Middle East Focus: On the Gulf: Another Criminal Legacy of the Ba’ath………

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On the Gulf: Another Criminal Legacy of the Ba’ath………

“It has been nearly 20 years since Saddam Hussein’s occupation army wilted under the coalition forces’ onslaught and scrambled back up the road to Iraq, leaving 798 exploded oil wells by which Kuwait would remember its seven-month occupation. The resulting infernos were under control within a year, but the legacy of Iraq’s scorched-earth policy – destroying anything that advancing enemies can use – continues to fester. Crude oil that leaked from the wells mixed with formation waters and more than six billion gallons of seawater used to extinguish the fires, forming sludge-filled “oil lakes” that scar more than 100 square kilometres of local desert. Since that time, thousands of oil lakes, largely located on restricted land owned by Kuwait Oil Co (KOC) have sat like an open sore, ravaging the desert’s fragile ecosystem. The catastrophe has killed fauna and flora and the contaminants have seeped into the ground, polluting the freshwater aquifers in the north of the country. This week, under pressure from the United Nations and companies that are baying for clean-up contracts, Kuwait National Focal Point (KNFP), which is in charge of planning the remediation of the soil, convened a forum to try to kick-start the rehabilitation……….”

We spent months breathing in the poisonous black air from these 798 burning wells. Just another reason why the Ba'ath Party should never be allowed to come to power in Iraq, under any name.
One more reason, one of many, why Iyad Allawi and his gaggle of past and current Ba’athist criminals will not return to power in Baghdad, as per my standing fatwa.
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