The Highway of Death is the name given to the horrific war crime perpetrated by American and Canadian forces on the night of the 26-27th February 1991, during the Persian Gulf War. Massive columns of Iraqi forces (including Kuwaiti hostages and civilian refugees) retreating from Kuwait in compliance with the original UN Resolution 660 were incinerated and roasted alive by a combination of air and ground forces in a test of thermobaric weaponry - explosives that work by utilising oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense, high-temperature explosion. The carnage and horror was such that George Bush Sr was forced to declare an end to the war hours later. Like the World War II Dresden atrocity, the death toll was covered up and reduced to a small fraction of the actual one. BBC estimated at the time that thousands were killed in the 7-mile-long (11km) convoy, with some independent estimates in the tens of thousands. In an additional event that happened along side and was suppressed all together, a platoon of US Bradley Fighting Vehicles massacred a group of more than 350 disarmed Iraqi soldiers who had escaped the highway and surrendered at a checkpoint. The US Military Intelligence personnel who had been manning the checkpoint narrowly escaped with their own lives - they were fired on by the same vehicles and managed to flee by car. Iraq had committed the cardinal sin of attacking Israel during the war, and so there was a terrible price to pay. -The Hidden World
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:04:46 +0000
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