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Re: Image comments for On the road to Basra, April 1991.
Posted by: 90130_
Date: 10/12/2007 11:36PM
Talk to someone who was there about what really happened.
Orders were given to attack and immobilize the lead and trailing vehicles of the convoy of escaping Iraqi Republican Guard units and army conscripts, which stretched more than 20 miles. Everything in between was obliterated. I know because I was flying in the first wave of the attack.
After action cleanup revealed hundreds of small arms and munitions caches, explosive and incendiary materials, RPGs, and stolen Kuwaiti possessions.
Regardless of how you all feel about this, the army was all but neutralized and rendered incapable to regroup and pose a threat later.
The attack on the convoy does remain to this day the single most controversial act of the 1990-1991 Gulf war.
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