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The Gulf War oil spill was the second largest oil spill in history, resulting from the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Iraqi forces allegedly began dumping oil into the Persian Gulf in January 1991 to stop a U.S. coalition-led water landing on their shores. Despite quite high initial estimates, the amount of oil spilled was likely about 4,000,000 US barrels. In the months following the spill, most clean-up was targeted at recovering oil, and very little clean-up was done on Saudi Arabia’s highly affected beaches. An initial study in 1993 found that the spill will not have long-term environmental consequences, but many studies since 1991 have concluded the opposite, claiming that the spill is responsible for environmental damage to coastline sediments and marine species and ecosystems. Considered an act of environmental terrorism, the spill was a heated political move that had implications for the larger Persian Gulf War and temporarily damaged Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.