Chapter 646 Hostage Shield
The appearance is ridged and angular, a little different from previous aircraft. It looks so sci-fi. This is the pride of the United States, which is specially used to tear the enemy's air defense system-117!
Although he encountered a flight failure during the invasion of Panama, the US Air Force still regarded this aircraft as an ace weapon. Now, it is time to test the attack capabilities of this stealth aircraft!
This is the first overseas deployment of -117, which is also a choice that the Americans have to make. After all, the -117 is just a light attack aircraft with a maximum range of only 3,000 kilometers. If you start directly from the air force base in the United States, you will have to undergo at least four air refueling times, unable to respond quickly, and you will not be able to give the pilot a full rest.︾,
Therefore, the United States had to send this magic weapon to the front line, and this stealth aircraft requires a hangar with constant temperature and humidity. In order to allow such aircraft to enter, the United States had to come to this original civil aviation base in Pakistan in advance to build a new hangar to accommodate these aircraft, so it wasted a lot of time.
Now that the hangar has been repaired, a large number of military aircraft can finally be deployed!
In addition to the killer-117, a large number of -15 and -16 fighter jets were stationed in Pakistan at the same time. The 8th Air Force, the 5th Air Force and other ace troops, which had great military achievements, all entered Pakistan one after another.
At the same time, under the mobilization of the United States, other Western countries also joined the war. Britain, France, Spain, and Italy all responded to the call of the United States and sent troops to come.
If you want to attack Iraq, air bases and naval bases can be placed in Pakistan and are outside the range of Iraq's Scud missiles. However, the army must be close to the border between Iraq and Kuwait. That is, it is necessary to station troops in Saudi Arabia!
Therefore, when we learned that Saudi Arabia invited Pakistan's army troops to enter, the United States would follow Pakistan's pace without hesitation and use the name of Pakistan's Allied Forces to enter Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were helpless to accept the United States' actions. So the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States first entered Saudi Arabia, and together with Pakistan's armored division, guarded the Saudi border area to guard against Iraq's army's attack.
At the same time, the subsequent army of multinational troops was still driving in, and the command of these troops soon became a big problem.
After many consultations, the countries finally agreed to establish a coordinated combat command organization at the highest level of the multinational forces. The principle is that all troops in the theater are subject to unified command by Lieutenant General Khalid, commander of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces, and General Schwartzkopf, commander of the US Central Headquarters. However, the troops of each country accept orders and instructions from their highest authorities.
As for the Pakistani army, when it was sent, it was almost mercenary, helping Saudi Arabia defend the border. Therefore, it did not ask for the highest command power, but in this command organization, it still left a position as chief of staff for Pakistan.
As the US Army entered Saudi Arabia, it means that the United States will finally start to use force to resolve the problem.
Faced with collective interference in the Western world, Saddam also expressed his anger. In this situation, Saudi Arabia's actions were simply to attract wolves into the house. The holy land was trampled by Western colonists, and Saudi Arabia was the sinner of the Arab world!
In fact, Saddam's bones have both a kind of madness when he is treacherous and excessive caution. In later generations, many people have analyzed that if Saddam wanted to win the Gulf War, he should continue to drive straight into the country after invading Kuwait, and occupy the entire Saudi Arabia and advance to the Red Sea!
At that time, even if the Americans want to attack Iraq, they will not have a reliable place to garrison. Iraq occupies Saudi Arabia and its strategic depth will be greatly extended. Even if it cannot be defeated, it will be able to make a decent sum.
Now, it seems like a nouveau riche, after he has the wealth of Kuwait, Iraq is content. What they are doing now is to constantly increase troops to Kuwait and prepare to fight the Americans in Kuwait!
They don’t know that the United States is not Iran at all, and the war will not last for eight or even ten years.
Of course, there are still many stupid moves. Saddam, a fighter in the Arab world, would not stop if he did not fight himself to the point of desperate situation.
Faced with the arrival of Americans and the possible attacks that Americans may begin, Iraq has also begun a new countermeasure, which is to kidnap hostages from the West!
Just twenty-four hours after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Iraq closed its borders, and at the same time, all the Westerners who stayed in Kuwait were concentrated by Iraq.
Back then, Iran's detention of Americans in the US Embassy made the Carter administration go badly and eventually fell into a resignation. Now, Iraq can also do the same. Iraq is not only detained by dozens, but even hundreds of Americans, but Iraq is detained by tens of thousands of Americans!
"All citizens of countries that have sanctioned Iraq are not allowed to leave Kuwait until there is sufficient evidence that the threat of war against the Iraqi people no longer exists." The Iraqi government faced the American garrison and announced shamelessly: "Once the Western world wants to attack us, we will detain these foreigners in military facilities, oil facilities, public facilities and drinking water purification plants that may be attacked by the United States. If the United States and other accomplices dare to attack Iraq, then these detained foreigners will be the first victims."
Detaining hostages from various countries and making them jealous of the hostages! Saddam's method is a complete trick. In this case, the United States and other countries have obtained the authorization of the United Nations. If they still compromise with Iraq because of hostages, it would be a joke to other countries. On the contrary, Iraq's actions have made the whole world very disgusted.
Previously, although some countries expressed dissatisfaction with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, they also believed that this was an internal affairs of Arab countries and should not be mixed by the Western world. Now, Iraq has taken hostages from various countries and used ordinary citizens to threaten the government. This is a national act of terrorism.
This kind of behavior is the act of rats crossing the street and everyone shouting and beating. Ascending to the national level, this is a pure political blackmail!
"As long as the United States withdraws its troops immediately and lifts the embargo on Iraq, Iraq will agree to the departure of these foreigners," said the Iraqi spokesperson.
Saddam's performance has even more angered the Western world. The US Congress has opposed it when it comes to fighting a war in the distant Middle East, believing that the US's fiscal deficit is very serious and that it cannot start another war at all, especially paying a war budget of more than 50 billion US dollars, which will worsen the US's fiscal system.
But now, Iraq is using hostages as shields so much, and the country is filled with passion. It agrees with the new plan to increase troops proposed by the Bush administration and eventually deploys more than 200,000 troops stationed in the Gulf. Only in this way can the Gulf War be won!
Most Americans came by boat, so the speed was very slow. The whole world was worried about the crisis in the Gulf region, and time passed day by day.
At the end of 1992, Islamabad, the Presidential Palace.
"We really hope to resolve the hostage issue as soon as possible." Pakistani President Mhamad sat in a chair and said to the invited Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz: "This war has nothing to do with civilians. Saddam is a fighter in the Arab world and should not use such despicable means."
Mhamad spoke very directly, and Aziz, who was opposite, blushed: "This is because of the sanctions in the Western world, especially the United States has imposed economic sanctions on us, and we must do this."
"That was caused by your invasion of Kuwait." Mhamad said: "Your side is very stupid to do this. Now, everyone in the Western world is clamoring for Iraq, and your reputation in the whole world is already bad."
"President Mhamad, I was invited to solve the problem this time. If you make such a sarcasm, I will end this visit." Aziz said.
In order to help solve the hostage problem, Pakistan is making unremitting efforts. Iraq mainly detained Westerners. As for Kuwait's original Arabs, they all set out on the road to go home at the first time. Pakistan has long recalled the personnel working in Kuwait who hold their own nationality. Before Saddam invaded Kuwait, all of them had returned to Pakistan.
Now, mainly to help the United States solve the problem, this is a more friendly expression of Pakistan.
Facing Pakistan, the Iraqis are very complicated. They have fought for ten years, but Pakistan's economy has developed rapidly and all kinds of weapons can be produced by themselves. However, Iraq still has to purchase weapons from abroad. Now, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Pakistan actually reached out to the Persian Gulf, rescued the Sabach family in Kuwait, and sent troops to Saudi Arabia.
These actions are a betrayal of Iraq, but Iraq still has no choice but to deal with the other side. Now, Pakistan's President Mhamad is even more mocking.
Aziz was also very uncomfortable and couldn't help but protest to Mhamad. If you say that, what else can you negotiate? I won't be with you anymore.
Chapter completed!