On 2 August 1991, one year after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and five months since the country's liberation, ITN reported on the post-war programme of reconstruction underway in the oil-rich emirate. In Kuwait City, cameras found everywhere the scars of occupation. Iraqi bunkers and trenches remained abandoned by the roadsides, while bomb-damaged buildings tottered over rubble-strewn streets. Captured Iraqi tanks, armour, and artillery gathered dust near the Shuwaikh Port. Out in the desert, international organisations assisted the round-the-clock effort to extinguish the oil fires that had been started by fleeing Iraqi forces in the final days of Operation Desert Storm, and which had continued to cause widespread environmental devastation since. ITN also filmed British workers of Royal Ordnance as they worked, amidst the oil rains, to safely dispose of unexploded bombs dropped left behind by the international coalition.

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