Oil pipeline set ablaze by bomb in Iraq

pup55 · **Joined:** Wed May 26, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 4220

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TIKRIT, Iraq, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi insurgents blew up a roadside bomb under an oil pipeline in the central province of Salahudin on Saturday, setting up a huge fire, a provincial police source said.

The pipeline, which carries oil from the northern oil fields of Kirkuk to Beiji refinery, went into flames before midday in the Fatha area near the town of Beiji, 200 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity

Xinhua

Ho hum, another typical day in Iraq.

DantesPeak · **Posted:** Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:14 pm

This appears to be the same one that was blown up a few weeks ago, with some equally concerned 'oil protection police' investigating:

Press TV

pup55 · **Joined:** Wed May 26, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 4220

All teasing aside, I think when the archeologists of the future look back on this era, they will consider it a miracle that somewhere between 1 and 3 million barrels per day of a flammable liquid were pumped out of this place, despite there being a war, civil war, prolonged insurgency or whatever you want to call it.

I guess what that tells you is that this is where the priorities are. Not trivialities like water and electricity for the population.

Oil pipeline set ablaze by bomb in Iraq

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