10/31/2022 0 Comments Saddam hussein capture frontline![]() ![]() Luckily, I came out of it, but no thanks to them.” ![]() Another, Margaret Hearn, 65, said: “I trusted British Airways. ![]() “It’s the antithesis of every value you were taught, the whole essence of Western society,” he told AFP. He said in London this week that the “conspiracy of silence” about what happened had destroyed his faith in authority. One of them, Barry Manners, 55, was travelling with his then-boyfriend to Malaysia at the time. They were placed at sites throughout Iraq thought likely to be targeted by a Western military coalition. Some of the 367 passengers and crew who were taken off the Kuala Lumpur-bound jet spent more than four months in captivity. Shortly afterwards, Iraqi jets pounded the runway with bombs before tanks and troops surrounded the airport as Kuwaiti defenses capitulated. Author Stephen Davis said the plane landed despite Britain receiving US intelligence announcing the Iraqi invasion three hours and 45 minutes beforehand and the control tower in Kuwait turning away all other flights that night. A new book, “Operation Trojan Horse”, claims the authorities in London used the flight to deploy nine military intelligence officials in Kuwait and knew the civilians risked capture. ![]()
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