WMD (weapons of mass destruction). However this assertion was all clearly contradictory. He asserted that Hussein was an ally of Al-Qaeda so was related to 9.11. However a U.S. bipartisan commission investigated the September 11 attacks, and they said there was no evidence of a “collaborative operational relationship” between the Iraq Baath party’s Hussein government and al-Qaeda.
On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait
On August 3 the UNSC called for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
On November 29 the UNSC called for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991,
Ṣaddam Hussein refused to withdraw Iraqi forces from Kuwait
On January 16–17, 1991 The Persian Gulf War began
- With the multinational coalition force led by the US air offensive