Gulf War oil spill
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gulf-war-oil-spill-164-16261528
title:
Gulf War oil spill
text:
The Gulf War oil spill, or the "Persian Gulf oil spill", was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. In January 1991, Iraqi forces allegedly began dumping oil into the Persian Gulf to stop a U.S. coalition-led water landing on their shores. Despite quite high initial estimates, the spill likely was about 4,000,000 US barrels. Within the following months of the spill, most clean-up was targeted at recovering oil, and very little clean-up was done on Saudi Ar
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encyclopedia
description:
1991 Iraqi action in the Persian Gulf
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_oil_spill
date created:
2005-02-20T22:15:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:00:00Z
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