How a Retreating Army Caused One of The Worlds Worst Environmental Disasters | Plainly Difficult
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Date: 2023-12-23

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During the closing days of the Gulf War 1991, retreating Iraqi forces, deliberately set hundreds of oil fields on fire, creating one of the worst man made environmental disasters in history......

It would become one big headachefor emergency and disaster managers!

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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/20014FNJ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000017%5C20014FNJ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&Display=p%7Cf&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1
2 https://registry.csd.disa.mil/registryWeb/docs/registry/owfsr/Final%20Rpt,%20Kuwait%20Oil%20Fire%20HRA.pdf
3
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33898896.pdf
4
​​https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/gulfwar/sources/oil-well-fires.asp#:~:text=Particles%20from%20oil%20well%20fires,of%20sinus%20and%20asthma%20conditions.
5
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zCAJdFTYExgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241071/pd


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