April Glaspie person
also: April Gillespie
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Saddam Husseinperson · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1Andreotti disclosure 2 Aug 1990event · 1Iraqi invasion of Kuwaitevent · 1Kuwaitcountry · 1Saudi Arabiacountry · 1King Fahdperson · 1Gulf War 1991event · 1
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April Glaspie ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“And the week before that, April Gillespie, and I didn't know it at the time this came out later, had basically told, they basically set Saddam Hussein up. That's the bottom line. That conflict over that oil, what happened was Kuwait was hor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:41:08
April Glaspie ordered_assassination_of
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait host_asserted
“and pumping it as if it was Kuwaiti oil. And it had been a long standing feud between the two. And so he told Saddam Hussein, if he went into Kuwait to basically take back their oil, that the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with that. And then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:41:35
April Glaspie proposed
Gulf War 1991 host_asserted
“basically authorized Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. So this invasion and this desert storm happened at exactly the perfect time…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 43:45
Mentions (3)
▶ 43:17
and to King Fahd's intelligence agency and the head of the largest bank in Saudi Arabia and the financial investment officer to the royal family. So in other words, we have yet another reason why, and we saw this with the revealing of Opera…
▶ 43:45
basically authorized Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. So this invasion and this desert storm happened at exactly the perfect time in order to put all of this stuff and just sweep it under the rug, which we know they do all the time. Yeah, a…
▶ 1:40:38
We instigated it or something, basically. Well, we authorized Iraq's invasion of Kuwait because, obviously, you probably haven't been here the whole time we've been doing this, years now. But the invasion happened on the 2nd of August of 19…