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The Secret of Flight 149: Spies, Lies and Saddam's Human Shields

By (author) Stephen Davis

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When Saddam Hussein moved his Iraqi army into Kuwait in August 1990, the First Gulf War was triggered. As the invasion began, all flights bound for Kuwait City were re-routed. All except BA Flight 149. Its mostly British and American passengers and crew found themselves in the midst of a bloody battlefield. The British and American heads of state had a problem. How to extricate their citizens without loss of life? Diplomacy, or war? This is the little-known story of how a passenger flight risked the lives of 387 civilians. It is a hard-hitting investigation into the failures of the British government to protect its citizens and a powerful account of survival and the battle for justice.

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