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Tuesday, 16 January, 2001, 08:45 GMT
In pictures: Desert Storm
Ten years after the Gulf War, BBC News Online looks back at images from the conflict:

Kuwaiti soldier
A Kuwaiti soldier with a machine gun stands silhouetted on the skyline

British soldiers
British Army soldiers are given injections against the effects of a possible chemical atteck

Laser-guided bombs
British and US forces prepare to launch laser-guided bombs on Iraq

Spent missile
A US soldier examines the wreckage of a missile, believed to be a Scud, which landed in Saudi Arabia

Burning Oil Wells
A cow stands in front of burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Iraqi forces in the al-Ahmadi oil fields near Kuwait City

French soldiers
French soldiers patrol under a mural of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Southern Iraq

Iraqi Prisoners of War
An Egyptian soldier guards Iraqi prisoners in the Kuwaiti desert

A Kuwaiti celebrates
A Kuwaiti raises his arms in celebration as Allied forces arrive in Kuwait City

Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein speaks on television for the first time after Iraq's defeat

Liberation of Kuwait
Kuwait City celebrates after the liberation

New York celebrations
New Yorkers celebrate the end of the Gulf War

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