BA Flight 149: UK admits it did not warn Kuwait hostage flight
The foreign secretary has admitted that Parliament and the public were misled for decades about a British Airways flight which landed in Kuwait during an Iraqi invasion in 1990./ The passengers and crew of BA 149 were taken hostage, with many mistreated./ Newly released files reveal that the British ambassador in Kuwait warned the Foreign Office about the invasion, but BA was not told./ The government kept the warning secret for three decades./ However, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss reiterated earlier denials that the flight was being used ...
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