BOMBS ON BAGHDAD
1991 allied jets bombed Baghdad as war broke out early today. In spite of desperate last-minute peach efforts, the UN deadline for Iraq's Saddam Hussein to withdraw his troop from Kuwait expired at midnight without an Iraqi response. The action started when US warship in the Gulf launched Cruise missiles at Iraqi targets. In the next four hours allied aircraft flew 400 missions against 60 targets in Iraq. UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar, President Mubarak of Egypt and King Fahad of Saudi Arabia all sent urgent appeals to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein yesterday. Perez de Cuellar promised that if the present crisis was averted concrete progress immediately be made on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian question, which Saddam consistently linked to his invasion of Kuwait. The appeals were fruitless.
1991 allied jets bombed Baghdad as war broke out early today. In spite of desperate last-minute peach efforts, the UN deadline for Iraq's Saddam Hussein to withdraw his troop from Kuwait expired at midnight without an Iraqi response. The action started when US warship in the Gulf launched Cruise missiles at Iraqi targets. In the next four hours allied aircraft flew 400 missions against 60 targets in Iraq. UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar, President Mubarak of Egypt and King Fahad of Saudi Arabia all sent urgent appeals to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein yesterday. Perez de Cuellar promised that if the present crisis was averted concrete progress immediately be made on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian question, which Saddam consistently linked to his invasion of Kuwait. The appeals were fruitless.
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