Bill Wattenburg was asked by the U.S. Government in April 1991 to be the U.S. scientific advisor to the Kuwaiti Government and help them put out the 500 oil well fires in Kuwait . In the course of this effort, he received daily reports on the continuing conflict in northern Iraq and saw films of the Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq being machine gunned by Iraqi soldiers when the refugees flocked to the large food pallets that U.S forces were dropping by parachute in remote areas.
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