Extraordinary Footage of Kuwait Oil Fires in Gulf War's Aftermath (1991)

On 2 August 1991, one year after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and five months since the country's liberation, ITN reported on the post-war programme of reconstruction underway in the oil-rich emirate. In Kuwait City, cameras found everywhere the scars of occupation. Iraqi bunkers and trenches remained abandoned by the roadsides, while bomb-damaged buildings tottered over rubble-strewn streets. Captured Iraqi tanks, armour, and artillery gathered dust near the Shuwaikh Port. Out in the desert, international organisations assisted the round-the-clock effort to extinguish the oil fires that had been started by fleeing Iraqi forces in the final days of Operation Desert Storm, and which had continued to cause widespread environmental devastation since. ITN also filmed British workers of Royal Ordnance as they worked, amidst the oil rains, to safely dispose of unexploded bombs dropped left behind by the international coalition.
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[@patmanapsal4762]

Thanks for this videos. This teaches the world to avoid war. War destroys lives & property & civilization.

[@rakan9151]

Great post please put anything about Kuwait in 1990 - 1991 🇰🇼♥️

[@US_Joe]

Great post - Thanks 👍👍👍

[@piyushsrivastavjaipuriasch8356]

Pearl of KZbin videos.👍

[@Qwar_-we3bp]

Please put any video about kuwait 1990 / 1991 ❤❤❤

[@command-pidd7979-WhiteBrown]

Spectacular thumbnail chosen for the video.

[@TheMongex]

I remember reading about this company and how they made millions putting this fires out. This and the burn people on that highway made a huge impression on me. And the very begining, the trazers on the kuwaity night when the coalition air attack comenced... wich, opposite to this, looked almost like fireworks at new years celebrations.. not the war it really was. Amazing documents. Thanks!

[@MichaelBosley]

I wonder what the cancer rates were like for those Ordinance guys.

[@ginocavazos2153]

Saddam's message was if I can't have it nobody's going to have it

[@ginocavazos2153]

Saddam's message by doing that was if I can't have it nobody's going to have it

[@ihrluegt]

why usa joins war between kuwait and iraq? kuwait was not NATO member. this was an internal arab affair there was no need of an international coalition

[@ginocavazos2153]

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