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Old 23rd Nov 2021, 19:23
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SLXOwft
 
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The BBC is repeating the claims that there were UK military personnel on board and 'the flight was being used for a secret intelligence mission'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59388975

If the statements of those on board are to be taken at face value I can't imagine the Mukhabarat would have taken long to extract the information from them.

I assume this is all trigerred by the release today of 33 related FCO files:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Files Released

Tuesday 23 November 2021Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Files Released

Today we have released FCO files relating to a British Airways flight (BA149) which landed in Kuwait City in the early hours of 2 August 1990, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began.

All the files have been digitised and can be found at the following links:
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