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Jan 2021
29m 22s

After Desert Storm: Baghdad, and the aft...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

In the final episode of our series on Operation Desert Storm, we’re telling the story of the war in Baghdad, and where this military operation has left the region 30 years later. Has it all gone to ashes, or are there a few things that have survived? We speak with the people we’ve met through this series to hear what they saw and felt during those tumultuous weeks of war, how it's affected their lives today, and impacted the region and the world.

In this episode:

Odai Al Najjar, Al Jazeera news editor; Salah Nasrawi, former Baghdad correspondent for Associated Press ; Nasser Al Hussainan, Retired Vice Admiral of the Kuwaiti Navy; Abdulwahab Al Qassab, Retired Major General, Iraqi Armed Forces; Eric T Olson, Retired Admiral, US Special Operations Command; Kate Adie, former BBC chief correspondent

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