Saddam Hussein met with his generals in Basra on January 27th, 1991.

He was pacing back and forth, and he was furious.

Six months earlier, Iraq had invaded Kuwait, and the world responded with a relentless

shock and awe campaign.

The coalition's 2,000 daily air attacks had crippled Iraq's defenses and destroyed its Air Force.

Hussein's plan to draw coalition troops into a costly ground war had backfired.

Instead, Iraqi soldiers were surrendering by the thousands. These were battle-tested

troops in one of the world's largest armies, laying down weapons without firing a single shot.

It was maddening. An officer handed Hussein a report about a

radio transmitter in Kaffi Saudi Arabia. He dismissed it as Western propaganda, but his officer

asked him to keep reading.

There was an intelligence document attached.

It said the FM transmitter in Kofji was broadcasting subliminal messages that were making Iraqi

troop surrender using mind control.

Hussein ordered the tower destroyed within three days.

His officers pushed back.

The town was lightly guarded for now,

but taking it would be a suicide mission without air support.

They didn't even know if this mind-control weapon was real.

It could be another American lie.

Hussein stopped pacing.

Three days, he said.

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