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KUWAIT ZWEITER GOLFKRIEG
An abandoned Iraqi Soviet-made T-62 tank sits in Kuwaiti desert 02 April 1991 as an oil wells of the Al-Ahmadi oil field is burning in the background. In 1991, Iraqi troops retreating after a seven-month occupation, smashed and torched 727 wells, badly polluting the atmosphere and creating crude oil lakes. In addition, up to eight billion barrels of oil were split into the sea by Iraqi forces damaging marine life and coastal areas up to 400 kilometres (250 miles) away. (KEYSTONE/AFP/Pascal Guyot)
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Lizenz
Rights Managed
Erstellungsdatum
19910402
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AL-AHMADI OIL FIELD KUWAIT
Credit
KEYSTONE
Source
AFP
Byline
PASCAL GUYOT
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