Major General B.R. McCaffry, 24th Infantry Division U.S. Army, stands in the desert of Kuwait and is interviewed . U.S. Army tanks in the desert during Operation Desert Storm. A U.S. soldier fires a hand-held rocket-launcher from top of a tank. Destroyed Iraqi enemy tanks in the desert.
Night time images with a night vision green glow. Tanks move in desert and fire on Iraqi targets. Explosions of enemy targets. Artillery and tanks firing and bombarding in the desert. Smoke arises due to the firing and bombarding. Armed U.S. Army soldiers cut through barbed-wire entanglements and move forward on the battle front.
King Hussein of Jordan descending stairs from his Royal Jordanian Airline jet passenger aircraft at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. He greets and kisses Iraq President Saddam Hussein who is waiting on the tarmac. King Hussein and Saddam Hussein review Iraqi Republican Guard troops and are greeted by other Iraqi officials, including Tariq Aziz, before entering a waiting Cadillac limousine and driving off. (Iran-Iraq war period).
A radio transmission tower and a statue in Baghdad, Iraq. A radio transmission tower outside Baghdad. A transmission headquarters building. A vehicle moves away from the building. Equestrian statue of King Faisal I of Iraq, in King Faisal Square, at the end of Haifa street, Baghdad, Iraq
Saddam Hussain addresses the Iraqi National Assembly (al-Majlis al-Watani), consisting exclusively of Saddam Hussein’s own fellow Baath party members, as the military president of Iraq. From his speech, Saddam Hussein highlights the importance of the National Assembly’s decision-making for the good of Iraq, the pride of being a democratic country with “democracy as a pillar of Iraq” and how they can face the local, national and regional issues long related to their country’s history.
Scenes just prior to the mlitary Coup and mob revolt in Iraq. King Faisal II is seen addressing an assembly of people, prior to the revolt in which His uncle, Crown Prince Ilah was killed by street mobs, and the whereabouts of King Faisal II and Premier Nuri as-Said were unknown. Flashback scenes show them arriving in Jordan on an Iraqi Airways 4-engine turboprop airliner. They are greeted by King Hussein, Faisal's cousin, as they come down the steps of the airplane. A brass band plays as they cross the tarmac. Flags of Iraq and Jordan fly from flagpoles.The two cousin kings, Faisal II and Hussein, sit side by side and watch parade of tanks, armored vehicles and trucks. (Note: both King Faisal II and Premier Nuri as-Said lost their lives in the subsequent revolt.)