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1990/Desert Shield
3 Aug (Contd) (U) with U.S. Secretary of State James A.
			Baker III condemning the Iraqi invasion.
			Furthermore, the Soviets stopped delivering
			arms to Iraq.
		
4 August 		(U) Saddam Hussein installed a military
			government in Kuwait and began seizing
			American and British citizens in the city.

			(u) The European Community imposed an oil
			embargo on Iraq, stopped all arms sales to the
			country, and froze all Iraqi assets in Europe.

			(u) British and French warships joined U.S.
			naval vessels on the way to the gulf.
		
5 August - 	(u) Instead of withdrawing from Kuwait,
			Saddam Hussein began to move an additional 18
			divisions south toward the Kuwait-Saudi
			Arabian border.
		
			(u) The Usafe Battle Staff convened in the
			Operations Support Center (OSC) to monitor
			events.
		
6 August 		(u) The UN Security Council voted to adopt
			the same economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by
			the U.S. (Resolution 661). (See Appendix 1 for
			a list of UN resolutions on Iraq.)

			(u) The price of oil moved up $3 a barrel.
	
			(u) The media in the united States reported
			that Hussein held an estimated 366 American
			and British citizens living in Kuwait.

			(u) Meeting with Secretary of Defense Richard
			B. Cheney and ClNCCENT (Commander in Chief
			Central Command), General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
			- (USA), Saudi Arabian King Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz
			requested U.S. military protection for his
			country.

7 August 		(u) President Bush ordered U.S. warplanes and
			ground forces to Saudi Arabia, under Operation
			Desert Shield, saying the country faced the
			"imminent threat" of an Iraqi attack. This
			initial mission was defensive but it evolved
			into an effort to oust Saddam Hussein from
		
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