Mother of All Tractors
Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq —
Baghdad unveiled a new tractor Saturday and named it al-Nida’a (the call), after the day it invaded Kuwait. Iraq named Aug. 2, 1990, “the day of the call,” saying it sent troops into Kuwait in response to a call for help from the “Provisional Free Kuwait Government.”
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