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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 03:19 PM
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Iraq oil pipeline ablaze after fresh sabotage - AFP: 2/7/2005
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36977

KIRKUK, Iraq, Feb 7 (AFP) - A pipeline carrying crude oil from Iraq's northern Kirkuk hub to the key refinery of Baiji was attacked Monday, an official from the North Oil Company said.

"Preliminary reports indicate that a rocket was fired at a cluster of pipelines near Al-Fatha, just on the edge of the Tigris river," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"This 16-inch pipeline was already sabotaged three weeks ago and is crucial in providing the oil needed for the Baiji refinery," itself key to much of Baghdad's power supply, the source said.

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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 03:28 PM
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1. But we were told the election would stop this
You mean it hasn't?

Boy, won't the Repugs be disappointed.
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 03:29 PM
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2. No surprise.
The war has always been about oil.

Iraqis know it's always been about oil. And I don't blame them for hitting corporate america where it hurts. Unfortunately, the pain will seep down to average Iraqis... but isn't that always the way when a country fights against their occupiers? Didn't we once rebel against a tea tax?

Get halliburton the pfhuck out and the attacks on oil pipelines may cease.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 03:31 PM
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3. In other news, Saudi Arabia announces another hike in the price of
crude oil. The families of the alledged 15/19 hijackers ought to be getting a nice thank you note from the House of Saud.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 04:07 PM
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5. kind-o-like one of them there viciiiiious circles.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 04:02 PM
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4. but but but
I thought everything was peachy-keen now!
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