South Iraq pipeline blast cuts oil flows

[spinbaby]

BAGHDAD, Nov 22 (Reuters) - An oil pipeline explosion in southern Iraq cut flows to the main export outlet of Basra by at least 750,000 barrels per day on Monday, an oil industry official said.

The blast at around 9 a.m. (0600 GMT) stopped supplies through the smaller of two main southern oil export pipelines, the source said. One million bpd was still flowing through the other pipeline to the Basra Oil Terminal, the source added.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/NUE239893.htm

Everything is under control. Nothing to see here. Move along. Look, it's Scott Peterson!

[hatrack]

1. Gee, this headline seems vaguely, uh, familiar . . .

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[spinbaby]

2. I had to double-check the date

to make sure it was today's story. Every day we seem to get "Oil pipeline explosion," "Baghdad car bomb," and "Unidentified explosion in Green Zone."

[jwirr]

5. The enemy knows

where to hit. This is bushies oil?

[NNN0LHI]

3. Well sonuvabitch! Heads will roll over this. Get the oil back on line NOW!

Forget the rebuilding. Don't care how many Iraqis you have to kill either. Just get the oil pumping ASAP! Pretty much about it.

Don

[donsu]

4. 6 oil wells on fire in the north -- is any oil flowing in Iraq at all?

http://servihoo.com/channels/kinews/v3news_details.php?id=60349&CategoryID=47

Sixth Iraq oil well set ablaze by saboteurs

Saboteurs set ablaze another well in Iraq's northern oilfields overnight, bringing to six the number firefighters are trying to extinguish in the region, security guards said.

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"The firefighters are still trying to put out the fires, but so far they haven't managed to extinguish a single one," Ali said.

Guards thwarted a second sabotage attempt overnight, killing one assailant and wounding another, at a well further west, said Colonel Nawzad Ahmed, also from the oilfields protection force.

In an audio message posted on the Internet a week ago, a man claiming to be Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted man, urged insurgents to attack oil facilities around the country in their battle against the US military presence.
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and the world's air gets worse and worse.

[jwirr]

7. God, help us, when the oil is gone

it may end the war but will we be able to breathe from the pollution? It must especially be bad for anyone living near this area.

[deutsey]

6. Here is a photo of Pentagon spokesperson reassuring us all is well

"Remain calm. All is well."

[MADem]

8. Ah yes, the war that was supposed to pay for itself!!!

Are you paying more for gas NOW than you did before the war? Why yes, I believe I am!!!

Guess they'll have to go to Plan B....Farsi speakers, step to the front, raise your right hand, repeat after me...