Akshay Kumar in AIRLIFT |
Bollywood`s `Airlift` is based on a true story that holds a Guinness World Record for the biggest ever human evacuation in the world. The story goes that Saddam Hussein`s Iraq in 1990 was in debt of the US because of the long-drawn Iran conflict that it had undertaken. Iraq wanted Kuwait to reduce oil production, to create a scarcity of oil leading to increasing oil prices, thereby helping Iraq raise more money. But Kuwait refused, leaving Iraq furious. On August 2nd 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait (part of the first Gulf War). The Iraqi army took over the city within a few hours. The Kuwaiti royal familymanaged to escape to Saudi Arabia. The city was looted and the general population subjugated and made to suffer great tragedies in the hands of the Iraqi army.
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