Volume 38, Number 10 · May 30, 1991
Kuwait: The Last Forty-Eight Hours
By Andrew Whitley
Just beyond Jahra, a satellite town of the cheap, two-storied houses favored by Kuwait's one-time army of Arab and Asian 'guest workers,' the highway northward to Basra narrows from six lanes to four. A concrete divide separates incoming from departing traffic. During the night of February 25, when the Iraqis at last gave the order for their troops to leave Kuwait, the heavy concrete blocks dividing and narrowing the road funneled the escaping Iraqi army and Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilians accompanying it into a lethal killing zone.
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