OIL FIELD FIRES IN KUWAIT DURING THE FIRST GULF WAR WERE SET BY BRITISH AGENTS IN PROPAGANDA PLOT TO "DEMONIZE" IRAQ--says former British agent who was forced to help set them.
Eve Martin told me that at the time of the first Gulf war, when she would have been about 19 years old, she was taken to Kuwait on a mission. She said she had no choice; that she would have been killed if she refused to go. I was skeptical and attempted to raise several objections to that. I pointed out that she was over the age of 18, an adult, and nobody could legally force her to go anyplace. I said they could not take her out of the U.K. because all she had to do was to raise a fuss while passing through airport security at Heathrow, and say she was being kidnapped, and her uncles would have been detained by the police until she was out of their sight at least, and could get away. She insisted that would not have happened, that no matter what she said, the police would not do anything to help her escape.
Eve Martin told me that at the time of the first Gulf war, when she would have been about 19 years old, she was taken to Kuwait on a mission. She said she had no choice; that she would have been killed if she refused to go. I was skeptical and attempted to raise several objections to that. I pointed out that she was over the age of 18, an adult, and nobody could legally force her to go anyplace. I said they could not take her out of the U.K. because all she had to do was to raise a fuss while passing through airport security at Heathrow, and say she was being kidnapped, and her uncles would have been detained by the police until she was out of their sight at least, and could get away. She insisted that would not have happened, that no matter what she said, the police would not do anything to help her escape.
I suggested that since she would have had to have a passport to leave the country, she could have managed to give her uncle the slip in the crowded airport concourse and buy a ticket for immediate departure to some other country at the airport check-in desk of some other airline and never go back to the U.K. She insisted she would not have been allowed to board an airplane without clearance from her uncles.
She was taken along to be used as bait to lure Iraqi sentries away from their posts to a spot where her brothers could ambush them. And on one occasion their position was attacked and she was forced to fire upon a small detachment of oncoming Iraqi troops. She feels guilty about this because they were only conscripts following orders, but she says she had no choice because they were the "enemy".
When I pointed out that she was also a conscript and her real enemies were not the Iraqis, but the Gourvenecs who had forced her into this situation, she seemed unable to follow the logic of that. This reminded me of American draftees in Viet Nam who considered the Viet Cong their enemies, and failed to realize the Viet Cong were not their enemies and their real enemy was the American government that had forced them to go there.
The Gourvenecs' mission was to set Kuwaiti oil fields on fire. The oil well fires resulting from the war were one of the worst environmental disasters in history, with repercussions throughout the Middle East, and as far as India. It will take centuries for the environment to recover, if it ever does.
A search for information on the oil field fires showed that more than 700 oil wells were set on fire, and mines were deployed around the wells to delay fire-fighters from fighting the fires until the mines could be removed. The wartime propaganda at the time was that the retreating Iraqi army had set the fires as a scorched earth policy to cover their retreat.
Eve said the purpose of the mission to set Kuwaiti oil fields on fire was part of a wartime propaganda effort to "demonize" Sadam Hussein in the eyes of the world. This was done at the request of the British government. A secondary purpose was to obtain the lucrative fire-fighting contract to put out the fires for the U.S. based oil field fire-fighting company headed by the late Red O'dair. Apparently both were paying the Gourvenecs for the job without either being aware the other was also paying for it and it would have been done anyway.
Eve said the purpose of the mission to set Kuwaiti oil fields on fire was part of a wartime propaganda effort to "demonize" Sadam Hussein in the eyes of the world. This was done at the request of the British government. A secondary purpose was to obtain the lucrative fire-fighting contract to put out the fires for the U.S. based oil field fire-fighting company headed by the late Red O'dair. Apparently both were paying the Gourvenecs for the job without either being aware the other was also paying for it and it would have been done anyway.
There are several implication of this story. If Eve's two uncles set those fires, and also deployed the mines around the wells, at least one of them must have had some miltary training in demolitions handling. Eve told me neither of her uncles had ever served in the armed forces. The only place they could have received that sort of training would be at a school run by the Ministry of Defense for SAS special forces personel, so some sort of special arrangement must have been made for a civilian to attend such a course.
Another implication is that since they could not have carried that much demolition material in their baggage on board an aircraft, they must have been able to obtain it, along with transport, from British military forces in Kuwait. They would also have needed documents and passwords to pass through American or British checkpoints on their way to the front.
All of this is first-hand eyewitness testimony from an eyewitness who has withstood hours of interrogation and cross-examination and it all adds up to a British covert operation by a private mercenary group of highly trained secret service agents, with full co-operation of the MOD.
An operation that violated international law, did an enormous amount of environmental damage, and utilized involuntary slave labor in doing it.
An operation that violated international law, did an enormous amount of environmental damage, and utilized involuntary slave labor in doing it.
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