Operation Desert Fox

Update: 2010-12-16

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On 16 December 1998 the US and Britain began a four day bombardment of Iraq.

Their justification for Operation Desert Fox was Iraq's failure to comply with United Nations resolutions on disarmament.

Prakash Shah was the UN special representative in Baghdad - he lived through the bombing.

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