Mubarak endorsed American and British plan to humiliate Saddam in Kuwait, predicting his regime’s fall, British documents reveal

Newly declassified British documents reveal that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak supported US and British plans to militarily defeat Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, suggesting that his regime would fall post-defeat. Mubarak advised UK Prime Minister John Major to disregard Arab public opinion and emphasized the importance of humiliating Saddam to ensure his removal by his own generals.

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