The Lockwood family has been moved out of the 5 star hotel where they were being held hostage by the Iraqi government in Baghdad. Their new location is an office building in the middle of an industrial section of Baghdad. 

The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament made a public statement, defining why the hostages are being housed at certain locations around Iraq. Iraq is using them as human shields, and providing them accommodations at power plants, chemical factories, ports and government buildings to deter the US, Britain and their allies from bombing these locations if they decide to intervene militarily. 

And it’s not just in Iraq, the Chappell family from BA Flight 149 is being kept next to a chemical factory in newly acquired Kuwait, for the same purpose, but their conditions are much worse.  

For Season One: we take a trip back to 1990, to the first Gulf War and Desert Storm. We follow the frightening and unlikely tale of a British family and many others, who were working or vacationing in the middle east at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and how these unlikely westerners became an official part of Saddam Hussein's military strategy. 

Join Host, Producer, and Modern History Enthusiast Robb Coles to revisit and walk through the big news stories that were breaking in the background of millennial childhood.

Sources: 
Diary of a Human Shield by Glenda Lockwood
With It or In It: Desert Shield and Storm from the Loader's Hatch by Bacil Donovan Warren
The Last Flight to Kuwait: BBC 
Saddam’s Shields: 
The United States and Hostage-Taking During the First Gulf War by Matthew Gailani 
Live from Baghdad Book: Robert Wiener 
Live from Baghdad Film: HBO


Interviews: Bacil Donovan Warren, Matthew Gailani