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History > 20th, early 21st century > USA > Timeline in pictures
USA, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia > Persian Gulf War 1990-1991
The Unseen Gulf War Peter Turnley added 13.9.2004 http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html
The Unseen Gulf War Peter Turnley added 13.9.2004 http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html
The Unseen Gulf War Peter Turnley added 13.9.2004 http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt03.html
Kuwait From a 1991 photo essay entitled Kuwait - The Cost of War
Photograph: John Reardon
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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/26/
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.
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_ 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
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/28/general-norman-schwarzkopf-dies-stormin-norman
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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,423247,00.html http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/gulfwar/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/ http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,423247,00.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/voices/
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/01/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dZqL5hIcs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg9oVhGtlVM
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://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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