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#359 - Stephen Davis - The Secrets Of British Airways Flight 149
Modern Wisdom
What's the Best Planation for This Inexplicable Decision?
Human shields made it difficult for western military planners to plan. They didn't really know where everybody was, and this would have been 70 odd simultaneous special forces rescue operations. Nobody knows why sidam thought he could negotiate his way out of the war. All the men got let go a tome. There were these tremendously emotional reunions, but then everybody forgot about them. It's classically the media where we can only concentrate on one big thing at a time. And i remember, even at the independent on sunday, i was really interested in investigating these people. But by december, the war was coming, and the invasion was coming, the War was coming. Desert storm was
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