Episode 2 - Old Newscast: The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, 1991 (Part 2)
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On the 24 February 1991 The ground operation in Kuwait begun. After 6 weeks of decisive air offenses, allied forces moved in with the mission to expel what was left of Saddam Hussein’s military presence in Kuwait.
Adam is joined again by three BBC reporters who were in the region at the time - Kate Adie, Justin Webb, and Jeremy Bowen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is episode two of a three-part series of old newscast on Desert Storm in 1991. |
| 0:06.7 | Episode three will only be available on BBC Sounds, but it's very easy to get it. |
| 0:11.3 | Just download the BBC Sounds app or go to the BBC Sounds website and search for Newscast. |
| 0:16.0 | And also, if you really like it, you can subscribe to future episodes of newscasts there very easily. |
| 0:21.1 | But here is Old Newscast. |
| 0:24.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome to another old newscast on Operation Desert Storm. |
| 0:30.9 | On our previous episode, we were talking about the air operation, which began on the 17th of January, 1991. |
| 0:40.8 | This was the first air campaign in history to employ precision munitions on a big scale and it significantly weakened Iraq's military infrastructure. |
| 0:46.9 | But after six weeks, Iraq's ground forces had still not left, Kuwait, the neighboring country |
| 0:53.5 | they'd been occupying. |
| 0:54.9 | This episode will jump ahead to the 24th of February. |
| 0:58.8 | That is the start of the ground invasion led by the Allied coalition into Kuwait, |
| 1:03.8 | aiming to push Saddam's forces out, marking the next phase of Operation Desert Storm. |
| 1:10.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:12.6 | The war started, the day Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq. |
| 1:19.2 | Their success will be as swift as it is certain. |
| 1:22.3 | It will not, I believe, be a long conflict, but it may be a fierce one. |
| 1:26.9 | Tonight, the battle has been joined. |
| 1:31.2 | And still with us is Justin Webb, who's here in the studio. Hello, Justin. Hello again. |
| 1:35.2 | Joining us down the line is Kate Adi. Hi, Kate. Hello. And Jeremy Bowen is out and about in Jordan. |
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