Crude insult Recovery is slow from a Gulf War act of vandalism
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Richa Syal
or 10 months in Kuwait, everything was upside down. Daytime was full of darkness from thick smoke, and the nights were bright from the distant glow of burning oilwells. When Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the occupation of Kuwait in August 1990, in a bid to gain control over the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East and pay off a massive debt accrued from Kuwait, he was forced into retreat by
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