It has been 30 years since Iraq's Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, setting off a string of events that still reverberate to this day
From Baghdad to Basra, Kirkuk to Babylon, Iraqis agree that the incursion"marked the beginning of the end."
The two-day operation turned into a seven-month occupation and, for many Iraqis, opened the door to 30 years of devastation that has yet to end. Then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein holds up a gun in this 1991 photograph, which was exhibited at The Leader’s Museum in Baghdad on September 24, 2002. "Iraqi troops began at 11 pm GMT to violate our northern borders, to enter Kuwait territory and to occupy positions within Kuwait," Radio Kuwait announces in its first news bulletin.The capital fell that morning and Kuwait's head of state Sheikh Jaber al Ahmad Al Sabah fled to Saudi Arabia.
On November 29, the UN Security Council authorised the use of "all necessary means" to force Iraq out of Kuwait if it did not voluntarily withdraw its troops by January 15, 1991.On January 17, after diplomatic initiatives failed, Operation Desert Storm launched with intensive bombardments of Iraq and Kuwait.The allied troops then freed the emirate in days.
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