It's an ill wind...
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...In a war where dolphins are employed as mine-detectors, perhaps the oddest occurrence blew in along with the shifting weather of the southern Iraqi desert sandstorm and rain, contrasting with snow in the north.
The devastating sandstorms - fierce enough to keep a Kuwaiti team from tackling oil well fires on Wednesday - actually extinguished fires burning at three well heads in Iraq's Rumeila oilfield. That's two more than the team itself was able to extinguish on Tuesday.