- Warbah Island
Warbah Island ( _ar. جزيرة الوربة) is an island belonging to
Kuwait , located in thePersian Gulf , near the mouth of theEuphrates River . It is located roughly 100 meters east of the Kuwaiti mainland, 1.5 kilometers north ofBubiyan Island and 1 kilometer south of the Iraqi mainland. It is roughly 15 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide with a total area of 37 square kilometers. The island is essentially a large mud flat.The island has no permanent inhabitants although the government maintains a coastguard post, named "M-1" on the island which is partially funded by the
United Nations [cite web
url = http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/55/a55811.pdf
title = Budget for the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission for the period from 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002
publisher = United Nations
date = 2007-01-14] .In November 1994,
Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait which had been spelled out in Security Council Resolutions 687 (1991 ), 773 (1993 ), and 883 (1993 ) which formally ended an earlier claim to Warbah Island [cite web
url = http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1378818
title = CIA World Fact Book - Iraq
publisher = everything2.com
date = 2007-01-14] .Near the island in early December,
2002 , in the lead-up to theinvasion of Iraq , an Iraqi ship opened fire on two Kuwaiti coastguard patrol boats, causing them to collide. A US serviceman and two Kuwaiti coastguards were injured in the attack, no mention was made of the reason for the US serviceman's presence [cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2537275.stm
title = Iraqis 'shot at Kuwaiti vessels'
publisher = BBC
date = 2007-01-14] [cite web
url = http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2002-12/06/article91.shtml
title = U.S. Soldier, Two Kuwaiti Coastguards Wounded in Vessel Collision
publisher = islamonline.net
date = 2007-01-14] .References
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