Originally Posted by
ORAC
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: