In 1993 A terrorist bomb exploded in the parking garage of the World Trade Centre in New York, USA. The 1,200lb bomb was the master mind of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef who had planned for one of the towers to collapse and fall into its twin. Luckily the bomb only left a 60 ft crater clallapsing several steel reinforced concrete floors. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured but the casualties could have been much higher. Most of the terrorist responsible were captured within a year including one that had returned for the deposit he put on the hire van used. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was later found in 1995 in Pakistan and who had also been hiding in the Philippines. A computer used by Yousef also contained plans for to kill Pope John Paul II and take down 15 civilian airplanes.
In 1991 Kuwait celebrates as the invading Iraqi troops flee the Capital. Iraq invaded Kuwait 208 days ago but today their leader President Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to withdraw immediately after intervention from some thirty countries in ‘Operation Desert Storm’. The operation started on the 16th of January 1991 when Saddam refused to leave Kuwait by the 15th of January as ordered by the United Nations. When Iraq continued their occupation, air strikes began from sea and air targeting military sites in Iraq. The air bombardment continued until the 26th of February when the ground invasion began and within the first day 10,000 Iraqi troops were taken captive. Just two days later all Iraqi troops had left the country of Kuwait.
In 1935 The German Luftwaffe was authorised by NAZI leader Adolf Hitler. The secret orders also made Hermann Goering the Commander and Chief of the new German Air force. The Versailles Treaty, that formally marked the end of World War I, prohibited Germany from having a military aviation wing. Hitler used the civilian German airline to train up pilots for this secretive military air force. It wasn’t long before the German Luftwaffe had grown larger than the British Royal Air Force.
