If you went to Fahaheel shopping then you must have known the "Seamens Friend". They were known to UK customs officials for backdating invoices.
I was back there in 2004 for a couple of days but didn't have chance to get into Ahmadi or Fahaheel. Kuwait City was full of armed soldiers of various nationalities.
Over the years I met regularly with old KOC friends regularly in GOC PM meetings and have some very good photographs (from KOC) of the scene before the wells in Burgan were extinguished.
Apparently the Hungarian team "blew" some out using a MIG 29 engine.
Regarding the invasion of Kuwait, many in Qatar may not know that the GM of the Doha GC (Chris Myers) was in fact one of th "Human shields" in the first Gulf war.