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Air Strikes on Baghdad

United States of America · Warfare / Gulf War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1991Date range
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Chronological records

1991

George Herbert Walker Bush17 January 1991

Baghdad · Warfare / Gulf War, 1st

Bush authorises strikes against Iraqi command, communications and air-defence facilities around Baghdad.

Names involved

George Herbert Walker Bush

Provenance

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