Kuwait’s Emir Tours ‘Ambush Alley’
A day after returning from exile in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait’s emir toured the charred wreckage of the Persian Gulf War’s most spectacular killing field.
The site, nicknamed “Ambush Alley,” has become a macabre tourist attraction for off-duty soldiers and visiting American politicians. Sheik Jabbar al Ahmed al Sabah drove stony-faced past hundreds of burned-out military and civilian vehicles that littered the highway after U.S. tanks, helicopters and planes smashed a vast column of retreating Iraqis on Feb. 27. The emir’s armor-plated Mercedes was flanked by six army trucks with machine guns. Two helicopters hovered overhead. He did not stop to inspect the wreckage in which hundreds of retreating Iraqis died.
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