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[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/amanpour/poolsystem.html by CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR PBS] | [https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/amanpour/poolsystem.html by CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR PBS] | ||
During the Gulf War, when this draconian new philosophy of censorship came in, suddenly we found ourselves in these pools. Now, I had been covering the whole buildup, ever since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait [in 1990], so I really hoped to be able to cover the war as well. Instead, like in roulette, we were picked and put into pools. | During the Gulf War, when this draconian new philosophy of censorship came in, suddenly we found ourselves in these pools. Now, I had been covering the whole buildup, ever since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait [in 1990], so I really hoped to be able to cover the war as well. Instead, like in roulette, we were picked and put into pools. | ||
=====Mobile, Alabama===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/mobile by PBS] | |||
Mobile, Alabama, before the war, was a sleepy southern town of 112,000, whose only real industry was shipbuilding, as it had been since the Great War a generation earlier. Discovered by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, colonized by the French, taken over by the British, then by the Spanish and finally incorporated into the United States in 1812, the city boasted a diverse, cosmopolitan population. | |||
