"operation desert storm"
 

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[COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="4"][B][B]Chronology: Important Events[/B][/B][/SIZE][/COLOR]

1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Hussein accuses Kuwait on 17 July of oil overproduction and theft of oil from the Rumailia Oil Field.[/B][/COLOR]

1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]On 25 July US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, tells Hussien that the Iraq/Kuwaitt dispute is an Arab matter, not one that affects the United States.
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1990 [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B] :Hussein invades Kuwait on August 2. President Bush freezes Iraqi and Kuwatti assets. The United Nations calls on Hussien to withdraw.
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Aug 6,1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Economic sanctions are authorized.[/B][/COLOR]

Aug 7, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Secretery of Defense Cheny visits Suadi Arabia. The 82nd Airborne and several fighter squadrons are dispatched.[/B][/COLOR]

Aug 8. 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Iraq annexes Kuwait[/B][/COLOR]

Aug 9, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B][B]The UN declare's Iraq's annexation invalid[/B][/B][/COLOR]

Aug 12, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]The USA announces intrediction program of Irai shipping.[/B][/COLOR]

Aug 22, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]President Bush authorizes call up of reserves.[/B][/COLOR]

Aug 25, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Military interdiction authorized by the UN.[/B][/COLOR]

Sep 14, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Iraqi forces storm a number of diplomatic missions in Kuwait City.[/B][/COLOR]

Nov 8, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Bush orders aditional deployments to give "offensive option" to US forces.[/B][/COLOR]

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Nov 20, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]45 Democrats file suit in Washington to have President Bush first seek Congressional approval of military operations. (eventually thrown out)[/B][/COLOR]

Nov 22, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]President Bush visits the troops for Thanksgiving.[/B][/COLOR] [IMG]

Nov 29, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]UN Security Council authorizes force if Iraq doesnt withdraw from Kuwait by midnight EST Janu. 15[/B][/COLOR].

Nov 30, 1990: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Bush invites Tariq Aziz to Washington and offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad.[/B][/COLOR]

Jan 9, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva. The meeting is 6 hrs, but no results.[/B][/COLOR]
Jan 12, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Congress votes to allow for US troops to be used in offensive operations.[/B][/COLOR]

Jan 15, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]The deadline set by the UN Resolution 678 for Iraq to withdraw.[/B][/COLOR]
Jan 16, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B][B]First US government statement of Operation Desert-Storm made.
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[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Marlin Fitzwater announces, "The liberation of Kuwait has begun..."

The air war started Jan 17 at 2:38 a.m. (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack.

US warplanes attack Baghdad, Kuwait and other military targets in Iraq.
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Jan 17, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Iraq launches first SCUD Missle attack.[/B][/COLOR]

Jan 30, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]US forces in the Gulf exceed 500,000.[/B][/COLOR]

Feb 6, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Jordan King Hussein lashes out against American bombardments and supports Iraq.[/B][/COLOR]

Feb 13, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]US Bombers destroy a bunker complex in Baghdad with several hundred citizens inside. Nearly 300 die.
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Feb 17, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Tariq Aziz travels to Moscow to discuss possible negotiated end to the war.[/B][/COLOR]

Feb 22, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B] President Bush issues an ultimatum of Feb 23 for Iraqi troops to withdraw from Kuwait.[/B][/COLOR]

Feb 23, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Ground war begins with Marines, Army and Arab forces moving into Iraq and Kuwait.[/B][/COLOR]
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Feb 25, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Iraqi SCUD missle hits a US barracks in Saudi Arabia killing [/B][/COLOR]27.
Feb 26, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B][B]Kuwaiti resistence leaders declare they are in control of Kuwait City.[/B][/B][/COLOR]

Feb 27, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]President Bush orders a cease fire effective at midnight Kuwaiti time.[/B][/COLOR]

Mar 3, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Iraqi leaders formally accept cease fire terms.[/B][/COLOR]

Mar 4, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]Ten Allied POWs freed.[/B][/COLOR]

Mar 5, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]35 POWs released.[/B][/COLOR]

Mar 8, 1991: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]First US combat forces return home.[/B][/COLOR]



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