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- 01Kuwait's slant-drilling into the Rumaila field, shared with Iraq, gave Saddam his stated casus belli.
- 02100,000 Iraqi troops and 700 tanks crossed the border in the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990.
- 03US Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam days before that America had 'no opinion' on Arab border disputes.