THE BURNING SANDS OF IRAQ
Firefighters try to put out what terrorists have started
by KARL VICK
Jun 17, 2017
1 minute
WHEN ISIS RETREATED FROM THE BROKEN PLAINS south of Mosul last August, its militants did what defeated armies do in these parts: they scorched the earth. Saddam Hussein’s soldiers set alight some 700 oil wells on their way out of Kuwait in 1991, and after the 2003 U.S.
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