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Persian Gulf War 1990-1991
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The Unseen Gulf War
Peter Turnley
added 13 September 2004
https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html

The Unseen Gulf War
Peter Turnley
added 13 September 2004
https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html

The Unseen Gulf War
Peter Turnley
added 13 September 2004
https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html

Kuwait
From a 1991 photo essay entitled Kuwait - The Cost of War
Photograph:
John Reardon
(1951-2018)
The photography of John Reardon
The photographer John Reardon
has died at
the age of 66.
Throughout his long and distinguished career
he produced memorable images from home and
abroad.
Here is a selection of his work
G
Sat 28 Apr 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/28
/the-photography-of-john-reardon

Kuwait, 1991
Next to a tank destroyed by US aerial bombing,
a dead Iraqi soldier is mummified
by drops of oil escaping
from wells,
set on fire by the soldier’s unit before it retreated
Photojournalist Abbas - a career in pictures
The Iranian-born photographer Abbas,
who covered wars and revolutions across the world,
has died aged 74.
Abbas joined Magnum in 1981
and covered conflicts and unrest
in Bangladesh, Vietnam,
the Middle East, Iran, Chile and Cuba
as well as documenting South Africa under apartheid.
‘He was a godfather
for an entire generation of young
photographers,’
Magnum’s president, Thomas Dworzak, said
Warning:
contains images some readers may find disturbing
A Abbas / Magnum Photos
G
Thu 26 Apr 2018 13.26 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/26/
photojournalist-abbas-a-career-in-pictures
Kuwait First
Gulf War /
Desert Storm 1991
Iraq
fails to comply with a UN resolution
ordering it to pull out.
A US-led and UN-backed bombing aerial campaign
begins in Kuwait and Iraq.
By late February
allied forces reach Kuwait
City.
Iraqi forces torch oil wells
as they pull out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/2391051.stm

Demolished vehicles line Highway 80,
also known as the "Highway
of Death",
the route fleeing Iraqi forces took
as they retreated fom Kuwait
during
Operation Desert Storm.
Source
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_
Details.cfm?SDAN=DFST9209592&JPGPath=/Assets/1992/Air_Force/DF-ST-92-09592.JPG
Date 18 Apr 1991
Author TECH. SGT. JOE COLEMAN
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Demolished_vehicles_line_Highway_80_on_18_Apr_1991.jpg
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Display_CD.cfm
check primary source

DN-ST-91-11209
U.S. Forces in DESERT STORM CD Collection
source?
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1991/Navy/DN-ST-91-11209.JPEG
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Display_CD.cfm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/861164.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3751072.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/2391051.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1119034.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1118611.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/january/17/
newsid_2641000/2641621.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/
iraq_events/html/kuwait_invasion.stm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/20/
world/middleeast/20110120-archive.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_(album)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/
arts/design/iraq-wars-art-momaps1-review.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/
superpowers-unite-over-iraq-invasion-of-kuwait-1990
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/
us/gen-h-norman-schwarzkopf-us-commander-in-gulf-war-dies-at-78.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/28/
general-norman-schwarzkopf-dies-stormin-norman
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/
world/middleeast/victory-over-iraq-in-1991-was-swift-but-flawed.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/16/
gulf-war-20-years-on
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/16/
gulf-war-anniversary-kuwait
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/25/
iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/02/
opinion/fighting-the-first-gulf-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/
politics/chemicals-sickened-91-gulf-war-veterans-latest-study-finds.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/voices/
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/18/
world/during-gulf-war-polish-agents-saved-6-american-spies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/
world/gulf-war-is-said-to-have-cost-the-region-676-billion-in-1990-91.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/08/
world/gulf-war-s-cost-to-arabs-estimated-at-620-billion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/
world/us-army-buried-iraqi-soldiers-alive-in-gulf-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/16/
business/economic-scene-the-broad-impact-of-the-gulf-war.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/06/23/
allied-air-war-struck-broadly-in-iraq/e469877b-b1c1-44a9-bfe7-084da4e38e41/
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/
weekinreview/the-world-displaced-in-the-gulf-war-5-million-refugees.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/05/
world/after-the-war-long-series-of-military-decisions-led-to-gulf-war-news-censorship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/01/
world/after-the-war-none-of-kuwait-s-oil-well-fires-put-out-yet.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/11/
us/after-war-war-stories-old-stories-with-new-twists-told-persian-gulf-troops.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/10/
world/after-the-war-politics-another-gulf-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/03/
books/desert-storm-and-then-what-a-reader-s-guide.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dZqL5hIcs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg9oVhGtlVM
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/feb/28/
kuwait-iraq-united-states-george-bush - 28 February 1991
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/
magazine/war-torn.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/
magazine/war-torn.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/22/
world/war-in-the-gulf-diplomatic-chronology-of-the-gulf-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/20/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/15/
opinion/blind-spots-in-the-gulf-the-real-desert-storm.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/12/
us/war-in-the-gulf-the-press-correspondents-protest-pool-system.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/10/
world/war-gulf-us-commanders-reported-call-for-3-week-delay-before-ground-offensive.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/07/
world/war-in-the-gulf-jordan-jordanian-ends-neutrality-assailing-allied-war-effort.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/06/
nyregion/war-in-the-gulf-the-arabs-war-puts-strain-on-north-africa.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/06/
nyregion/war-in-the-gulf-the-white-house-excerpts-from-talk-by-bush-on-gulf-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/04/
world/war-in-the-gulf-huge-morocco-march-supports-iraq-in-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/
us/war-in-the-gulf-antiwar-rallies-day-of-protests-is-the-biggest-yet.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/
world/war-in-the-gulf-europe-gulf-fighting-shatters-europeans-fragile-unity.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/23/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/
world/war-in-the-gulf-turkey-turkey-s-role-in-air-assault-sets-off-fear-of-retaliation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/
world/war-in-the-gulf-war-summary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/17/
us/war-gulf-president-transcript-comments-bush-air-strikes-against-iraqis.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/17/
nyregion/news-summary-549591.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/17/
world/war-in-the-gulf-the-general-a-fire-of-determination.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/17/
world/war-gulf-overview-us-allies-open-air-war-iraq-bomb-baghdad-kuwaiti-targets-no.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/11/
world/confrontation-gulf-war-peace-sampling-debate-capitol-hill.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/14/
world/ethiopia-wooed-as-ally-by-us-in-gulf-crisis.html
https://www.newsweek.com/bushs-latest-demonology-205678 - November 11, 1990
https://apnews.com/article/c456d72625fba6c742d17f1699b18a16 - November 1,
1990
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/28/
weekinreview/the-world-un-sponsorship-of-a-war-in-the-gulf-is-no-simple-matter.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/01/
world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-jordan-attacks-pace-of-refugees-exit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/29/
world/confrontation-gulf-war-may-be-hand-but-bedouins-find-their-desert-peaceful.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/24/
world/confrontation-gulf-iraqis-threaten-attack-saudis-israelis-if-nation-strangled.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/
world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-excerpts-from-iraqi-document-on-meeting-with-us-envoy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/
world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-us-gave-iraq-little-reason-not-to-mount-kuwait-assault.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/18/
world/confrontation-gulf-air-force-chief-dismissed-for-remarks-gulf-plan-cheney-cites.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/06/
world/confrontation-gulf-excerpts-iraqi-statement-declaring-war-right-against-wrong.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/29/
world/confrontation-gulf-neutralizing-iraq-s-threat-for-bush-toppling-hussein-isn-t.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/10/
world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-iran-s-quandary-yesterday-s-foe-today-s-friend.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/08/
world/the-iraqi-invasion-us-and-the-soviets-as-allies-it-s-the-first-time-since-1945.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/05/
world/the-iraqi-invasion-us-says-bush-was-surprised-by-the-iraqi-strike.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/03/
world/the-iraqi-invasion-in-two-arab-capitals-gunfire-and-fear-victory-and-cheers.html
10 October 1990
Nayirah "testimony"
A little reportorial investigation
would have done a great service
to the democratic process.
Americans would have been interested
to know the identity of "Nayirah,"
the 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who shocked
the Congressional Human Rights Caucus
on Oct. 10, 1990,
when she tearfully asserted
that she had watched
15 infants being taken from incubators
in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City
by Iraqi soldiers who
"left the babies on the cold floor to die."
The chairmen of the Congressional group,
Tom Lantos, a California Democrat,
and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican,
explained that Nayirah's identify
would be kept secret
to protect her family from reprisals
in occupied Kuwait.
There was a better reason
to protect her from exposure:
Nayirah, her real name, is the daughter
of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.,
Saud Nasir al-Sabah.
Such a pertinent fact might have led
to impertinent demands
for proof of Nayirah's whereabouts
in August and September of 1990,
when she said she witnessed the atrocities,
as well as corroboration of her charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/06/
opinion/remember-nayirah-witness-for-kuwait.html
The girl, whose testimony helped build
support for the Persian Gulf war,
was identified only as "Nayirah,"
supposedly to protect family members
still in Kuwait.
Another piece of information
was also withheld:
that she is not just some Kuwaiti
but the daughter
of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.
Saddam Hussein
committed plenty of atrocities,
but not, apparently, this one.
The teen-ager's accusation,
at first verified by Amnesty International,
was later refuted by that group
as well as by other independent
human rights monitors.
But the issue is not so much
the accuracy of the testimony
as the identity and undisclosed bias
of the witness.
How did the girl's testimony come about?
It was arranged by the big public relations
firm
of Hill & Knowlton on behalf of a client,
the Kuwaiti-sponsored Citizens for a Free
Kuwait,
which was then pressing Congress
for military intervention.
Mr. Lantos knew the girl's identity
but concealed it from the public
and from the other caucus co-chairman,
Representative John E. Porter of Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/
opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/
opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/12/
world/congressman-says-girl-was-credible.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/06/
opinion/remember-nayirah-witness-for-kuwait.html
2 August 1990
Iraq invades and then annexes Kuwait
The emir and cabinet flee to Saudi Arabia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/2391051.stm
Saddam Hussein accused
Kuwait of keeping oil
prices low
and pumping more than its quota
from the two
countries’ shared oil field.
Iraq had never accepted
its British-drawn
borders,
which established Kuwait
as a separate entity.
And when Kuwait refused
to waive Iraq’s war
debts,
Saddam Hussein invaded.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_events/html/kuwait_invasion.stm

ID: DF-ST-92-07540 Service Depicted:
Other Service Command Shown: D0206
Operation / Series: DESERT SHIELD
Secretary of Defense
Richard Cheney
meets with
Crown Prince Abdullah
to discuss U.S. military intervention
against Saddam Hussein
during Operation Desert Shield.
Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. JOSE LOPEZ JR.
Date Shot: 1 Dec 1990
U.S. Forces in Desert Storm CD
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_Details.cfm?SDAN=DFST9207540&JPGPath=/
Assets/Still/1992/Air_Force/DF-ST-92-07540.JPG - broken link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/
king-abdullah-of-saudi-arabia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2/
newsid_2526000/2526937.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/
iraq_events/html/kuwait_invasion.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/2391051.stm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/dick-cheney
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/timothy-james-mcveigh
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