Vintage CNN - Iraq War Day 1 - Report from State Department (Ralph Begletter) - Pt 1of15 - Jan 16-1991

Iraq War Day 1 - Report from State Department (Ralph Begletter)

I ripped these from old VHS tapes that I recorded
from the live Cable TV broadcasts 30yrs ago.

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👉 The Geneva Peace Conference

The Geneva Peace Conference was held on January 9, 1991,
in Geneva, Switzerland, to find a peaceful solution to the
Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in order to avoid a war between
Ba'athist Iraq and the United States-backed coalition.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz represented Iraq, while
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker was the United States
representative. Lasting nearly seven hours, both parties
refused to move on their initial positions. Iraq refused
to withdraw from Kuwait, while the United States and its
allies continued to demand Iraq's immediate withdrawal.

The meeting was the final initiative
that eventually led to the Gulf War.

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👉 Both Bush and Aziz held press Briefings after their meeting:

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Geneva Peace Conference - George Bush Press Briefing - Jan 09 1991
https://rumble.com/v2iljf4

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Geneva Peace Conference - Tariq Aziz - Jan 09 1991
https://rumble.com/v2ilds4

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👉 Operation Desert Storm - The Beginning of the Gulf War.

On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced
the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm
—a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from
Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.

For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen nations had
positioned more than 900,000 troops in the region, most
stationed on the Saudi-Iraq border. A U.N.-declared deadline
for withdrawal passed on January 15, with no action from Iraq,
so coalition forces began a five-week bombardment of Iraqi
command and control targets from air and sea.

Despite widespread fears that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
might order the use of chemical weapons, a ground invasion
followed in February. Coalition forces swiftly drove Iraq
from Kuwait, advancing into Iraq, and reaching a cease-fire
within 100 hours—controversially leaving Saddam Hussein in
power.

While coalition casualties were in the hundreds, Iraqi
losses numbered in the tens of thousands.

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👉 CNN footage from Day 1 of Operation Desert Storm.
It appears to have been broadcast on Jan 16, 1991.
It covers a 2 hr period starting about 11:00pm.

I broke the tape down to 15 individual segments:

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1 Ralph Begleiter Live Report from State Department

https://rumble.com/v15ks8u

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2 Mike Chinoy reports on the Iraq Republican Guard from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

https://rumble.com/v15ku60

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3 Interview with Bing West Fmr U.S. Asst. Secy. of Defense

https://rumble.com/v15kuro

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4 Address by George Bush -Charles Bierbauer Live from The Whitehouse

https://rumble.com/v15kvjq

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5 Charles Hoff report on Iraqi Underground Bunkers

https://rumble.com/v15kw9u

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6 Mike Chinoy on Riyadh Scud Attacks -Patriot Missles -Failaka Island Captured

https://rumble.com/v15kwq8

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7 Rick Sallinger Live Report from Riyadh, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Oil Fires

https://rumble.com/v15kxje

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8 Jeanne Moos Live Report from the UN

https://rumble.com/v15kyck

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9 Christiane Amanpour Live report from Baghdad

https://rumble.com/v15kyuw

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10 Candy Crowley Live report from the Pentagon

https://rumble.com/v15kzga

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11 Richard Blystone interviews Middle East Analyst, Amatzia Baram from Tel Aviv

https://rumble.com/v15kzva

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12 Interview with Col Trevor Dupuy US Army (Ret.)

https://rumble.com/v15l0n2

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13 Dan Blackburn Interviews Marine wives in Oceanside, Calif

https://rumble.com/v15l12m

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14 Interview with Senator Patrick Leahy (D) Vermont

https://rumble.com/v15l1i6

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15 Interview with Sen Charles Robb (D) Virginia

https://rumble.com/v15l1yu

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👉 CNN footage from Day 2 of Operation Desert Storm.
It appears to have been broadcast on Jan 17, 1991.

It covers the Presidential and Pentagon Press Briefings
that took place on the second day of Desert Storm.

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Iraq War Day 2 - Pentagon Press Briefing - Jan 17 1991
https://rumble.com/v2iltlu

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Iraq War Day 2 - George Bush Press Briefing - Jan 17 1991
https://rumble.com/v2ilo9c

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Vintage CNN - War in the Gulf - Weapons of Mass Destruction - Jan 17 1991
https://rumble.com/v2hkkvq

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