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USAFE and the Gulf Crisis:
A Chronology
1990
17 July 	(U) Iraq's President Saddam Hussein accused
		Kuwait of various transgressions regarding
		Kuwaiti oil practices and threatened to use
		force If these practices continued. He also
		accused the Arab Persian Gulf states of a
		"plot" to hold down oil prices.

18 July 	(O) Iraq's Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz
		demanded Arab gulf neighbors cancel Iraq's $3
		billion debt to them.

23 July 	(U) Western military attaches in the Persian
		Gulf region reported that 30,000 Iraqi
		soldiers in tanks, armored personnel carriers,
		and artillery vehicles were positioned on the
		Iraq-Kuwait border.

		(U) The Strategic Air Command (SAC) deployed
		two KC-135 tankers, on temporary duty (TDY) at
		RAP Mildenhall, United Kingdom, from the 301st
		Air Refueling wing at Malmstrom AFB, Montana,
		to A1 Dhafra, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The
		tankers provided aerial refueling support to
		UAE fighters flying combat air patrol sorties
		along the UAE border.
		
24 July 	(U) The Pentagon announced a abort-notice
		exercise with naval forces from the U.S. and
		United Arab Emirates. The Pentagon estimated
		Saddam Hussein's forces numbered almost
		100,000 along the border.

25 July 	(U) Saddam Hussein s summoned U.S. Ambassador
		April Glaspie to protest the exercise.

27 July 	(U) The U.S. Congress voted to stop $1.2
		billion in U.S. loans to Iraq and to cancel
		the sale of some food products and items which
		Iraq could use for military purposes.
		
27 July 	(U) A meeting in Geneva of OPEC Organization
		of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers
		attempted to satisfy Iraqi demands by increas-
		ing the price of crude oil by 20 percent, to
		
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