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To: RossVolunteer

Also in January 1991 was the event in the Philippines:

....1,400 terrorists made their way to Baghdad in the final months of 1990 as he prepared to face the coalition assembled by the United States to oust him from Kuwait. He dispatched others to attack U.S. interests around the world. On January 18, 1991, one day after the Gulf war began, an Iraqi terrorist posing as a day laborer managed to plant 26 sticks of TNT in a flower box below a window of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Jakarta, Indonesia. The dynamite wasn’t completely buried, and a gardener found it before the bomb exploded. The following day in the Philippines, two Iraqis blew themselves up in a plot known to CIA veterans as Operation Dogmeat, a botched attempt to bomb the U.S. Information Service headquarters at the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Manila. The failed attack on the U.S. government-run center received the active support of the Iraqi ambassador to the Philippines....—— American Spectator


11 posted on 07/25/2022 9:39:26 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Also in January 1991, Iraqi and Chinese papers gladly reported that al Dhouri, Saddam’s red headed general, was dead.


12 posted on 07/25/2022 9:43:14 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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