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On her way home, the six-year-old girl abducted by her father and

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taken to Pakistan. Atiya Anjum- Wilkinson vanished from her home in

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Greater Manchester more than three years ago.

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Declassified papers from the Falklands war 30 years ago reveal

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Margaret Thatcher never expected an invasion.

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And Norman Schwarzkopf, the American General who led coalition

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forces in the first Gulf War has Good afternoon. Police say a six-

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year-old girl is on her way home to the UK, more than three years after

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she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan. Atiya Anjum-

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Wilkinson was last seen when she was taken from her home in Greater

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Manchester in 2009. Her father is serving a prison sentence for

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refusing to reveal his daughter's whereabouts. Our correspondent Ed

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Thomas is at Manchester Airport now. When is she due here? She will be

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due here later tonight. We are told the flight from Pakistan has been

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delayed. It should get in around 7.30pm but still this is a mother

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who has never given up her campaign to try to be reunited with her

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daughter. Today she was told that she was being held with her

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father's extended family and soon the most cruellest of waits will be

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over. Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson was three

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when she was abducted by her father and left in Pakistan. Until now her

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mother had no proof her daughter was alive. Just a text message from

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Razwan Ali Anjum, the child's father. He sent me a message to say

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that I was never going to see Atiya again, basically laughing in the

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text message. She was taken in 2009, a day before her third birthday.

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Her father said he was taking her to Southport. Instead, they boarded

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a plane to Pakistan. She recently made an emotional appeal for

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information. Today, she was told her six-year-old is safe and on her

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way home. Police released this image in November of the way the

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six-year-old might look now. It's believed the authorities in

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Pakistan used this to help find her. The children's charity Reunite says

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despite today's news it's still a delicate situation. For the mother

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it would have been extremely difficult, extremely painful. I

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think the worst times really are at night when you are thinking about

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your child and don't know if they're hurt, calling out for you.

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You just can't be there with them. For the mother for three years,

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extremely hurtful. A mother has remembered her constantly, even

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buying birthday presents for her missing daughter. The waiting will

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soon be over. Police say Atiya is on her way home on a flight to

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arrive at Manchester. She was due to land at 5.00pm, that's been put

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back to around 7.00pm this evening. It will be a delicate situation. We

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don't know if she can speak English. We don't know what memories this

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six-year-old girl has of living here in Manchester. I suppose those

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are questions for another day. Today is about a mother being

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reunited with her daughter. Thank you very much.

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Details of Lady Thatcher's shock at the Argentine attack on the

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Falkland Islands in 1982, and her determination to expel the invaders,

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are revealed in once-secret documents made public today. The

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papers show that she'd had no idea Argentina would try to seize the

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islands by force, as Peter Biles reports.

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April 2nd, 1982, Argentine forces came ashore in the Falklands and

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within hours the capital Stanley was under their control. Later,

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giving evidence in private to an official inquiry, Margaret Thatcher

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said she had not thought an invasion was likely until two days

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On March 31st 1982 Margaret Thatcher saw the raw raw

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intelligence that suggested an invasion of the Falklands was

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imminent. Later she told the inquiry: It was

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the worst, I think, moment of my life.

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Because it was then she realised just how serious this was. She went

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on to write, that night no one could tell me whether we could

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retake the Falklands. No one, we did not know. We did not know.

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The transcript of Mrs Thatcher's evidence to the inquiry is one of

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the most powerful pieces of paper I can remember being declassified

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here in the archives. For a number of reasons. One is, it's three

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months roughly speaking after the end of the war, so it's immensely

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vivid. It's still coarsing through her veins. The files show Mrs

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Thatcher applied strong pressure on the President of France to prevent

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the delivery of missiles to Peru. She feared the weapons would end up

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in Argentina. In a confidential I have just heard the white flag is

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flying over Stanley! On June 14th, 15,000 Argentine troops surrendered.

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Initially Margaret Thatcher and her Ministers had not foreseen the

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Argentine invasion of the Falklands. But the papers here in the archives

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reveal that 30 years ago Argentina was also taken by surprise. They

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had not thought British forces would sail 8,000 miles and defend a

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population of 1,800. Letters exchanged by Jimmy Savile

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and Lady Thatcher in the 1980s have also been made public. The

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correspondence, deals mainly with the work of the DJ for charity.

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David Sillito is here now. What is in these letters? If these had come

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out a year ago it would have been, well, who would have paid attention

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to it? Suddenly we see because it's Jimmy Savile, the level of

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connection between him, a DJ, a charity fundraiser, and the Prime

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Minister, meetings at Downing Street, the letters, phone calls,

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messages from civil servants asking Margaret Thatcher just what exactly

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is it you have promised over lunch? Have you promised to go on Jim'll

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Fix It? The word no is written on that note. Also we see Jimmy

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Savile's handwriten letters and twoupb Margaret Thatcher -- and one

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to Margaret Thatcher. Phrases we wouldn't have paid attention to a

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year ago take on a new context when he talks about talking to the girl

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patients at a hospital, how they were all pretending to be jealous

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because of his meetings with Margaret Thatcher, the paralysed

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lads and he signs off saying, they all love you and he adds himself,

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me, too. So there was obviously a closeness and a relationship and

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it's a glimpse, especially given that not all of this material has

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been released, some of it will be still secret for another ten years.

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Thank you. Two girls, aged seven and ten, have

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died after the car they were travelling in, crashed in

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Cambridgeshire. The accident happened on the A47 near Wisbeech

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last night. Two adults and another child, who were in the same car,

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are being treated in hospital, although their injuries are not

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believed to be serious. A new campaign to try to get

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smokers to quit has been launched today in England. The Department of

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Health says just 15 cigarettes can cause cells to mutate and lead to

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cancerous tumours. Health officials say the campaign is in response to

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figures which show that a third of smokers think the health risks of

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smoking are greatly exaggerated. Our health correspondent Dominic

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Hughes has the details. When you smoke, the chemicals you

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inhale cause mutations in your body. Mutations are how cancer starts.

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This television ad is designed to show that every cigarette is

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harmful. It's aimed at those who think the dangers associated with

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smoking are he canage rated. exaggerated. We watch to catch all

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smokers, particularly the young who won't have seen the hard-hitting

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campaigns before because they don't understand what damage is happening

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in their bodies and what the risks are. If we look at England around

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one in five people over the age of 16 are smokers. Last year more than

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800,000 people accessed services like this in order to try and give

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up. After four weeks half of them had succeeded. But half of them had

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failed. Giving up smoking can be a real challenge.

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But stop smoking services do have their successes. Ten months ago,

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Paul did manage to give up after smoking for 32 years. It's a sense

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of achievement. You think that's it, you are done? Yeah. It can't get

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any harder than the last time. Doctors say half of all smokers die

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from smoking-related diseases. This latest campaign will be judged on

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how many people can be persuaded to stop for good.

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Cases of the winter vomiting bug Norovirus in England and Wales have

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risen to over a million. The latest figures have been released and our

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health correspondent is here. What do the figures show? It's sadly it

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suggests a lot of families might have had a miserable Christmas with

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this vomiting bug. In the last week, there have been around 3,500

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confirmed cases, those are the ones that are tested in the lab. For

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every single one of those it's thought there are around 288

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further people suffering at home quietly on their own which takes us

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to the running total of more than a million. Cases are running higher

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than as usual at this time of year. This is peaking slightly earlier.

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We don't know whether or not this is as bad as it's going to get or

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if it will improve slightly over the next few weeks. But if you are

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at home and suffering, the advice is to rest, drink lots of fluids

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and keep everything clean, especially your hands. Thank you.

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A new witness protection service is being set up to improve support for

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people whose lives are at risk after giving evidence in criminal

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trials. About 3,000 people are currently living with new

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identities in different parts of the UK but there's been criticism

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that the quality of support is patchy. Here's our home affairs

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correspondent Matt Prodger. Being a a witness in a trial can be

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a fearful experience but it's usually the only way to put

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dangerous criminals in prison. Paul, not his real name, turned

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supergrass after he confessed to being the inside man on a major

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robbery. Giving evidence against his co-conspirators meant leaving

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behind his home and family and getting a new identity. My family I

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don't see them at all, in the last five years I have probably seen

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them twice. I have to start again under false pretenses without the

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support of family and and friends. There are 600 cases where

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individuals or entire families have been relocated. Police officers say

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the number's growing at a faster rate but last year more than a

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quarter of collapsed prosecutions were due to reluctance to give

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evidence. Witnesses are unsung heros. They are our champions of

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justice. We cannot do it without them. I would urge them, please be

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brave, please come forward. If you do, we will protect you. The new

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service will introduce national standards, better co-ordination and

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intelligence-sharing. But most of all, it's meant to reassure those

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who fear that giving evidence is too much of a risk.

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Police in Australia say the two radio presenters involved in a hoax

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call to the London hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being

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treated are unlikely to face prosecution. A senior officer from

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New South Wales says Scotland Yard haven't asked him to interview the

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DJs, who posed as the Queen and Prince Charles. The American

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military commander most closely associated with the first Gulf war,

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Norman Schwarzkopf, has died. He was 78. Known as Stormin' Norman,

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the General led troops from more than 30 countries to end Iraq's

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occupation of Kuwait in 1991. Richard Galpin looks back at his

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life. 1991, the first Gulf War and

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coalition forces, led by the United States, pound the Iraqi military

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which had occupied Kuwait. Victory was swift. Iraqi troops either

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captured, killed or forced to flee from Kuwait.

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It was a defining moment for General Norman Schwarzkopf, the man

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who had commanded the coalition of more than 30 countries in Operation

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Desert Storm. Despite the fact that you are vastly outnumbered, you

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were determined to show a dictator that they just can't get away with

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bullying their neighbours and taking what they want because they

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think they're so tough. Is that why there is little opposition? We are

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not going underneath, any other way... Nicknamed Stormin' Norman,

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had become a household name. His forthright news conferences during

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the conflict watched around the world.

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And when he finally arrived back in the United States he received a

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hero's welcome. It's a great day to be a soldier and it's a great day

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to be an American. Thank you very much.

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For him the victory in the Gulf War was the pinnacle of a long military

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career. Decades earlier, he had been a much decorated combat

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soldier in Vietnam. But soon after retiring he was diagnosed with

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cancer. He was treated and then campaigned to raise awareness of

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