VOL. XXXIV

NO. 4

29-OCTOBER-1990

Iraq/Kuwait

Iraq Mines Kuwaiti Oil Wells

According to the London Financial Times of 26 October, which quotes a KuwaitOil Company (KOC) senior engineer who fled Kuwait last week, the Iraqis have"rigged more than 300 of Kuwait's 1,000 oil wells with explosives as aprecaution against an attack." The report states that although Kuwaitiexiles have previously reported the Iraqi mining of the oilfields, this is thefirst detailed information to emerge. The KOC engineer...