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Disclosing USA's Warcrimes In Iraq’s Desert Storm
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When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, global condemnation and sanctions followed, but when those failed to stop the Iraqi dictator in his tracks, a US led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm to stop his invasion by force.
For 6 weeks between January 17th and February 28th 1991, coalition forces descended on Iraq, using devastating air power to shatter Saddam’s regime and force him out of Kuwait.
The campaign was a success, but it did not come without cost or controversy. Today on A Day In History, we’ll look at the darker side of Desert Storm: at the suffering of innocent civilians caught up in a war they never chose, at the hundreds who died from the coalition's celebrated ‘precision bombs’, and the Iraqi troops who died by the hundreds as they tried to retreat.
Desert Storm launched on January 17th 1991 and was primarily an air campaign. Conscious of the possibility of civilian casualties as their forces descended upon Iraq, coalition forces had a long list of ‘no fire’ targets to minimise civilian casualties which included schools, hospitals, mosques, and historical sites, but the realities of war meant that these places were never 100% safe.
US officials pitched it as a new modern war where sophisticated targeting systems and precision guided munitions would make collateral damage a thing of the past. Such a promise cared more about favourable media coverage than the reality of waging war in a populated country, and it set an impossibly high moral standard that coalition forces were doomed to miss.
These high-flying promises were shattered almost immediately. On the first day of Desert Storm, an air strike on the Diwaniyah telephone exchange went awry and the bombs instead hit a hotel and apartment complex nearby, killing 15 civilians. On January 20th, at least 12 people were killed and 50 houses were damaged in the town of Najaf when bombs again went off-target. Similar episodes happened across Iraq almost every day of the war.
Missile attacks had no less potential to go wrong either. The US deployed its advanced Tomahawk missile at $2 million dollars a shot, counting on their accuracy and high-yield to strike targets in the first 2 weeks of Desert Storm. On February 1st, 6 of these missiles were launched at the Al Rashid Air Base near Baghdad where intelligence sources believed Saddam was keeping chemical weapons. Unfortunately, at least one of the missiles went off target and came down in the Karada neighbourhood where 18 people, including 7 children, were wounded or killed. It ended up being the last tomahawk missile attack of the war as US leadership decided they were too expensive and too unreliable to be appropriate for further use in Iraq.
#operationdesertstorm #usairaqwar #history #desertstorm
Sources:
Rick Atkinson, Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, (1993)
Felicity Arbuthnot, ‘The Ameriya Shelter - St Valentine’s Day Massacre’, Uruk Net, 13th February 2007, web.archive.org/web/20110716220215/www.uruknet.de/?p=m30603&hd=&size=1&l=e
Anthony Tucker-Jones, The Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991, (2014)
Human Rights Watch, Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War, (1991)
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    Free 🇵🇸 PALESTINE

  • @lourdesbeal4202
    @lourdesbeal4202 32 хвилини тому

    Wow more jew hate desquised like a distorted viewed history post anti israel hate god will judge you and every one with every lie you tell to the world

  • @badrulamin2161
    @badrulamin2161 40 хвилин тому

    It's history and we need to know the truth. Read between the lines as I didn't learn history in school. Ask Me about mr henny I'm an A*. But that's not our history. Lol

  • @yetresa
    @yetresa 50 хвилин тому

    Never forget its african kings who accepted to trade their own poeple for money power and JEWELRY !!! :)

  • @sumeerkhan368
    @sumeerkhan368 Годину тому

    Thank you telling about all this to world. 🎉🎉🎉

  • @Ssiico
    @Ssiico Годину тому

    Cudo nema croata u komentarima!!!

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 Годину тому

    Just blame one person who is more higher authority which is Henry Kissinger.

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    @user-dj6rz8vv9c Годину тому

    ITS CRAZY HOW YOU OUTLINED EVERYWHERE AS ISRAEL INCLUDING THE GAZA STRIP YOU NONCE

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    @user-dj6rz8vv9c Годину тому

    ARABS ARE SEMETIC PEOPLE ARABIC IS A SEMETIC LANGUAGE

  • @ramonapetermann9585
    @ramonapetermann9585 Годину тому

    I can only recommend the movie "Men Behind the Sun". It's a film about unit 731 in Japan, where Japanese doctors made horrible experiments to people of all origins. Nowadays nobody talks about these bastards, but always talks about the nasty Germans.

  • @merlecharge6813
    @merlecharge6813 Годину тому

    SHAMELESS ISLAM

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 Годину тому

    Fun fact, the Ottoman colonialism is longer than the European colonization and was more brutal than Belgian colonizer.

  • @Abs-tz8dl
    @Abs-tz8dl Годину тому

    African countries are massively slave nation and dictatorship right now, with a few human right or any democracy

  • @riaagarwal6840
    @riaagarwal6840 Годину тому

    Thanks for the learning

  • @akimizuakira
    @akimizuakira Годину тому

    i'm still sad by the fact that some portion of younger generation are still putting strong emphasis on anti-PKI beliefs, even after 20 years since the Reformation. i don't know what your grandparents 've been told you to, but please, see the other side of coin. it's not mandatory to always hate a certain side on everything.

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 2 години тому

    Turks : "We never do that and it is simply not true." *As they casually deporting every Armenians and the Greeks into Gaza* ( Edit: 1 ) It's illegal to use a DNA test of you where you actually came from in Turkey :(

  • @willvangaal8412
    @willvangaal8412 2 години тому

    The religion of peace hahahahaha what a joke that islam .

  • @phillychannel394
    @phillychannel394 2 години тому

    Communist Russia is really evil.

  • @Swatiska
    @Swatiska 2 години тому

    My grandfather has said "that I saw how many people died in a war, still I survive just to see many more people died " .....

  • @markusmeldre
    @markusmeldre 2 години тому

    This is a very good video, focusing on the plight thar russia has brought to Chechnya. It's a shame the comment section is swarmed by russki trolls though

  • @dxpawn
    @dxpawn 2 години тому

    No Vietnam mentioned? Maybe it's because their invasion of Vietnam was short, but they did some pretty unhinged things here too. My mother and her siblings had to smear dirt and feces all over their bodies so when the Japanese came they wouldn't be abducted. And there are stories of the Japanese cutting a pregnant mother's belly open and eating the babies alive while her family can only watch in silence too...

  • @TheHk1966
    @TheHk1966 2 години тому

    I’m surprised the Mossad hasn’t “reached out” to convince the authors of this video to take it down

  • @Pipimaking
    @Pipimaking 2 години тому

    I am from Cambodia my grandma was in the khmer rouge year her parents didn't make it but what's my grandma made it now she's still alive safe and sound she is now 64 year old when the Khmer rouge started my grandma was only 12 to 13 years old😢

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    @Hers_owners_record 3 години тому

    why is boko haram?

  • @Jasondram
    @Jasondram 3 години тому

    This video have to viral, so that people know how brutal are Japanese I got goosebumps when I saw this video 😢😢 The karma is exist........

  • @break3522
    @break3522 3 години тому

    as an indonesian myself THIS IS ALL FAKE AND ARE JUST BLATANT LIES

  • @hbeslanb
    @hbeslanb 3 години тому

    Take it to the court with your evidence of genocide or shut up.

  • @martinarreguy2984
    @martinarreguy2984 3 години тому

    All the superpowers do this, this is standard operating procedures for Corporations/married to the deep state to take what they want.

  • @Rabbi_Adolf_Shayevich-zr7me
    @Rabbi_Adolf_Shayevich-zr7me 3 години тому

    I think you are just trying to apologize for communism while saying it's not typical communism...that's just communist rhetoric, always when they fail they say that, bUt iT wAsN'T rEaL gOmMunIsM....and they always fail, always have and always will fail, because their sick ideology cannot put into practice and it is against our nature.

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    @DD-cq5kz 3 години тому

    Islam killed and killing billions around the World, they are killed here. Karma is communal

  • @Rabbi_Adolf_Shayevich-zr7me
    @Rabbi_Adolf_Shayevich-zr7me 4 години тому

    What is with that prostitution in Japan at 2min.? Is North Korea facilitating that or what's that relation?

  • @HiVisl
    @HiVisl 4 години тому

    This is absolutely horrifying and so terribly sad 😭

  • @vamp8903
    @vamp8903 4 години тому

    What men have done to our world ...such violent acts

  • @Deeznutz002
    @Deeznutz002 4 години тому

    Religion 😂 Armenia is one of the homes of Christianity. The Ottoman empire is gone!

  • @Deeznutz002
    @Deeznutz002 4 години тому

    Religion 😂

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    @whyosrs9863 4 години тому

    A day in history you guys are zionists

  • @bastymanguy
    @bastymanguy 4 години тому

    Ya more young people have to understand that black African tribe leaders or authorities were responsible for most of the slave apprehension. The white man didn’t show up and travel inland on foot or by horse to apprehend blacks for slaves from villages. The slaves were already caught for the whites once they showed up on boats. Only some Portuguese were responsible for snatching up Africans back to their ships.

  • @DfrUBCxgs4eAMepTu5ZdK3wgRKBd6B
    @DfrUBCxgs4eAMepTu5ZdK3wgRKBd6B 4 години тому

    Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated in 1963 (Nov 2), not 1973.

  • @THEAG28011966
    @THEAG28011966 4 години тому

    Demonising whole nation of Croatians is a hate speech! There’s lots of lies here. Let’s speak of Nedic Free of Jews Serbia who were the first to boost to Hitler of killing all Jews in Serbia. Serbs Chetniks also massacres and murdered lots of Croats in Croatia and Bosnia. All wars starts from Serbs traying to take over another countries!

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    @haslanaslan8041 4 години тому

    😂😂all lies stop vomiting lies don’t be scared we are neighbors

  • @user-rj5sd1zy6e
    @user-rj5sd1zy6e 5 годин тому

    Not Rusian ortodox. Serbian ortodox church

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    @ankitkumargupta546 5 годин тому

    US is equally responsible for genocide

  • @balaurgod
    @balaurgod 5 годин тому

    Japan may be the 2nd place most fucked up country in history

  • @infinitymarketing3410
    @infinitymarketing3410 6 годин тому

    Leftists & Muslims will never talk about (infact rejoice) genocides and war crimes committed by muslim armies

  • @ShinichiKudoQatnip
    @ShinichiKudoQatnip 6 годин тому

    It feels so fresh to see a video not full of ai generated shitty images. Thank you for making this.

  • @infinitymarketing3410
    @infinitymarketing3410 6 годин тому

    As an Indian I stand with Armenia...no stupid leftists will talk about those poor Armenians

  • @juangarcia-kq8zp
    @juangarcia-kq8zp 6 годин тому

    Israel is the enemy of truth justice and freedom.

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    @juangarcia-kq8zp 6 годин тому

    It should be obvious to everyone that the <<<__>>> lobby monopolizes our media and has corrupted our USA government. <<< CENSORED BY THE FOREIGN GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS CONQUERED THE USA AND ROBBED US OF OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH ! >>>

  • @joeneil5485
    @joeneil5485 6 годин тому

    This is the way Trump and MAGA want Amerika to be...