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United Arab Emirates
Index
Bahrain played a limited but active role in the gulf
war.
Bahraini ground forces were among the 3,000 Peninsula
Shield
force of the GCC (exclusive of Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti
troops)
that were assigned to a support role during Operation
Desert
Storm as part of Joint Forces Command East. Bahrain was
the
primary coalition naval base and was the point of origin
for
coalition air operations against Iraqi targets. Bahraini
pilots
joined other members of the coalition in flying strikes
into
Iraq. Three Scud missiles were aimed at Bahrain during the
war.
Only one landed in the country, and it did not hit a
target area.
There were no Bahraini combat deaths in the war.
Data as of January 1993
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