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WHAT HAPPENED ON 3th September 1996?
2nd September 1996
REBEL HUTU ATTACK REPORTED IN BURUNDI
Hutu rebels are reported to have launched an attack on a village in Burundi's northwest Kayanza province. Nearly a dozen government buildings in Gatara were looted & burned according to state radio reports. It said the rebels attacked the village on Saturday the day before Burundi's Hutu prime minister Pascal Firmin Ndimira visited the region. The report gave no casualty figures or further details.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. The President said the attacks had been aimed at Iraq's air defence operations in the south in order to make enforcing the extended exclusion zone easier. President Clinton acknowledged that not all the countries that fought alongside the United States in the Gulf war had been in favour of the latest attacks. But he said historically the Americans had taken the lead in these matters.
2nd September 1996
IRAQ'S OIL-FOR-AID SALES FACE SET-BACK
The resumption of limited Iraqi oil sales to pay for essential food & medicines faces a delay due to a row over how Iraq intends to use the money. Under a deal signed in May Baghdad will sell £2bn of oil every six months in return for humanitarian supplies. But the US has said Iraq is trying to import items such as computers that are not for humanitarian purposes. The US also says Iraq's food- distribution plan is unacceptable.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE REPORTED IN IRAQ
Witnesses have reported large explosions & anti-aircraft fire in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Reporters in their offices said they heard about a dozen large explosions and air raid warning sirens. Washington however has said none of its aircraft are involved. The cause of the blasts & gunfire is not known. Earlier the United States launched a second day of cruise missile strikes against Iraqi military installations. Raid to protect American airmen162
2nd September 1996
DIPLOMATS SEEK URGENT UN TALKS ON IRAQ
Western diplomats are understood to be trying to convene an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation in northern Iraq. But it was not clear if enough sides could be called to attend. Meanwhile President Clinton has ordered a reinforcement of US forces in the Gulf & has put them on high alert in the wake of the Iraqi advance. Earlier the Foreign Office said it condemned the Iraqi troop movement. Iraqi forces enter town of Arbil 161
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. The President said the attacks had been aimed at Iraq's air defence operations in the south in order to make enforcing the extended exclusion zone easier. President Clinton acknowledged that not all the countries that fought alongside the United States in the Gulf war had been in favour of the latest attacks. But he said historically the Americans had taken the lead in these matters.
2nd September 1996
UN PRESSED TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST IRAQ
The UN must take immediate action to prevent Iraq slaughtering thousands of Kurds John Major has been urged. Labour MP Clwyd & leaders of the exiled Iraqi opposition in Britain made their plea in a petition handed in to Downing Street. Ms Clwyd said a no-fly zone should be extended over all of northern Iraq. And Iraqi troops caught moving into Kurdish area should be "taken out" by military action she said.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. The President said the attacks had been aimed at Iraq's air defence operations in the south in order to make enforcing the extended exclusion zone easier. President Clinton acknowledged that not all the countries that fought alongside the United States in the Gulf war had been in favour of the latest attacks. But he said historically the Americans had taken the lead in these matters.
2nd September 1996
UN PRESSED TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST IRAQ
The UN must take immediate action to prevent Iraq slaughtering thousands of Kurds John Major has been urged. Labour MP Clwyd & leaders of the exiled Iraqi opposition in Britain made their plea in a petition handed in to Downing Street. Ms Clwyd said a no-fly zone should be extended over all of northern Iraq. And Iraqi troops caught moving into Kurdish area should be "taken out" by military action she said.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
IRAQ SAYS FIVE KILLED AFTER US STRIKES
The Iraqi army says five people were killed & 19 wounded in the US missile attacks on the country. It says cruise missiles hit both civilian & military targets. Meanwhile UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has expressed concern that the US attack could disrupt aid programmes in Iraq directed at Kurds. The US has also asked for a delay in in the oil-for-food-programme allowing Iraq to buy some food & medicine.
2nd September 1996
YELTSIN "DISCUSSES" CHECHEN PEACE DEAL
Russian President Boris Yeltsin has met his Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to discuss the Chechen peace deal Itar-Tass news agency has reported. His first meeting with any official since he began his holiday a week ago was said to have lasted two hours. The deal was struck by the president's security chief Alexander Lebed. Earlier Mr Lebed's press office said Mr Chernomyrdin viewed the peace deal as successful.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. President Clinton said the Americans were extending the air exclusion zone in southern Iraq. He said the aim was to stop Saddam Hussein's military from flying in an area that now extends from Baghdad's southern suburbs to the Kuwait border. This Mr Clinton said would restrict significantly Iraq's offensive capabilities.
3th September 1996
US President Clinton has spoken on
television about the missile attacks on Iraq. The President said the attacks had been aimed at Iraq's air defence operations in the south in order to make enforcing the extended exclusion zone easier. President Clinton acknowledged that not all the countries that fought alongside the United States in the Gulf war had been in favour of the latest attacks. But he said historically the Americans had taken the lead in these matters.
