It was one of the most vile operations carried out by U.S. forces in Iraq. Saddam forced Iraqi civilians to move to Kuwait. I'm actually surprised to see this photo out in the wild considering. Of course the story has been sanitized but the truth is the Iraqis, mostly CIVILIANS trying to escape the U.S. invasion of Kuwait in whatever vehicles they could find, many / most of them carrying household goods took out on the highway. US forces blocked both ends of it and strafed it (bombed the fuck out of it) from end to end until everyone was dead.
THEN they took massive land movers dug a trench and shoved everything into it to hide the evidence. You don't want to know how I KNOW this, nor do you really want to know…we did this. We murdered thousands of civilians ON PURPOSE then worked to hide the evidence.
If there is any other story about this…it's a damn fucking lie. AnonwhoKNOWS.