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https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/03/world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-the-oilfield-lying-below-the-iraq-kuwait-dispute.html https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/03/worl

• mieseratte 7y ago
  > Some Iraqi officials have accused Kuwait in the past of using advanced drilling techniques developed by Amer ican oilfield specialists to siphon oil from the Rumaila field, a charge that American drillers deny, noting that the oil flows easily from the Rumaila field without any need for these techniques. I’m not sure if I trust a genocidal tyrant or an oil company. Perhaps it’s a bit much to claim Kuwait was asking for it.