“By February 1991, American and Allied forces were victorious in liberating Kuwait. But American forces stayed on in Saudi Arabia to patrol the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq and to preserve the peace. To bin Laden, the continued American presence on Saudi soil felt like betrayal and he became increasingly vocal and hostile […]
2/15/1991
“After the 1991 Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush signed a presidential finding authorizing the CIA to topple Saddam [on February 15, 1991]…The president publicly called on Iraqis to ‘take matters into their own hands’ to remove Saddam. When the Kurds in the north and the Shiite Muslims in the south rebelled against Saddam, […]
2/14/1991
“On February 14 [1991], two weeks before the end of the [first Gulf] war, President [George H.W.] Bush had encouraged Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein. ‘There’s another way for the bloodshed to stop,’ Bush had said, ‘and that is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands,’ and […]
2/13/1991
Former Middle East Envoy Donald “Rumsfeld helped facilitate Iraq’s buying spree from American firms [in the late 1980s]. As the Los Angeles Times reported [on February 13, 1991], the U.S. government approved the sale of ‘a whopping $1.5 billion worth’ of high technology to Iraq between [March] 1985 and 1990. There was ample evidence that […]
2/4/1991
From The Riegle Report, which was delivered to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans, “On February 4, 1991, media sources reported that General Raymond Germanos, a spokesperson for the French Ministry of Defense, confirmed that chemical fallout–‘probably neurotoxins’–had been detected in small quantities, ‘a little bit everywhere,’ from […]
1/27/1991
According to The Riegle Report, which was delivered to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans, “The British Sunday Times reported on January 27, 1991, that American intelligence detected greatly increased activity at Iraq’s main chemical plant at Samarra in the last week of December [1990], and the British […]
1/21/1991
“Concerned in 1991 that the American military would be portrayed by the media as piling on in a one-sided rout, the Bush administration halted the ground war [of Operation Desert Storm] at 100 hours [on January 21, 1991], a move that allowed much of the Republican Guard in Iraq, the most effective and loyal force […]
1/19/1991
” ‘Saddam enjoys wide support among fundamentalists in the Arab world who perceive the Western presence in the region as a threat to their society and culture,’ Salah Nasrawi, a reporter with the Associated Press, wrote that same day [January 19, 1991].” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 37 […]
1/19/1991
“In January [19] 1991 a bomb exploded prematurely near the US-sponsored Thomas Jefferson Library in a suburb of Manila [Philippines]… Two sons of Hikmat Abdul Sattar, the Iraqi ambassador to Somalia, were arrested by the Philippines police and deported.” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 247 […]
1/18/1991
“On January 18 [1991], the day after the U.S. air campaign began [in Operation Desert Storm], the Iraqi missile batteries began lobbing Scud [missiles] at Israel and later at Saudi Arabia. While none hit any military targets, public anxiety in the United States and Israel about these attacks forced the White House to order NSA […]