Description*** Alert - Video has Graphic Content, especially for Soldiers. Scenes of dead. Background (a bird and child) sounds on this are due to open air re-recording from the Original playing on a TV. *** To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the start of the 1990-91 Gulf War, I am posting this video of the demolition of the WMD bunker complex in Khamisiyah in its entirety. The U.S., England, Russia, China and lots of other Countries sold and traded WMDs to Iraq over the decades prior to the 1990-91 Gulf War. After Saddam invaded Kuwait on 2/Aug/90, the Coalition demanded he leave Kuwait, and built up forces in Saudi Arabia to confront him, building up Troop numbers over 690,000. During the Air War, starting on 17/Jan/91, Coalition bombers destroyed a majority of those WMDs and Saddams infrastructure that he had used to make them. after the War ended on 28/Feb/91, Coalition Forces moved into areas known to be storage and forward deployment depots for WMDs, and were ordered to destroy as much of it as possible. the problem with those orders is that at NO time were those Troops warned that the munitions they were destroying were WMDs. they were led to believe they were only destroying conventional weapons and thus did not require any additional care or gear to safely carry out these orders. Just before the weapons depot at Khamisiyah was destroyed, a U.S. Army Scout found a WMD weapons cache in an area Saddam had told Schwarzkopf that there were no WMDs. the Scout developed blisters consistent with exposure to WMDs, and on 3/Mar/91 this fact was presented to Gen Schwarzkopf, who decided that the event would not stop the WMD destructions. He should have recinded his order, made Troops leave the bunker area and send in trained NBC Soldiers to re-scout the area and clear the area for other Troops to either move back in and resume their jobs or change the plans and wait until it could be done without harming the Troops. instead, Schwarzkopf ignored his advisors and demanded the demolitions proceed and thus put Troops in harms way with complete knowledge. so, the bunker and warehouse complex at Khamisiyah was blown up from 4/Mar/91 to 12/Mar/91, with Troops going into the complex, rigging a few bunkers as test firings to see how much explosive it would take per bunker, then went into the complext to see the damage done. they did this several times over the days they were there until the final day when the entire complex was to be blown up all at once. with Coalition forces video taping it from a few miles away. they watched as the smoke plume from the exploding complex drifted over them and went over several thousand Coalition Troops in the down wind path. for years after this, the Dept of Defense, CIA and NSA denied it happened until this video and D.O.D. documents proving what was on it went public. the video was copied using a video camera aimed at a TV screen, so there are alot of background sounds, bird chirping etc, but for the most part contains the original voices and actions of the Soldiers who were present for the demolitions. For more info, please see my FaceBook albums here - https://www.facebook.com/gulf.watch.9/media_set?set=vb.100000242209816&type;=2

• published: 21 Mar 2016
• views: 4453