In News Online’s Witness BBC correspondents reflect on their coverage of some of the most extraordinary events of the past quarter of a century. There’s also the chance to watch their original reports.
Baghdad: 13 February 1991
Five weeks into Operation Desert Storm, the allies bombed an air raid shelter in a residential area of Baghdad.
Nobody knows how many people died in the shelter; the allies still stick to their story that the building was a military installation. The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Jeremy Bowen had just arrived in the Iraqi capital, he describes it as like being on another planet.
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