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'Human shields' look back

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Twenty years ago Iraqi forces poured over the border in Kuwait and took control of Kuwait city, the start of the crisis that became the first Gulf War. Maureen Chappell and her son John describe how they were used as human shields in Iraq and Kuwaiti factories and military bases by Saddam Hussein's forces.


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