Small Wars Journal

Desert Storm Diary - Kuwait Remembers

Sun, 01/17/2016 - 1:19am

Desert Storm Diary - Kuwait Remembers by Frank Gardner, BBC

On the morning of 17 January 1991, exactly 25 years ago, Kuwaitis woke up to the news that the war to liberate their country, after five months of Iraqi occupation, had begun.

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner interviewed Khaled Al-Sabah, who stayed on in Kuwait throughout the occupation, helping the resistance under an assumed name, about what he remembers of the day the US-led Operation Desert Storm began…

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