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	Gulf War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States.
		The Gulf War was a heavily televised war.
		A crucial result of the Persian Gulf War, according to Gilles Kepel, was the sharp revival in Islamic extremism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_War (7733 words)

	MSN Encarta - Persian Gulf War
		Introduction; Causes of the War; Iraq Invades; The Coalition Attacks by Air; Land War; Consequences of the War
		Persian Gulf War, conflict beginning in August 1990, when Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait.
		The Iraqis argued that since the UN had not forced Israel to leave Arab territories it occupied during and after the Six-Day War of 1967, it should not force Iraq to leave Kuwait.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551555/Persian_Gulf_War.html (2049 words)

	Persian Gulf War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The War The war in the Persian Gulf was a war of religious fervor, and cruel leadership.
		Section 1 The Gulf War was the arena for the first battlefield use of armor-piercing munitions and reinforced tank armor incorporating depleted uranium (DU).
		Drug Czar Up in Arms Over Gulf War Inquiry (washingtonpost.com) Part of what Hersh is examining, according to McCaffrey and memos and letters from eight current and former military officers, are allegations that the 24th Infantry Division, under McCaffrey's leadership, committed war crimes during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
	www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu /depts/edu/sift/sift00/persiangulf.html (334 words)

	Persian Gulf Wars. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The First Persian Gulf War, Jan.–Feb., 1991, was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia.
		Although the war was a decisive military victory for the coalition, Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous property damage, and Saddam Hussein was not removed from power.
		Subsequently, much of the intelligence used to justify the war was criticized as faulty by U.S. and British investigative bodies, and the U.S.-led occupation forces struggled into 2005 with Islamic insurgencies that military and civilian planners had failed to foresee.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/PersGWar.html (1192 words)

	Brief Overview of Persian Gulf War
		The 1991 Gulf War was hailed by many people, including those who prided themselves on their liberal outlook, as the first example of the New World Order made possible by the end of the Cold War.
		When a superpower war machine gets going and the media puts itself at the disposal of the political leaders and generals who are cranking it up, all understanding is driven from the airwaves and the newspapers to ensure public support for that war.
		There was tight censorship of the war reports and then a deadly media silence about the carnage caused by the bombing and the suffering that followed, so that we were never permitted to hear of the many thousands of civilian deaths for which we were collectively responsible.
	www.geocities.com /iraqinfo/gulfwar/overview.html (374 words)

	Persian Gulf Wars
		Persian Gulf Wars or Gulf Wars,two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent.
		Reaction of Vietnam veterans to the Persian Gulf War.
		The 1991 Persian Gulf War: short-term impacts on ocean and air transportation.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0838511.html (1281 words)

	Persian Gulf War, First -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Persian Gulf War, which took place during the first two months of 1991, freed Kuwait from the control of Saddam Hussein, the...
		This development was stimulated by the wars of the 19th century, which necessitated correspondents at the war sites.
		World War II was brought to an end by the dropping of atom bombs on two Japanese cities in the summer of 1945.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059340?tocId=9059340 (964 words)

	frontline: the gulf war \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		of "The Gulf War," on January 9, 1996.
		Marking the fifth anniversary of the war with Iraq, FRONTLINE investigates what really happened during the invasion of Kuwait, the months of diplomatic maneuvering, the air war and ground assault, and the post-war rebellion inside Iraq.
		The two-hour episodes are built around dozens of interviews with key political and military leaders in the U.S., its allies, and Iraq, as well as soldiers on both sides of the front line.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/index.html (205 words)

	Persian Gulf War
		It begins by positioning the Gulf War as an historical continuation of the Vietnam War, and moves on to a fantastical account of George Bush's daily life as the decision to attack Iraq is being made.
		Most wars (though not all) are initiated for ostensibly rational political reasons, but the real reason is often below the surface: racism, the need for revenge, to demonstrate manliness, to regain national honor, to compensate for feelings of inferiority or sexual inadequacy.
		We may have fought the Gulf War to ensure our control of the region but, like it or not, we knew afterwards we would still depend on the support of nearby countries for bases, matériel, and public relations management.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /TXT2/gulfwrtx.html (3520 words)

	Persian Gulf Wars on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The First Persian Gulf War, Jan.-Feb., 1991, was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia.
		The Second Persian Gulf War, also known as the Iraq War, Mar.-Apr., 2003, was a largely U.S.-British invasion of Iraq.
		Study: Gulf War vets in combat zone suffer host of health disorders.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PersG1W1ar.asp (1557 words)

	Persian Gulf War - Liberty - Themepark
		He was the allied commander during the Gulf War.
		He was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War and advisor to President Bush.
		Learn about the different planes that were used in the bombing raids of Iraq during the Gulf War.
	www.uen.org /themepark/liberty/gulfwar.shtml (683 words)

	The First Persian Gulf War
		Other powers were more directly concerned as consumers of Persian Gulf oil, but they were not as eager to commit military force, to risk their youth in battle and to pay for the costs of the war.
		The war also was financed by countries which were unable to send in troops.
		President Bush's decision to terminate the ground war at midnight February 28, 1991 was criticized, because it allowed Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens.
	www.libraryreference.org /gulfwar.html (1670 words)

	Persian Gulf War, Second -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The war led to the rapid defeat of Iraqi military and paramilitary forces and the occupation of Iraq.
		NATO's development during the Cold War can be divided into four main periods: (1) NATO's initial organization in 1949–55; (2) building the alliance's strength from 1955 to 1967; (3) the 1967–79 period of détente; and (4) increasing tensions from 1979 to the late 1980s.
		The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9398037?tocId=9398037 (1071 words)

	The Persian GULF WAR, 1991, TV News Collection
		This War Collection, renamed the Gulf War Video Collection by the Library, occupied new facilities in Hornbake Library building 3 September 2002, the 30th anniversary year of the Library's creation at the NAB.
		The Gulf War TV News Collection's developer is editor of CBS and Congress: "The Selling of the Pentagon" Papers, a special issue of the Educational Broadcasting Review (EBR), that he edited at the University of Mississippi.
		Persian Gulf War TV News Collection is a former faculty research archive at the University of North Alabama.
	www.chotank.com /desertstorm.html (1876 words)

	Persian Gulf War
		George Bush, the president of the United States, was a very significant individual during the Gulf War.
		Two areas of geography that aided the United States in the war was the desert and the Persian Gulf.
		The Persian Gulf War was said to be the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/nph/twt/storm/gulfwar.htm (922 words)

	The History Guy: The Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
		This is not really a surprise, considering the relative brevity of the war compared to the serious long-term consequences of the disease from which many veterans suffer.
		Following the end of the war, relations between Iraq and Kuwait deteriorated; with a lack of gratitude from the Baghdad government for help in the war and the reawakening of old issues regarding the border and Kuwaiti sovereignty.
		Amid growing tension between the two Persian Gulf neighbors, Saddam Hussein concluded that the United States and the rest of the outside world would not interfere to defend Kuwait.
	www.historyguy.com /gulfwar.html (1929 words)

	PERSIAN GULF WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Though countless pages have been written about the 1991 Persian Gulf War in the last decade, virtually nothing deals with the circumstances surrounding how the Americans died in the war.
		This was due primarily to the lightning speed with which the four-day ground war was concluded.
		Norman Schwarzkopf, in the war’s aftermath, put it best: "The loss of these gallant warriors tears at our hearts; yet we can all take great pride in their valiant stand against injustice and tyranny.
	www.vfw.org /magazine/articles/pg.html (1218 words)

	The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003)
		The war continues, as the occupying Coalition troops now face a guerrilla war conducted by those members of the Iraqi Republican Guard, the Saddam Fedayeen and the Shiite militia calling itself the Mahdi Army.
		The Second Persian Gulf War began in 1990 with Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait and ended in 1991 with a Coalition of nations under United Nations authority and led by the United States which forcibly ejected the Iraqi military from Kuwait.
		Prior to the outset of the war, the Peace/Anti-War Movement in North America and Europe grows and conducts many large-scale demonstrations against President Bush and the plans for war.
	www.historyguy.com /GulfWar2.html (2417 words)

	The Persian Gulf War (Jan. 16, 1991–April 6, 1991)
		Forgotten flier: U.S. Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher was shot down during the Persian Gulf War and classified as `killed in action' despite reports that he survived.
		Gulf war, recession take their toll; islands report on their responses in time of crisis.
		Gulf War captives hit Iraq with $900 million suit.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001293.html (595 words)

	The Gulf War
		The Gulf War was perhaps the most efficient war in American History, at least when considering the cost in American lives.
		Years after the war's end there are disagreements about whether the U.S. was justified in waging war against Iraq and over whether the war was prosecuted far enough.
		The air war was a devastating blow to the Iraqi military structure and was a decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict.
	www.indepthinfo.com /iraq/index.shtml (359 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Gulf War
		The U.S. had more than 500,000 troops in the Persian Gulf War, while the non-U.S. coalition forces equaled roughly 160,000, or 24 percent, of all forces.
		However, since the war, some scholars have concluded that the number of Iraqi soldiers who were killed was significantly less than initially reported.
		The U.S. Department of Defense has estimated the cost of the Gulf War at $61 billion; however, other sources say that number could be as high as $71 billion.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/gulfwar (373 words)

	Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
		For United States Gulf War veterans looking for information on the Gulf War Registry, the VA has info here.
		The story of Chet Brown, who arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 to find that the war was only beginning, is bluntly honest in its language and description.
		Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have received funding from the Department of Defense to study whether or not some Gulf War veterans with unexplained symptoms have a treatable medical condition which could explain their symptoms.
	www.gulfweb.org (1386 words)

	Office of the Special Assistant for the Gulf War Illnesses
		The letters are intended to provide new information to all veterans whose units may have been exposed to very low levels of chemical warfare agent resulting from the demolition of munitions at Khamisiyah.
		Further investigation is necessary because sarin and cyclosarin have never been shown to cause cancer and this study only evaluated deaths during the first nine years after this possible exposure.
		The Department of Veterans Affairs is continuing to conduct death rate studies of all Gulf War veterans.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil (351 words)

	Gulf War Debriefing Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Desert Storm II, Son of Gulf War, UN revenge.
		The weapons analysis is based on early reports, which we have since learned are not that accurate, and the performance levels are based on 1990 figures (i.e., when the war was fought, not now).
		It looks really great and is a must for anyone interested in the Gulf War.
	www.leyden.com /gulfwar (726 words)

	eBay - persian gulf war, Militaria, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	The Persian Gulf War (Jan. 16, 1991–April 6, 1991)
		The Persian Gulf War (Jan. 16, 1991–April 6, 1991)
		Allied and Iraqi military leaders meet on battlefield to discuss terms for a formal cease-fire to end the Gulf War.
		There were a total of 147 U.S. battle deaths during the Gulf War, 145 nonbattle deaths, and 467 wounded in action.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0001293.html (379 words)

	Gulf War History Resources
		Bibliography of the U.S. Navy in the Gulf War
		Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
		Whirlwind War: the United States Army in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
	users.snowcrest.net /jmike/gulfwarmil.html (134 words)

	Persian Gulf War Task Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Status of the Efforts of the DCI Persian Gulf War Illnesses Task Force 4 September 1997
		Status of Director of Central Intelligence Persian Gulf War Illnesses Task Force 18 March 1997
		The 41 documents released by the CIA and other documents related to Gulf War Illness can be found on the Department of Defense's GULFLINK.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/gulfwar (160 words)

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