The Persian Gulf War
Only recently have the full details of this war come to light. Iraq and Syria, united as the Ba'ath Republic of Mesopatamia, were invaded from the south by forces of the United States and the Coalition, from the west by Israel, and from the north (with surprising permission from Iran to move troops through thier nation, though Iran were officially neutral) in the final act of the Red Army before the dissolution of the USSR. What was once thought to be a global intervention to prevent the massacre of Kurds in the north of the country, turned out to have a much more sinister reason.
The Secret History
In 1987, the Ba'ath Republic began constuction of the worlds largest transmitter, an array in the desert stretching over seven square miles. It was secret for a while, but soon intelligence agencies the world over put two and two together, looking at the contractors hired, the materials purchased, and realised that something was up. The UN Security Council held a secret emergency meeting in 1988, and ordered a secret resolution, to force the Ba'ath Republic to halt construction until they allowed inspectors to survey the transmitter, and to review the message that was to be sent. The Ba'athists refused. They refused to even acknowledge that the transmitter was anything more than a radio telescope.
The UNSC became worried, not only because of what they did know, but also because of what they didn't. Why build this transmitter? Why now? To say what to who? Teams of analysts poured over ET's transmissions, reviewing the decoded messages, and redoubled decoding efforts on every unknown. They had to figure out what, if anything, was talking to the Ba'athists.
But the investment in the transmitter did not prevent the Ba'athist's from engaging in other activities. The persecution and genocide of the Kurds. So the UNSC issued a public resolution, that the Ba'athists must begin steps to form a Kurdish republic. Iran and Turkey were issued similar resolutions, and they followed, but the Ba'athists refused. Tensions mounted as the US formed a coalition and built up thier forces in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The USSR built up thier forces in the Caucasus, and war seemed inevitable.
In April 1990, the Ba'ath Republic gave in to the resolution, and granted began actions to grant the Kurds a republic of thier own. The world at large breathed a sigh of relief, while the UNSC, in secret, became even more worried. Several months passed, as every nation decried the continued build-up in the Middle East. On the first of August 1990, the transmitter became active, sending it's message into space, towards Ross 614. At midnight, the Ba'ath Republic was invaded and the Persian Gulf War began.
To this day, the war is full of unanswered questions, even for those in the know. The message itself has never been decoded. The ET linguists who worked on it for the Ba'athists are all dead, executed on the first of August. While the signals from Ross 614 have been, for the most part, decoded, there is no clue in them as to why the Ba'athists needed to send a signal back. The Ba'ath Armed Forces mostly deployed old Soviet materiel, along with some F-14s apparently captured during the First Gulf War with Iran, but there were also some surprises. They deployed ECM that could shut down electronics, even those hardened to EMP. They deployed armour similar to explosive reactive armour on their tanks, which was resistant to the main gun of a M1A1. They deployed soldiers drafted from POW's of the war with Iran, almost all of whom fought to the death for thier former enemies. The origin of these technologies or techniques has never been determined, even after eight years of occupation and eleven years of civilian government investigations.
Even the coalition has been implicated in some part, as doubt has been cast over the time frame of the Kurdish gassings. While they were always thought to be the casus belli for a hot war, we now know that it was the transmitter which caused it. Did they happen? Yes, the evidence is there for anyone who cares to travel to Kurdistan. But did it happen before the war? Was it even the Ba'athists who launched the attacks, or was it a false flag operation orchestrated by the Coalition?
