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South Africa - A Man Made Environmental Disaster
In 19 91, sadam hussein's iraki army set fire to hundreds of oil wells in the desert. They were not extinguished until november of that year. Simon watts has spoken to one of the expert fire fighters drafted in to fight those flames. For our next eye witness story, we go back 30 years to a moment when the world was confronted with the threat of an ecological disaster.
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