Bye Bye Um Al-Aish
I don’t understand why they would demolish it. Couldn’t they leave it standing there all alone? It’s very sad. [YouTube]
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Sep 14, 2009
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FIRST POST!!! WAHHAHAHAHAHA :P
But seriously, Why?
I have no idea but it sucks.
“wenhaaar el jabal ya waad” funny.
oh, that’s sad…
It seems they are trying to erase anything that remind us of the 1990 invasion. Maybe within few years they will remove the subject from the school textbooks. It sucks.
What was that?
@Yousef, its a satellite communication center was opened in 1969 and I think it was the first of its kind in the middle east.
Mark, i think it would be nice if you linke to this blog entry that has information about it for those who doesn’t know whats um el3aish http://just-papers.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_24.html
AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh…. I kept putting off going there and taking photos. I knew this would happen one day.
*Manly Tears*
I wish I did not see this!
I can’t express my feelings here, I had to do this:
http://www.moayad.com/me/?p=488
They should keep it as a monument ! ta5allof walla
Like always kuwait doesn’t want any history left can some one show me how my grand parents use to live in kuwait ………… NO cause they destroyed the whole history Keep up the good work kuwait :)
I kept putting off going here – that’s what you get, eh?
Like Moayad, I can’t express my feeling here, so I went ahead and did this: http://overwhelminginsanity.blogspot.com/2009/09/why.html
Keep up the good work, Kuwait. Take away our historical remnants and give us more malls.
Sad, but you got to admit, that fall looked awesome! Sounded and looked like a giant robot getting dragged to its demise.
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Short historic background:
Umm Al-Aish Station:
When established in 1969 it was the first land satellite communication station in the middle east. It consist of several huge satellite dishes like the one in the picture.
During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait between 1990 and 1991 the Iraqi forces destroyed the station and all its dishes. Therefore you see the way it is now.
There were some rumors about a Kuwaiti communication company (Fast Telco) buying the site from the government to establish a huge internet communication center in its place.
“” Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xnuzha/379306739/
This video just pisses me off. WTF were they thinking? Is Kuwait out of space or something? Why the F*** would they do that!!! What The F*** is THEIR F@#$)*& Problem!!
A 40 year-old station gone in under 5 minutes…so sad.
“the first land satellite communication station in the middle east.”
It could have had a place in a museum. Now its gone.
Bye Bye.
I’m so fucking disappointed ! I was waiting for the perfect skies to take some shots at the satellite dish and now its too late !
Hey guys calm down,, the government of Kuwait didn’t want the remain of Umm Al Aiysh,, why? because they want to, they own the land.
If they run it to a museum who would go all the way there to see a remaining of land satellite communication station. The tourist will ask us why you haven’t re build it what are you going to say?
lol @ those Egyptian people, why are they happy that much ?
people…do you know how much that much steel is worth in scrap….thats why they tore it down, and that’s why they are smiling.
its really good scrap!! they sell it by weight.
As long as there are no plans to preserve/repair it, all one has to do is float a proposal and get it approved to be sold as scrap… I leave it to your imagination what happens next!!
F***ING “KUROMBO” THE ONE PULLED the satellite
Yalla ya Koromboooo
I hope Kurombo gets abducted by aliens !
WTF? Why would they do that??
I bet its “boogat”..I’m so pissed -_-
laish na6reen 18 years after the gulf war end to remove the station ?!!
yemken they just figure out there is no chance to play a tender kaikah game on it
Bu Yousef and Mathai… I feel the same! I kept procrastinating…
Damn! Why the fuck would they want to pull it down???
They’re even tearing down the old buildings in Dasman!
Tearing down a shot up satellite dish and an old mud palace is just one of many ways the Kuwaiti Identity is being gradually and systematically erased by the powers-that-be…and it wouldn’t be the first nor the last time that a part of Kuwait’s history is erased in this subtle way.
I don’t know why this is happening…..
is it because of the new city or the metro or the new bridge to hell?????
I’m really pissed off
Very, very sad. I have been an expat in Kuwait for 2 years now and privileged enough to have driven out there in April this year and got some pics before they did this.
Just to walk around there and try and remember what it must have been like during the days of the invasion was very poignant. Perhaps the responsible people wanted to get rid of the bad memories but it is monuments like this that also serves as reminders to future generations never again to perpetrate the atrocities of the past.
1 nice spot for taking photos is gone.
sad.
sad, it looked good today.. how was it like in the 60′s..