The dead are buried. The wounded have been treated. But the devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein's demented destruction of Kuwait's oil wells has only just begun. Three months after Iraqi troops began blowing up 600 wells in Kuwait, an estimated 500 fires are still burning, perpetuating the most hellish man-made inferno the earth has ever seen. As fire fighters struggle to quench the flames, a job that may take two years, the toll on the region's environment and the health of its people will continue to rise.
While initial fears that the fires might disrupt the global climate by causing a...
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