Red fire on the mountain: Saddam Hussein’s secrets still haunt the landscape

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Twenty-five years after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles at Israel, the residents of Mount Shingal reveal a secret about the 1991 Gulf War.

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Iraqi anti-aircraft fire and tracer flares light up the sky above Baghdad on January 17, 1991, as US and allied bombing raids launched the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. (photo credit:REUTERS)

From the top of the mountain you can see hundreds of kilometers in all directions because of the height,” recalls Sharaf (not his real name), a Yazidi man from Iraqi Kurdistan who speaks in a phone interview.

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