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Kuwaiti Shiite MP Abdulhamid Dashti speaks during a parliament session at the National Assembly in Kuwait City on March 5, 2013. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
Kuwaiti MP Saleh Ashour speaks during a parliament session at Kuwait's national assembly in Kuwiat City on February 11 during which MPs approved a... KUWAIT-PARLIAMENT-ECONOMY-BUDGET-DEVELOPMENT Kuwaiti security member stands guard during the demonstration of supporters of Kuwaiti opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to protest...
Kuwaiti Shiite member of parliament Abdulhameed Dashti speaks during a parliament session at Kuwait's national assembly in Kuwait City on November 4, 2015. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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Official figures from the US military for their losses of personnel during the 1990-1991 Gulf War are well recorded, with a total of 298 men and women killed and 467 wounded across the services. Losses of equipment, however, are less clear. Wikipedia, for example, lists the loss or disabling of 31 M1 tanks, 28 Bradley IFVs, and a single M113for US ...
Camp Doha was a large sprawling military compound located at Ad Dawah, a small projection of land jutting out into Kuwait Bay about 15 km west of Kuwait City. In the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Kuwait from the occupying Iraqi forces, this base was a hub for the US military buzzing with daily activity. Roughly rectangular in shape, lyin...
It was this motor pool area which was being used as a wash-point for vehicles when a fire began. The vehicles concerned belonged to 2nd Squadron, US 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR), the only part of 11th Cavalry still in the base, as the other two squadrons had been deployed to the field on 11th July to serve as a deterrence against Iraqi aggre...
The first explosion took place in the original M992 in which the fire had started and not only wrecked that vehicle but also scattered artillery submunitions (bomblets) over numerous vehicles nearby. Each M992 was capable of holding up to 95 rounds (92 x 155 mm shells of various types such as High Explosive, and 3 M712 155 mm Copperhead rounds). Ju...
After several hours, around 16:00 hours, it was possible for some kind of assessment to be made of the damage to what was a combat-ready unit in a high-risk zone post-war. Numerous troops had been injured in the dash to safety, as troops scattered from the northern compound, although there were no fatalities. Some 50 US and 6 British troops reporte...
Some 102 vehicles were lost during the accident, including 3 M1A1 Abrams, an unknown number of M992 Ammunition Carriers, and other vehicles from HMMWVs to Bridgelayers. It was, however, not the vehicle losses which were the most serious fallout from this accident but the cleanup. The M1A1s which were lost had, like the M992s, been loaded with ammun...
The day after the fire, a formal damage assessment was begun, having notified US Army Armament Munitions and Chemical Command (AMCCOM) and Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) beforehand as required (due to the presence of DU). AMCCOM was to decontaminate the M1A1 tanks, and CECOM was supposed to remove them. The first week of cleanup wo...
Several reports followed the incident, which could have been much worse. Three troops had died during the cleanup, 4 tanks lost, 7 M109 and 7 M992 Ammunition Carriers, 4 AVLBs, and 40 or so smaller and light vehicles, such as HMMWVs, amounting to around US$23.3m (1991 values) and about US$14.7m (1991 values) worth of ammunition. An additional US$2....
Video of the fire – ammunition can be heard cooking off in the fire. Source: John Faherty on Youtube Video of the fire. Source: Video by Ray Hasil, uploaded by Bruce Gibson on Youtube Aftermath of the fire (the white building in the background is the British HQ. Source: MSIAC (left) and ndiastorage (right)
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A former Kuwaiti lawmaker is now facing a total of more than 42 years in prison for making 'offensive' comments about Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. A Kuwaiti appeals court convicted former Shia MP ...
Mar 3, 2021 · 3 Mar 2021. Kuwait’s new cabinet has been sworn in, weeks after the government quit amid a deepening deadlock with Parliament that has blocked badly needed reforms in the oil-rich Gulf Arab ...
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