be
			two islands at the bead of be Persian Gulf.

16 October 	(U) Secretary of State Baker rejected 						territorial concessions to Iraq.

21 October 	(U) Hussein admitted economic sanctions were
			hurting be country, but vowed the sanctions
			would not drive Iraqi forces fro Kuwait.

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