Recently landmines were found on a beach in Al Bida’a which I find scary as hell since it’s a populated area and one that is pretty active with people. A couple of years back while installing my internet connection on the roof of my building we found a rusted bullet belt filled with ammunition along with a rifle. A couple of weeks back I found out KOC was still cleaning up the soil in the desert from the oil spills caused by the Iraqi army. Even though its been 26 years since the 1990 Gulf War, remnants from the war are still around today. I feel like sometimes we forget Kuwait was occupied at one point, but I guess thats normal since it happened such a long time ago.
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This reminds me of when I came to visit shortly after the invasion was over. I was on the pier right in front of Chili’s next to the towers. At the time, there was no aqua park. So, we’re just at the end of the pier fishing, and there are explosions going off where the future aqua park would be. Turns out the authorities were safely disposing of what I assumed were landmines, but now realize could have been any explosive type of ordinance. My dad still has a video of it somewhere.
Considering there are still WWII left overs, that’s not much of a surprise.
We are working with a South African company called MECHEM in KOC north Kuwait and South Kuwait. We found rockeye’s and blu 61 submunition while cleaning up the soil in the desert from the oil spills
Hi Sherif, I’d be really interested to learn more about that cleanup work. I’m former US Navy EOD.