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02279aam a2200313 i 4500 001 233B3328362211EC96E83EC236ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211026010052 008 211004s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1789464609 020 $a 9781789464603 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Davis, Stephen, $d 1947- 245 1 $a Operation Trojan Horse : $b the true story behind the most shocking government cover up of the last thirty years / $c Stephen Davis. 264 1 $a London : $b John Blake Publishing, $c 2021. 300 $a 322 pages ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Includes bibliographical resources and index. 520 $a On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers. Instead, Flight 149 stopped to refuel in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops amassed on the border - delivering the passengers and crew into the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army, to be used as 'human shields' during their invasion. Why did BA flight 149 proceed with plans to refuel in Kuwait City, even as all other flights were rerouted - and even though British and American governments had clear intelligence that Saddam was about to invade? The answer lies in an exchange of favours at the highest echelons of government, and a secret, unaccountable organization - authorised by Margaret Thatcher - carrying out a 'deniable' intelligence operation to sneak in a group of intelligence offers into Kuwait aboard the flight. The plane was the 'Trojan Horse', and the plan - as well as the horrific, traumatic consequences for the civilian passengers - has been lied about, denied and covered up by successive British Governments ever since. 541 $d 20211004. 650 $a Hijacking of aircraft $z Kuwait. 650 $a Hijacking of aircraft $z Iraq. 650 $a Persian Gulf War, 1991 $x hostages. 650 $a Conspiracies $z Great Britain. 650 1 $a Espionage $z Great Britain. 651 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relatiions $z Middle East. 651 $a Middle East $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 941 $a 1 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20211026011634.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=233B3328362211EC96E83EC236ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search