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2023-11-21 Iraq
33 years later: story behind British people turned into human shields by Saddam Hussein
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Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iraq 

#1 testimony from all sides of the story

It is unlikely any operational covert assets, scheduled for infiltration, will be surfacing.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-21 07:18||   2023-11-21 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers. Instead, Flight 149 stopped to refuel in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops amassed on the border - delivering the passengers and crew into the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army, to be used as 'human shields' during their invasion. Why did BA flight 149 proceed with plans to refuel in Kuwait City, even as all other flights were rerouted - and even though British and American governments had clear intelligence that Saddam was about to invade? The answer lies in an exchange of favours at the highest echelons of government, and a secret, unaccountable organization - authorised by Margaret Thatcher - carrying out a 'deniable' intelligence operation to sneak in a group of intelligence offers into Kuwait aboard the flight. The plane was the 'Trojan Horse', and the plan - as well as the horrific, traumatic consequences for the civilian passengers - has been lied about, denied and covered up by successive British Governments ever since. Soon to be a major TV drama, this explosive book is written with the full cooperation of the survivors, as well as astonishing and conclusive input from a senior intelligence source. It is a story of scandal, betrayal and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of UK and US governments - which has had direct, horrifying impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today. It is high time the truth is told.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-21 07:27||   2023-11-21 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The plane was the 'Trojan Horse', and the plan - as well as the horrific, traumatic consequences for the civilian passengers - has been lied about, denied and covered up by successive British Governments ever since.

I'm inclined to think - and this is strictly IMHO - that any author who believes a professional intelligence service would use the name 'Trojan Horse' for a plan like this shouldn't be allowed out without a keeper.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-11-21 07:46||   2023-11-21 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Most likely an extraction mission gone horribly wrong. I believe some 600 Kuwaitis were taken to Baghdad and were never seen again. Later termed "The Missing."
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-21 08:23||   2023-11-21 08:23|| Front Page Top

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