UK troops to be sent to Saudi Arabia
- Title
- UK troops to be sent to Saudi Arabia
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 15 Sep 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:02:41
- Description
- Speech by Defence Secretary Tom King (in the House of Commons?), announcing that Britain is sending six thousand troops and one hundred and twenty tanks to Saudi Arabia to join the international forces opposing Saddam Hussein following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. To include the Seventh Armoured Brigade (Desert Rats).
- Contributors
- Tom King
- Keywords
- Armed forces; UK; Great Britain; Military affairs; UN; NATO; Saudi Arabia; Presidents; Army; Kuwait; Iraq; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein; Seventh Armoured Brigade
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LBC/IRN, "UK troops to be sent to Saudi Arabia". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0008400579002 (Accessed 27 Jan 2026)