A proposal urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to go into exile to avert a war is gaining support among Arab Gulf states. Kuwait and Bahrain have backed a proposal made by the United Arab Emirates for the Iraqi leader to go into exile, in return for guarantees that he would not be prosecuted. Bahraini ruler Sheikh Hamad said it was "the only Arab way out to protect Iraq and spare its people", according to the Emirates official news agency. In Iraq itself, the leadership has warned it might halt the destruction of its al-Samoud II missiles if the United States continues to threaten military action without backing from the United Nations. "If it turns out that in the early stages during this month America is not going the legal way... why should we continue [destroying missiles]?" Iraqi presidential adviser General Amir al-Saadi said at a news conference. General al-Saadi said Iraq had destroyed 10 missiles since Saturday, meeting a deadline set by UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. He also said that Iraq's missing anthrax had now been accounted for with the digging up of almost 157 bombs at a site south of Baghdad