{"id":65207,"date":"2021-01-17T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/?p=65207"},"modified":"2021-01-17T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T07:00:36","slug":"war-to-liberate-kuwait-from-iraqi-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/war-to-liberate-kuwait-from-iraqi-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY COLONEL OLIVIER PASSOT<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>French D\u00e9fense Attach\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion started on 17 January, 1991: 30 years ago. France contributed to the campaign to liberate Kuwait called Desert Storm, under the codename of Op\u00e9ration Daguet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The French provided an Army component (Division Daguet), whose mission was to protect the left flank of the coalition forces and to conquer Salman airbase, a tactical hotspot in Iraq. The air component of Operation Daguet consisted of 40 Jaguar and 30 Mirage fighter aircraft, stationed at Al-Ahsa air base in Saudi Arabia. The naval component was part of international task forces in the Gulf waters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65212\" src=\"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MISTRAL-desert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MISTRAL-desert.jpg 700w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MISTRAL-desert-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MISTRAL-desert-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MISTRAL-desert-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several French veterans wanted to commemorate this D-Day, 30 years later. They wrote testimonies of \u2018their\u2019 war to liberate Kuwait. A Jaguar pilot, captain Mahagne remembers when he conducted an air raid over Kuwait, right on 17 January, 1991. He carried out his mission successfully, although he was fired at by Iraqi air defense.<\/p>\n<p>Other veterans recall their experience as combat engineers, in air defense and electronic warfare. To celebrate this anniversary, some of these veterans also sent us original photos that they are happy to share with Kuwaitis and people of all friendly nations who took part in this historical campaign to liberate Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65214\" src=\"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cooperation-France-Kuwait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cooperation-France-Kuwait.jpg 700w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cooperation-France-Kuwait-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cooperation-France-Kuwait-696x437.jpg 696w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cooperation-France-Kuwait-668x420.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65215\" src=\"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-696x440.jpg 696w, https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-664x420.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY COLONEL OLIVIER PASSOT French D\u00e9fense Attach\u00e9 The war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion started on 17 January, 1991: 30 years ago. France contributed to the campaign to liberate Kuwait called Desert Storm, under the codename of Op\u00e9ration Daguet. The French provided an Army component (Division Daguet), whose mission was to protect the left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-operation-daguet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion - TimesKuwait<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/war-to-liberate-kuwait-from-iraqi-invasion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion - TimesKuwait\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY COLONEL OLIVIER PASSOT French D\u00e9fense Attach\u00e9 The war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion started on 17 January, 1991: 30 years ago. 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