On August 2nd, 1990, also known as Black Thursday, then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in a feeble attempt to erase Kuwait from the map, invaded the country to murder, steal, torture, rape, and obliterate everything in sight. Overnight, the Iraqi troops turned Kuwait, the Pearl of the Gulf, into a scene...
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