http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_power_outage&cid=540&ncid=1478BAGHDAD, Iraq - A large swath of Iraq (news - web sites) lost electricity Sunday after a fire erupted in a major power plant north of Baghdad. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi called the fire an accident, but accused guerrillas of hurting Iraqis with attacks on infrastructure.
The capital went dark at about 4 p.m. and power was still out at 7 p.m. The only lights came from the Green Zone and a few other places that have their own generators. snip
The fire at the Beiji power plant, 155 miles north of Baghdad, was probably accidental, Allawi told a live call-in show on the Iraqiya television network.
"I'd like to say that, unfortunately, some forces working to hurt the country don't make a distinction in their attacks," he said. "They strike the economic positions and the infrastructure network in a way that harms the whole Iraqi society."
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