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    Post by Rocky Fri 04 Aug 2023, 4:15 am

    US report: Saddam's invasion of Kuwait opened the door to regional devastation that is still going on




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    Shafaq News/ The American "Media Line" website recalled the memory of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, 33 years ago, considering that the memory sheds light on this war that not only changed the Middle East and the world, but also laid the foundations for the conflicts that took place later in the region.




    The American website specialized in Middle East news, in a report entitled "33 years since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait: a turning point in the Gulf", translated by Shafaq News Agency, reviewed the events of the early hours of the morning on August 2, 1990, when Iraqi forces penetrated north Kuwait, with a number of forces exceeding 100,000 soldiers supported by 700 tanks, while the Kuwaiti radio announced, to the sound of national anthems, the start of the invasion and urged the Kuwaitis to defend their country.

    Oil and the international balance

    But the invading forces soon overcame the Kuwaitis, whose forces retreated towards Saudi Arabia after a few hours, while the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, his family, and officials fled and took refuge in the Kingdom as well, while the Iraqi forces formed a local government and Saddam Hussein threatened to turn Kuwait into a graveyard if any country dared others to challenge his control over them.

    Because of the invasion, and in light of the sharp condemnations from all over the world, and the move to isolate Iraq politically and economically, global oil prices rose, as by annexing Kuwait, Iraq controlled about 20% of the world's oil reserves.

    The ruling in Baghdad had accused the Kuwaiti authorities of flooding the world market with oil, and demanding compensation for the field that Kuwait exploited, despite the existence of a dispute over it between the two countries.

    An invasion that brought regional devastation

    The report pointed out that the UN Security Council imposed on August 6 a global ban on trade exchange with Iraq and demanded its immediate withdrawal from Kuwait.

    The report considered that the invasion not only changed the Middle East and the world, but also opened the door to decades of destruction in the region, which is still suffering from the effects of the unwise decision on the part of Saddam Hussein.

    He explained that in the face of the supposed threat posed by Saddam Hussein to Saudi Arabia after his invasion of Kuwait and his possible control of most of the world's oil reserves, US President George H. W. At the request of King Fahd, while Saddam mobilized 300 thousand soldiers in Iraq.

    Desert Storm

    After the UN Security Council issued, on November 29, 1990, a resolution authorizing the use of "all necessary means" to force Iraq out of Kuwait if its forces did not withdraw by January 15, 1991, Saddam confirmed his refusal to withdraw his forces from Kuwait, which he declared to be a governorate. Iraqi 19.

    The report indicated that Bush deliberately formed an international coalition that included about a million soldiers, with the Americans as its main pillar, with the aim of imposing the application of the UN Security Council's ultimatum, adding that after the expiration of the deadline, and the failure of diplomatic initiatives, Operation Desert Storm was launched on January 17, 1991. With intensive bombing of targets in Iraq and Kuwait, the military operation ended on February 27, 1991, 100 days after the ground attack that forced Saddam to withdraw Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

    However, the report said that Iraq agreed to all United Nations resolutions, after losing thousands of military and civilian casualties and severe damage to its infrastructure, while Saddam's forces left complete destruction in Kuwait's neighborhoods, hundreds of Kuwaitis were killed or tortured, and about 700 oil wells were set on fire.

    Arab division

    The report concluded by saying that this invasion caused division in the Arab countries, as the Egyptian and Syrian armies participated in the international coalition, despite its condemnation by other Arab countries.

    The report added that this Gulf War paved the way for a greater US security and military presence in the region, which reached its climax with the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which led to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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