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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

In July 1991, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, a huge fire spread
throughout Kuwait and the Persian Gulf as the Iraqis fired Kuwait's
oil wells. This is how this fire was covered in the media:

- The burning oil in Kuwait led to the deaths of people and animals.
According to experts, half a million tons of oil went up into the atmos-
phere as smoke. Every day, more than 10,000 tons of soot, sulfur, car-
bon-dioxide and large quantities of hydrocarbons with their
carcinogenic properties hang suspended over the Gulf. It is not just the
Gulf but, on its behalf, the world is burning. 21
- Two wells that were set alight produced as much oil as Turkey does in
one day, and the smoke from them were even seen from Saudi Arabia,
55 kilometers away. 22

- Hundreds of oil wells set alight in Kuwait are still burning fiercely.
Experts say it will be "exceedingly difficult to put those fires out," and it
is said that the fires may affect a wide area from Turkey to India for the
next 10 years.
The fire and smoke coming from the wells constantly polluted the at-
mosphere. Daytime resembled night in Kuwait. The brown smoke that
rose together with the flames reminded one of the sky as the autumn
turns into winter… It has been stated that it would take at least a cen-
tury for Kuwait to be completely habitable again. The smoke that rises
with the flames is visible from miles away, totally blocking out the sky
and making the country unfit to live in. The wealthy are abandoning
Kuwait.

According to a statement by Abdullah Dabbagh, director of the research
institute in Dhahran, in the New York Times, 106 species of fish, 180
species of mollusk, and 450 animal species living in the region strug-
gled to survive because of the pollution in the Persian Gulf. It has been
stated that smoke rising from 600 oil wells has spread to neighboring

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