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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
/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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/
us/gen-h-norman-schwarzkopf-us-commander-in-gulf-war-dies-at-78.html 

 

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/
politics/chemicals-sickened-91-gulf-war-veterans-latest-study-finds.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/voices/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/01/
world/after-the-war-none-of-kuwait-s-oil-well-fires-put-out-yet.html  

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://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_Details.cfm?SDAN=DFST9207540&JPGPath=/Assets/Still/1992/Air_Force/DF-ST-92-07540.JPG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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