Back ملجأ العامرية Arabic Бамбардзіроўка бамбасховішча Амірыя Byelorussian അമീറിയ ഷെൽട്ടർ കൂട്ടക്കൊല Malayalam Bloedbad in de schuilplaats van Amiriyah Dutch Bombardeio do abrigo de Amiriyah Portuguese Бомбардировка бомбоубежища Амирия Russian 阿米里亚防空洞轰炸 Chinese
| Amiriyah shelter bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Gulf War | |
 Interior of the shelter, currently maintained as a memorial to the bombing | |
| Type | Airstrike |
| Location | Al-A'amiriya, Baghdad, Iraq 33°17′50″N 44°16′50″E / 33.29722°N 44.28056°E |
| Date | February 13, 1991 |
| Executed by |  United States Air Force |
| Casualties | 408+ killed Unknown injured |
  Al-A'amiriya Location of Al-A'amiriya within Iraq | |
The Amiriyah shelter bombing[N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".[1][2] The U.S. Department of Defense stated that they "knew the [Amiriyah] facility had been used as a civil-defense shelter during the Iran–Iraq War",[3] while the U.S. military stated they believed the shelter was no longer a civil defense shelter and that they thought it had been converted to a command center or a military personnel bunker.
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- ^ Jeenah, Na'eem (July 2001). "Al-Amariyah - A Graveyard of unwilling martyrs". Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/firethistimeuswa00clar U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, The Fire This Time, U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf, 1992
- ^ "Needless Deaths In The Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War". Human Rights Watch. 1991.
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