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The Great Iraq War was one of the most deadly in the history of the world. It was perpetrated by Mohamed Omar who appeared on the political stage in 1985 and became one of the most powerful men in the world.

Point of Divergence[]

2085[]

  • September 22: Nuclear war occurs between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China. Because of their massive alliances the world is ravaged and in 24 hours the world is without a single functioning government. Mohamed Omar, a professor, creates a time machine and goes back in time to 1985 to prevent the crisis from occurring.

Arrival[]

1985[]

  • September 22: Mohamed Omar arrives in Baghdad.
  • September 30: Mohamed Omar proves to be one of the smartest people on the planet, and Saddam Hussein orders him to his presence after he stopped a 135 year long dispute between two families in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein finds the man to be the smartest he has ever known, and appoints him the Vice President of Iraq.
  • October 1: Mohamed Omar officially becomes the Vice President of Iraq.
  • October 12: Mohamed Omar draws up plans for the invasion of Kuwait.
  • October 14: Mohamed Omar creates a computer that is able to be hooked into a SAM targeting computer to counteract chaff and stealth.
  • October 31: Mohamed Omar is allegedly found drunk, but a 'thorough' investigation finds nothing.
  • November 12: Mohamed Omar creates an electronic production plant in Mosul, and begins to make many computer stuff.
  • November 30: The Iraqi Army, under the advise of Mohamed Omar, finds a terrorist that had been wanted for five years.
  • December 12: Mohamed Omar builds several more plants in Mosul.

1986[]

  • January 13: Mohamed Omar draws up a treaty to end the Iran-Iraq War. The treaty puts national borders back to pre-war boundaries but on the condition that Iran agrees to give 75% of their capital made by the oil industry.
  • January 23: Mohamed Omar shows his plan to Saddam Hussein who after nearly four hours of debating agrees to the terms and sends the treaty to Iran.
  • January 24: Iran accepts the treaty and the Treaty of Baghdad is signed.
  • February 12: The last Iraqi troops leave Iran.
    Scimitar Missile Launcher

    SML

  • February 18: Mohamed Omar builds nearly seventeen more plants in Mosul and expands his first one by 57%.
  • March 31: Mohamed Omar creates a rocket launcher called the Shoulder Mounted Launcher.
  • April 2: Saddam Hussein is shot by a CIA assassin and for four weeks Mohamed Omar becomes the acting President.
  • April 3: Mohamed Omar creates the Iraqi Espionage Service, known more widely as Splinter Cell.
  • Splinter cell

    Seal Six

    April 17: Splinter Cell has its first operation in China infiltrating the Chinese missile defense system.
  • April 18: Splinter Cell successfully deactivates the Chinese missile defense system for three hours.
  • April 19: The Splinter Cell agent known as Seal Six returns back to Baghdad.
  • April 22: Mohamed Omar adopts the SML as the official rocket for infantry men.
  • April 23: Mohamed Omar opens thirteen weapons manufacturing plants across the country.
  • May 1: Saddam Hussein becomes well enough to return to the Presidency, no problems occur.
  • May 30: Saddam Hussein officially makes all the changes Omar made legal and official.
  • June 22: Saddam Hussein makes the Vice President the Director of the Iraqi Espionage Service.
  • June 30: Mohamed Omar sends Seal Six to Washington D.C. where he is able to send a picture of the President from the ceiling grates.
  • July 2: Seal Six arrives back in Baghdad and shows the pictures to Saddam and Omar, both are very pleased.
  • July 17: Eagle Seven is sent to New York where he is able to get into the New York Federal Reserve.
  • July 20: Eagle Seven arrives back in Baghdad.
  • July 31: Mohamed Omar sends Seal Six and Eagle Seven into the USSR where they are able to assassinate the Governor of Moscow.
  • September 12: Mohamed Omar is accused of being drunk but again no evidence is found.
  • September 21: Mohamed Omar designs the Shoulder Mounted Launcher Surface to Air Variant (SMLSAV) and begins issuing them to troops with Saddam's permission. They are not as accurate or as deadly as a regular SAM but are much easier to carry around and is highly portable and above all only cost $150 for the launcher and $75 for the missile. They also look nearly identical to the SML.
  • October 14: Mohamed Omar has dinner with President Bush.
  • November 12: Mohamed Omar meet Kalashnikov
  • December 25: Mohamed Omar has Christmas Dinner with Kalashnikov.

Road to War[]

1987[]

  • January: Seal Six infiltrates the Lima Army Tank Plant and another Splinter Cell known as Eagle Seven infiltrates the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant.
  • March 2-14: The United States Army suspects it has a major security breach but after a thorough investigation they come up empty.
  • April 7: Seal Six sends the designs for the M1A1 Abrams to Iraq. The CIA intercepts the message but is unable to decipher the message and continues it onto Iraq.
  • April 8: Saddam Hussein receives word that the M1A1 plans have been acquired. He orders the plans set before him with his top advisors with him. Mohamed Omar says that he should begin production of the M1A1. Hussein agrees and orders the M1A1 to be produced under the name T-87 Babylon.
  • July 29: Eagle Seven is captured by the CIA and sent to Guantanamo. Seal Six begins to make his way back to Iraq by way of South Africa.
  • August 30: Saddam Hussein is almost killed by a sniper whom he blames was hired by the CIA.
  • December 15: Iraq's T-87 count is up to 100.
  • December 25: Mohamed Omar has Christmas Dinner with President Bill Clinton.

1988[]

  • Old Truck

    the truck that Seal Six used

    January 30: Seal Six finally makes it back to Iraq after having to go up Africa in a small truck while avoiding CIA assassins.
  • February 27: The US Army find that they are missing a single plan for the M1A1. They instantly tighten security in an attempt to find the missing plan but to no avail.
  • February 28: President Clinton orders that the fact that they are missing a plan be kept secret.
  • July 7: The Iraqi Army makes the T-87 their main battle tank.
    M1A1 exploding

    T-87 being hit by a LAW

  • September 12-22: The Iraqi Army tests the new battle tank by driving into ethnic Kurdish territory and begins to slaughter a staged rebellion. The Iraqis 'accidentally' lets American LAW rockets and Russian RPG-7 rockets to enter the Kurds' hands. This tests the tanks durability and nearly nothing the Kurds can throw at the T-87s can destroy them. Hussein dubs the Republican Guard as invincible.
  • November 3: The CIA looks at the photos of the Iraqi Army during the Kurdish Rebellion of 1988 and concludes that the Iraqis stole the plans and informs President Clinton of this. He says for this to keep quiet and it does.
  • November 7: Seal Six infiltrates the CIA and gains access to the main frames.

1989[]

  • March 17: Iraq amps up its chemical weapons production.
  • April 2: The USSR fearing total collapse of their government and the nuclear weapons falling into enemy's hands begins a process of distributing their nuclear weapons among its allies, Iraq included.
  • April 18: The Soviet nuclear missiles reach Iraq.
  • April 19: The Soviets adopt the SML and the SMLSAV as their main missile launchers.
  • Evstafiev-spetsnaz-prepare-for-mission

    Spetsnaz troops prepare for the movement of nuclear missiles from the Caucasus to Iraq

    April 20: The United States finds out what the USSR is doing and says this will cause even more probable for it to fall into enemy hands but the Premier rebukes the US and says that the US only wants to gain their nuclear weapons and begins to send mobile SAMs and Spetsnaz units along with the nuclear missiles.
  • July 10: All nuclear weapons reach their destination.
  • August 20: High School students are spoken to by President Bush about the dangers of Iraq and of the USSR sending its nuclear missiles to its allies.
  • September 1: The USSR buys the plans for the T-87 and three T-87s from Iraq for $17,000,000. After evaluating the worth of these tanks the USSR quickly begins production of these tanks.
  • September 12: The USSR sends many SAMs to Iraq, along with state of the art targeting computers.
  • November 29: Cuba receives 27 chemical weapons from Iraq under heavy protest from the United States whom are able to sink one of the Iraqi ships carrying the weapons lowering the amount in Cuba from 32 to 27.

The Great Iraq War[]

1990[]

  • January 3: The Iraqi Army begins conscription
  • February 17: The Iraqi Air Force is spotted over Kuwait City
  • May 28-30: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that oil overproduction by Kuwait and United Arab Emirates is "economic warfare" against Iraq. Mohamed Omar supports him.
  • July 15: Iraq accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Rumaylah oil field near the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and warns of military action.
  • July 22: Iraq begins deploying troops to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and building a massive military buildup.
  • August 2: About 100,000 Iraqi troops invade Kuwait. Kuwait is in Iraqi control by the end of the day.
    Kuwait

    A Kuwaiti tank driving towards its doom

  • August 6: The U.N. Security Council imposes a trade embargo on Iraq in a 13-0 vote, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.
  • August 7: The United States launches Operation Desert Shield. First U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia.
  • August 8: Saddam Hussein proclaims the annexation of Kuwait.
  • August 10: The Iraqi Army moves chemical weapons into Kuwait.
  • August 12: Naval blockade of Iraq begins.
  • August 28: Iraq declares Kuwait as its 19th province and renames Kuwait City as al-Kadhima.
  • September 14: Great Britain and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia.
  • November 29: The United Nations sets a deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait before January 15, 1991, or face military action.
  • December 12: Seal Six infiltrates the Coalition Army.

1991[]

  • January 9: The US Secretary of State James Baker and the Iraqi Foreign Minister meet in Geneva, Switzerland but the meeting ends with no results.
  • January 15: Iraqi troops on the border prepare for battle and receive an extra ration. The SAM sites are put onto high alert and computers are hooked into the SAM radar stations to counter-act stealth bombers.
  • January 16: The Coalition in Saudi Arabia begins Operation: Desert Storm. The SAM sights hit the USAF and other air forces with deadly accuracy. Many planes are shot down by the SAM rockets. The IQAF (Iraqi Air Force) sends up fighters to hit the USAF but many of the fighters are shot down.
  • January 17: The USAF attempts to hit the Iraqi lines again but almost all of the planes sent and the helicopter sent are shot down by SAMs. The Iraqi Army launches SCUD missiles into the US lines and hit several UN troops. The majority are shot down though.
  • January 18: The US sends 4 M1A1 Abrams to scout to the west of the main front. The M1A1s are spotted by the Iraqi Army and are hit by the T-87 whom quickly over whelm the small unit and eventually destroy the M1A1 Abrams after the tanks get to almost point blank range. The USAF sends several stealth bombers into Iraq but the SAM computers after a few initial minutes of confusion lock into the stealth air craft after determining that a bird shaped like a plane wasn't very likely and destroys the 4 bombers.
  • January 19: The UN decides that the air war isn't going well and launches the second phase of Desert Storm. Coalition ground troops surge forward in the greatest concentration of troops since WWII. The Coalition slams into the highly trained and waiting Iraqi Army. It quickly turns into an ugly brawl between two of the most powerful things on Earth. Many tanks on both sides are lost as well as many troops. The fighting became a long drawn out battle. By the end of the day the Coalition withdraws back to its lines.
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    Coalition units advancing on the Iraqi lines

    January 20: Protest against the war spring up in some places across America but it is not rampant. The Iraqi Army receives an extra ration and is visited by Mohamed Omar. The Coalition launches another offensive one hour after Omar left. It becomes another painfully bloody battle as SML rockets streak through the air and M1A1 rounds and T-87 rounds burst across the sky like fireworks, only deadly. The Coalition begins to make some headway and continues fighting in the night. They are still evenly matched as the USAF is unable to get through the SAM shield and the M1A1 and T-87 are practically identical. By morning the battle has turned into a stalemate.
  • January 21: The Americans attempt to go around the Iraqi Army and surround them but Saddam's forces are along the entire border and soon both sides are devastated by the fighting in the hot desert sands. In the main objective in Kuwait the USMC land inside of Kuwait and attempt to liberate the city but are pushed back into the ocean. Mohamed Omar sends Splinter Cell agents into the Coalition Army lines and they plant bombs under vehicles and plant mines inside of their bases killing almost 200.
  • January 22: The Iraqi Army launches chemical missiles at the Coalition Army and many die before they're able to put their gas masks on. The Coalition launches an even more vigorous attack and attempt to break the Iraqi lines. Both sides fight to a standstill again and more lives are indiscriminately lost.
  • January 23: The Coalition fortifies its position along the entire Iraqi border with Saudi Arabia and begins to solely use artillery to fight the Iraqis. The Iraqis respond in kind. Soon the war begins to look like something from 1916 in WWI. Soon the effects of shell shock begins to plague both sides.
  • January 24: More protests occur in America and France. The Iraqi Army begins using chemical rounds from their artillery and the Americans begin to use in much greater numbers their 'steel rain'.
  • January 25: Mohamed Omar uses Splinter Cell to assassinate General Norman Schwartzkopf. They succeed at getting into his private quarters and shooting him in the head with a silenced M1911. They however failed to kill him but he died 17 hours later in surgery.
  • January 26: Egypt withdraws from the Coalition sighting that the operation is a complete and utter failure. The United States assures everyone that they are going to win. The IQAF takes control of the air defenses after the Army allowed almost 50% of the SAM sights to go unattended. The measure is approved by Saddam and Omar and within two hours all SAM sights are fully staffed.
  • February 13: After many weeks of heavy stationary fighting the Iraqi Army launches a chemical missile mixed with an aerosol acid. The result is the gas masks of the Coalition being burned through and killing many of the soldiers. Almost 1500 died from the attack.
  • February 14: The United States uses its chemical weapons for the first time in its history in retaliation for the Iraqi chemical-acid attack. The chemical weapons are a major surprise to the Iraqis who lose almost 3200 to the gas as they hadn't thought the US would use their chemical weapons.
  • February 15: The New York Times front cover says "Chemical Warfare in the Middle East" this brings many peoples attention to the dangers of the weapons and that the US and Iraq are both using them.
  • February 18: The USAF begins Project: Confusion to try to find a way to counter-act the Iraqi SAM launchers.
  • February 23: USAF Colonel McLeod proposes that they have many planes launched but only a few of the planes be piloted with the others being remote controlled. The USAF board allocates $17,000,000 to the project. Coalition troops attempt to break the Iraqi lines once more but utterly fail again.
  • March 14: The Colonel McLeod and a small team successfully remote control over 100 planes at the same time.
  • March 15: Colonel McLeod tells the USAF board he has completed the project and is ready to deploy it.
  • March17: Almost ,300 planes nationwide are confiscated by the USAF.
  • March 19: The planes are shipped over to the middle east.
  • April 2: The planes arrive in Saudi Arabia.
    Operation Desert Storm

    USAF planes over Iraq on the April 7th attacks

  • April 7: The 1300 planes and 200 hundred piloted planes take off for Iraq. The IQAF defenses are over whelmed by the sheer number of the planes but succeeds in shooting down almost 1000 before they reach Baghdad. The USAF planes then open up on the city and hundreds of bombs begin to fall on Iraq. Within one hour the city is devastated and the planes continue into bases in Turkey. During the bombing Saddam's bunker was hit several times and he was found dead in his bunker. Mohamed Omar is sworn in as the President of Iraq and Saddam is buried as a national hero in Mosul.
  • April 8: Mohamed Omar proclaims to the world that he will continue Saddam's final battle and drive the "American scum from Arab lands.". The Iraqi Army launches an offensive at the Coalition lines and much to everyone's surprise they actually begin to make headway as the Republican Guard begins to push the Coalition back. The two armies are in a massive fight that carries over into the next day.
  • April 9: The fighting continues as the USAF provides close air support while the Iraqi Army launches precision missiles at the lines in front of their troops. The fighting soon becomes vicious hand to hand combat with such brutality that had not been seen since the Civil War. Very quickly the dead were piling up and soon the battle's deaths exceeded 50,000 with many more dying or wounded.
  • April 10: The Iraqi Army and the Coalition continue to fight and soon public support for the war begins to fall at a more dramatic rate. The Iraqi Army attempts to flank the Coalition but its units in the West are stopped by heavy Coalition resistance and are unable to advance any farther. In the Kuwait Theater the battle is still being vigorously fought with both sides now tiring very quickly.
  • April 11: The USMC lands once more in Kuwait City and are able to take and hold most of the city. The IQAF is able to break through USAF detection as they are already used up mostly in the main battle to the south. The IQAF bombs the USMC and is able to pin them in the city but is unable to drive them into the sea. The Iraqi Army continues to push against the Coalition and is now experiencing heavy fatigue. The IQAF successfully sinks the USS Ranger in the Persian Gulf and seriously damages the USS Nimitz forcing her to go to Qatar for repairs.
  • April 12: The IQAF shoots down the USAF fighters whom are trying to relieve the USMC in Kuwait City. The IQAF then sends in the SU-25s into Kuwait City and continues to bombard the USMC. Within 12 hours the USMC is seriously in trouble with most of its ammo depleted and all support being tied up else where or destroyed. The USAF performs close air support for the war in the far west of the country but is forced to use their resources sparingly as to not be devastated by the IQAF air-defenses. The main battle in the south still rages on as both armies are now feeling the full force of fatigue as the Iraqi Army and the Coalition uses tactical chemical weapons. The death toll climbs to 100,000.
  • April 13: The Iraqi Army decides that the troops are unable to continue on at an acceptable pace and begins to move in conscripted units while pulling in the battle weary units. The Coalition troops begin to fall back as the fresh Iraqi units begin to over power them. The USAF uses another mass attack but this one is almost entirely cut down by the IQAF defenses with the IQAF fighters finishing off what ever was left from the SAMs. The USMC in Kuwait City are finally forced to surrender. They are transported to a POW camp deep in the Iraqi desert.
  • April 14: The Coalition units in the Kuwait Front launch a counter-assault that finally halts the mostly inexperienced and green troops of the Iraqis. But the sheer number and freshness of the troops are able to stop the Coalition from pushing into Kuwait proper. The USMC POWs finally make it to the POW camp Syrian Desert. The USAF attempts to destroy the Syrian Desert POW camp but are unable to make it past the IQAF air-defenses. Large protest against the war occur in Florida State University, the National Guard is called in to make sure the protest do not turn violent.
  • April 15: The Battle of Ad Dibdibah finally ends with the two forces finally coming to a complete halt. The
    Gas Mask

    United States trooper

    Iraqi Army and the Coalition begins to shell on another once more and it seems all is back to the April 6th conditions.
  • April 20: Another protest occurs in the University of Central Florida and in Washington State University. The Coalition stops using chemical weapons against the Iraqis for the said reason of "not wishing to continue in the bloody and now worthless practice" but the real reason is that the chemical weapons store has fallen to only 12 chemical shells. The Iraqis continue to use chemical weapons.
  • April 21: Mohamed Omar visits the front once more and boosts the morale of the troops. The old soldiers of the Battle of Ad Dibdibah return to the front and many of the green soldiers are sent back into Kuwait to maintain order and to stay as reserves.
  • April 29: The USAF attempts to liberate the POW's at Syrian Desert POW's but are unable to break through the IQAF air-defenses. The US Army attempts to break through the Iraqi lines to liberate the POW camp but are unable to break through the Iraqi lines as well.
  • May 1: The Iraqi Army celebrates May Day with triple rations and some of the IQAF launching fireworks. In the USA the cities of Detroit, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Orlando, Tampa, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Detroit have descended into riots. The National Guard and State Defense Forces are called into quell the riotous behavior.
  • May 5: The USAF tries again to liberate the Marines in the Syrian Desert POW camp but once again fail to penetrate the IQAF defenses. The US Army also tried once more and sallied forth against the Iraqis but was yet again another disastrous failure.
  • May 7: President George H.W. Bush visits the front lines and boosts morale on the Coalition side. He is unexpectedly evacuated when reports of Iraqi chemical weapons launches occurred and he was successfully evacuated to Air Force One then back to the states.
  • May 10: Japan withdraws from the Coalition with heavy protest from the USA.
  • May 12: The IQAF sinks seven US cargo-ship bringing supplies to the Coalition. As a result Coalition troops go onto half rations.
  • May 17: The IQAF repels yet another attempt by the USAF trying to liberate the POWs. In fact four pilots were captured and sent to the very camp they were trying to destroy.
  • May 20: The USAF and the IQAF clash over Jordan when the USAF violated Jordanian air space at which point they would've been able to sweep into Iraq but after a three hour long battle over Jordan the USAF won a Pyrrhic victory. The USAF was able to strike deep into Iraq, until the IQAF brought up the SAM missiles and downed most of the USAF and the rest having to retreat into Turkey.
  • May 21: Mohamed Omar speaks out against the USAF going into Jordanian air space and urges Jordan to "... help fight the Coalition heathens and traitors." He then boards a train and heads to Jordan where he meets with the King of Jordan.
    Iraqi BTR-50 Personnel Carrier

    Iraqi troops being brought into Jordan

  • May 22: Mohamed Omar and Hussein I of Jordan agree to let Iraqi forces protect the nation. IQAF air-defenses enter Jordan and set up positions along the Jordanian border. The Iraqi Army in reserve in the Syrian Desert also head into Jordan and begin to set up defenses along the border.
  • May 25: King Hussein I pledges his allegiance to Iraq and to "drive the Coalition into the sea.". Jordanian troops quickly move to re-enforce the Iraqis. Iraq gives Jordan 1000 spare T-87 tanks. The troops in Jordan discard the T-72 quickly for the T-87.
  • May 26: Coalition troops attempt to break the unprepared Jordanian line but fail to break the lines and not wishing for a repeat of Ad Dibdibah fall back at night fall.
  • May 27: The USSR finally adopts the T-87 as their main battle tank as they now have enough to supply their demands. They also for quicker production make the T-87A2 which basically has no computers in it and only a high powered radio,a section for a map, a pad of paper, a scientific calculator, and a pen for calculations and planning.
  • May 28: Mohamed Omar begins the construction of electronic plants in Jordan and weapon factories as well. Jordanian troops nick-name the T-87 the Lion of Babylon.
  • May 29: The IQAF is confronted with electronic warfare against their systems as AWAC planes begin to try to jam their radar. They successfully bring down the SAM radars for three hours in which the USAF exploits their weakness and flies into Baghdad and Mosul and other places and begin to drop bombs on them. After three hours the Iraqi electronics experts filter through the AWACs jamming and brings the system back online. The USAF planes are destroyed on their way back to Coalition lines. Mohamed Omar orders that the electronic filtering be fitted to every SAM sight as to never allow the USAF to do that once more.
  • May 31: All SAM sights have electronic filters attached to their targeting computers.
  • June 1: US troops begin to feel the effects of a Middle Eastern summer and heat stroke soon becomes a major problem.
  • June 12: Heat stroke has become rampant in the Coalition ranks as many people from non-desert environments such as New England, France, England, Italy, Poland, etc, begin to fall to heat stroke's powerful affects.
  • June 17: The HMS Ronald Johnson (named after a soldier who died on the January 16 RAF assault) brings over seven tons in water and water filters. Soon water is distributed among the ranks and heat stroke victim numbers begin to drop.
  • June 23: The Mohamed Omar meets with the Premier Gorbachev. The two discuss in secret about what to do with the unbreakable stalemate that has been made in the Gulf War. Gorbachev points out that in the long run the Iraqis will run out of supplies. Omar agrees as supplies are already beginning to run low as some of the Iraqi reserves have been forced to have two-thirds rations. Gorbachev agrees to help his socialist ally and sends in nine Spetsnaz units to Iraq and a continuous supply chain to Iraq.
  • July 7: The Spetsnaz units and the first supplies reach the front lines of Iraq. The Coalition warns the USSR to withdraw their units and supplies. Gorbachev refuses.
  • July 10: The USAF launches out of bases in Turkey and begins to bomb the Mikhail Gorbachev Trail. The USSR warns that bombing the trail will result in retaliation.
  • July 11: The USAF continues bombing the Mikhail Gorbachev Trail.
  • July 13: SMLSAV's are handed out to the units protecting the trail.
  • July 15: The USAF loses 12 bombers to SMLSAV fire.
  • July 19: The IQAF sends 22 SAM's to the Mikhail Gorbachev Trail.
  • July 21: 103 USAF planes are shot down by the IQAF air defences.
  • July 27: The USAF stops bombing the MG Trail.
  • July 30: The US Army and Syrian Army sends troops to cut off the MG Trail.
  • July 31: The Spetsnaz troops protecting the MG Trail are over-run by nearly 35:1 odds.
  • August 1: Iraqi troops attempt to reopen the MG Trail but fail to do so. The New York Times has an article that declares 'first victory of war' on the MG Trail.
  • August 7: The IQAF sinks the HMS Jupiter, HMS London, USS Midway, USS John F. Kennedy as retaliation for the cutting off of the MG Trail. President Bush speaks out against Iraq later in his speech says that he will only accept unconditional surrender.
  • August 8: The Navy SEALs land in the port city of Umm Qasr and plant bombs all around the city. One hour after they leave the bombs explode and the city begins to burn. The Umm Qasr Fire Control Department is over whelmed and is forced to call on the Iraqi Army Reserves in Kuwait to help put out the fire.
  • August 9: President Omar speaks out against the USA for burning Kuwait City.
  • August 10: The fires in Kuwait are finally put out.
  • August 15: During the bombardment between the two forces the Coalition's secret hanger for the AWACs is destroyed inadvertently by the Iraqi Army the Coalition gives no hint that anything is wrong to conceal that the Iraqis have hit something as they're other sites nearby the AWAC hanger.
  • August 16: Feelings against the war run highest as they've ever been since the Vietnam War.
  • August 19: There is a march against the Gulf War in Washington D.C.
  • August 20: Coalition shelling successfully hits an Iraqi SAM sight.
  • August 21: Mohamed Omar asks for peace talks in Paris. After consideration the Coalition refuses and restates that only unconditional surrender will be accepted.
  • August 22: News breaks out that the Coalition has refused a peace talk. Even more riots occur in the US, France, England, and Canada.
  • August 23: Crippling riots in Canada causes over half of the Canadian troops to br recalled home.
  • August 24: Canada officially withdraws from the Coalition.
  • August 25: Riots in Canada subside. 150 US troops are called home to help quell the riots in Washington DC.
  • August 27: SETI accidentally picks up a non-encrypted Iraqi communication. After thinking it is an alien transmission (after all that is what they are searching for), someone in the room who speaks Arabic points out that it is talking about military movements. SETI immediately sent what they found to the US Army but it turned out that the US government could do little with the information as it was deep behind enemy lines and nothing could get past the IQAF and Iraqi Armies.
  • August 29: The US Congress passes a joint resolution that all US troops must be withdrawn by December 23 unless 'significant progress is made'.
  • August 31: President Bush asks Congress to reconsider. Speaker of the House Tom Foley says that "Congress can not allow you to wage war without the consent of the people"
  • September 3: The IQAF shoots down yet another bombing run to free the Syrian Desert POW camp.
    Firing rounds with an M777 Howitzer

    US troops firing a howitzer at an extremely high angle

  • September 19: The US Army begins a massive shelling campaign on the Kuwaiti Front.
  • September 21: After two days of continuous heavy bombardment the US Army puts a full frontal assault on the Iraqi lines. The Iraqis are pushed back by the unexpected assault. The US Army begins to flex the Iraqi lines back but they aren't broken.
  • September 22: The USAF is finally able to break the IQAF defences as most of the SAMs were moved deeper into the country to avoid capture. They wreak havoc on the Iraqi Army and they suddenly break much to Mohamed Omar's dismay. The Spetsnaz troops fight to the death against the Americans and over 24,000 are dead by the end of the day.
  • September 23: The IQAF begins launching their own fighters to combat the USAF's. The air battle becomes the most intense air battle in history topping the Battle of Britain. The Coalition forces begin to enter the outskirts of Kuwait City. The Iraqi Army regroups and begins a fierce resistance against the Americans. The T-87 Babylon and the M1A1 Abrams begin an epic battle in Kuwait as the infantry conduct some of the most fierce street-street warfare since Stalingrad and Berlin.
  • September 24: The Iraqi Army holds off the Americans from entering Kuwait proper but the death toll soon reaches 51,000. The USAF and IQAF continue to battle o'er the skies of Kuwait. The Mohamed Omar in desperation to avoid a repeat of the Gulf War he knew sends a message to President Bush saying he launch his tactical nuclear missiles at the Coalition. President Bush says that if he does nuclear retaliation will be the only option. Mohamed Omar only responds that if they are not withdrawn from Kuwait in 24 hours they will be destroyed. He then cuts the transmission. Bush and meets with his top Generals who all say that if they are serious they must also be. They agree not to withdraw troops but to attack even more vigorously.
  • September 25: The Coalition troops finally capture Kuwait City. The USAF though continues to battle the IQAF in the sky. Fierce fighting claims 12,000 more lives on both sides. At 7:22pm the Iraqi Army launches 4 tactical nuclear weapons at the Coalition troops in Kuwait City, and everywhere in the main assault in Kuwait. The result is total devastation of the Coalition troops with almost 90% killed with the rest being in the other fronts in the west. The United States launches two nuclear missiles at Baghdad and Basra. The cities are instantly destroyed with next to no of the city remaining. The world is shocked by the nuclear blasts. But soon it becomes apparent that this could spiral out of control the world calls for peace talks.

Peace, but at what cost?[]

  • September 26: The Coalition and Iraqi leaders meet in Paris to discuss peace. The two forces agree that the
    Federation Treaty

    The Coalition signing the Treaty of Paris of 1991

    nuclear development was frightening and could have easily escalated. The two agree to a cease fire.
  • September 27-30: The Coalition and Iraqi leaders discuss peace in Paris. The two agree to the Treaty of Paris which is endorsed by the UN. The treaty states that "Iraq will keep its January 14, 1991 borders and will agree to no longer pursue military action against other nations in the Middle East unless invaded by a foreign entity until the year 2010. Iraq will agree to pay $1,000,000,000 to the United States of America and $1,000,000 to Saudi Arabia and $1,000,000 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Iraq will also destroy its nuclear stockpile or relinquish them to the United States of America. The Coalition governments who partook in the Great Iraq War shall admit that they are the aggressors in the said war."
  • October 1: President Omar and the Coalition sign the Treaty of Paris of 1991. The Great Iraq War is officially over and all remaining US troops are shipped home along with the rest of the Coalition. President Omar declares the war a great victory for the people of the Arab world against the aggressor America. All Iraqi troops are shipped home for a one month leave to stay with their family. All conscripted troops are honorably discharged.

After the War[]

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