
Amiriyah shelter bombing - Wikipedia
However, the unnamed human source in Iraq warned the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that the Iraqi Intelligence Service had begun operating in the shelter. In addition, military vehicles …
GBU-28 - Wikipedia
The GBU-28 (Guided Bomb Unit‐28) is a 4,000–5,000-pound (1,800–2,300 kg) class laser-guided "bunker busting" bomb produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York. It …
What's Inside Saddam's Bunker? - ABC News
Jan 7, 2003 · Jan. 8 -- When allied forces fired three cruise missiles at a conference center in Baghdad on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, their real target was underneath it: a state …
Amiriyah bombing 30 years on: ‘No one remembers’ the victims
Feb 13, 2021 · On February 12, 1991, Esho – then 18 years old – drove his 45-year-old mother, Shonee Shamoan Eshaq, to public shelter number 25, a bunker in their western Baghdad …
Apparatus of Lies: Crafting Tragedy - National Archives
The Amiriyah Bunker-Shelter In the early morning hours of February 13, 1991, coalition precision-guided bombs hit the Amiriyah bunker in Baghdad. Television networks broadcast gruesome …
Middle East | Saddam bunker 'almost impenetrable' - BBC News
Apr 7, 2003 · US officials said "bunker-busters" - GBU-28 bombs weighing 2,086kg (4,600lbs) - were used for the first time in Baghdad on 28 March, targeting a communications centre in the …
25 Years Later: Remembering the Amiriyah Shelter Massacre in Iraq
Feb 12, 2016 · In the morning of February 13, 1991, just before dawn, U.S. planes dropped two 2,000-pound “smart bombs” on a civilian shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, …
Amiriyah shelter bombing | Military Wiki | Fandom
The Amiriyah shelter bombing [N 1] was an aerial attack that killed more than 408 civilians [2] on 13 February 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. …
Muthanna / Samarra - Iraq Special Weapons Facilities - GlobalSecurity.org
Sep 28, 1990 · Area I - Cruciform bunker storage area- Iraq is believed to have stored its cw munitions in eight cruciform bunkers at Samarra and 22 "S"-shaped bunkers at 14 other …
CNN.com - Bunker-buster dropped on Baghdad - Mar. 28, 2003
Mar 27, 2003 · The United States has dropped two 4,500-pound GBU-37 bunker-buster bombs on a target in Baghdad, shaking a large area and creating a large plume of smoke that rose over …