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SECURUTY!
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 660 condemns the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Yemen is the only Arab country that does not take part in the vote in the UNSC. President of the United States George H.W. Bush announces that U.S. Navy ships are deployed to the Persian Gulf Alaa Hussein Ali is appointed as the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Free Kuwait and Ali Hassan al-Majid as Governor of the Kuwait Governorate which is declared as the 19th Governorate of Iraq -
Names I cant pronounce!
August: Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah forms the Government in exile in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 implements international sanctions on Iraq.Yemen doesn't take part in the vote in the UNSC. United States Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney meets King of Saudi Arabia Fahd in Riyadh to discuss sending U.S. military troops to defend Saudi Arabia in case of Iraqi invasion. -
Army
15,000 U.S. troops, 32 destroyers and 100 helicopters and fighter planes arrive in Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Shield is launched by the United States United Nations Security Council Resolution 662 condemns the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait -
"Economic Warfare"
From the 28th to the 30th of may, Sadam Hussein said that oil overproduction from Kuwait and the UAE was an "economic warfare." President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and Emir of Kuwait Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meet at the Arab League Summit in Baghdad. About 100,000 Iraqi troops Invades Kuwait -
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My land tis of thee. Sweet land of Oil Crisis -
No Flying In This House! (Of Representatives)
Final Kuwaiti oil fire is extinguished Kuwait Air Force attacks Iraqi destroyer in the Gulf No-fly zone is established in Southern Iraq -
Tear Down that Oil!
Ground war begins when U.S.-led Coalition forces invaded Iraq and Kuwait at around 4 a.m. Baghdad time. Special Air Service was the first to enter Iraqi territory. 20,000 Iraqi troops surrender to the coalition. By the end of February, about 100,000 Iraqi troops will have surrendered. U.S. Marines and Saudi Arabian troops entered Kuwait City.
27 February: President Bush announced that the Liberation of Kuwait has started and the cessation of hostilities will end at 04:00 GMT the same day -
Operation Dessert Corn
U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and Kuwait. The votes were 52-47 in the U.S. Senate and 250-183 in the House of Representatives. These were the closest margins in authorizing force by the Congress since the War of 1812.
Soviet special envoy Yevgeny Primakov meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad about the possible Coalition invasion of Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein announces that Iraq will consider withdrawing its troops from Kuwait under some conditions -
James Baker meets with Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz at the Geneva Conference
United States Secretary of State James Baker meets Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz at the Geneva Conference in Hotel InterContinental without any solution. United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad without any agreement with the Government of Iraq on withdrawing from Kuwait. First U.S. government statement of Operation Desert Storm made.
