In memory of my grandfather, Robert Bell, M.M., Gallant Soldier
The winds of heaven are blowing. Implement all that is on the table. May God be with you.
– Coded message,
Iraq Radio, Baghdad
January 1991
The mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street when the War Cabinet was meeting at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, 7 February 1991, is now a matter of history. It has never been satisfactorily explained. Perhaps it went something like this…