Page 5 - CBS Newspaper - March '17 edition
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With Kuwait finally which are a group of order of the Iraqi
getting its three slender towers. president Saddam
independence, a lot of These towers are now a Hussain.
things changed in the world renowned cultural
Several battles occurred
country. and touristic landmark. between the Kuwaiti and
the Iraqi army, until
Tourism in Kuwait The towers were orders were given to the
By Abdullah Tahan officially inaugurated as Kuwaiti army to pull
Grade 11 a tourist back and go to Dasman
attraction Palace, to escort the
The Liberation Tower is in Kuwait Amir out of Kuwait.
the second tallest tower and as When the orders were
in Kuwait. They used to an icon given to pull back, the
of
call this tower the modern Ministry of Defence,
Kuwait Tele- Kuwait in Ministry of Interior
communications Tower. 1979. Affairs, and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs fell
Its construction began The which led to the collapse
before the Iraqi invasion Kuwait of Kuwait. This would
and then had to be Towers later be known as the
stopped. Luckily, the consist of Gulf War.
structure suffered no a mixture
of Kuwait and the UAE
damage during the various
conflict and was colors increased the production
of oil leading to the
eventually completed. It that symbolize the decrease of oil prices,
was given the name harmony between the which led to collapse of
“Liberation Tower” blue sea waters and the the Iraqi economy.
because it was rising sky in Kuwait.
Due to their importance
completed after Iraqi to Kuwait, they are Operation Desert Storm
forces were expelled placed in the heart of began on January 17,
1991, a day after the
from Kuwait. Kuwait and can be seen deadline date finished
from many miles away.
Gulf War
By Bassam al-Tawfiqi
Grade 11
On August 2, 1990, at
sunrise, Kuwait was
Another piece of famous
awoken to the sound of
architecture in Kuwait tanks and bombs of the
are the Kuwait Iraqi army which
International Towers, invaded Kuwait by the
