Insurgents Torch Iraq's Main Oil Pipeline (Kirkuk to Beiji)

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents using explosives set fire to the main oil pipeline in northern

Iraq on Thursday, officials said. Violence continued around the country, and the U.S. military said three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb the previous day.

The pipeline links an oil field in the northern city of Kirkuk to Iraq's largest oil refinery in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad.

The explosion occurred at about 5 a.m. (8 p.m. EDT Wednesday), setting fire to the pipeline and several oil valves about 34 miles west of Kirkuk, said firefighter Adil Mohammed.

"The damage is 100 percent, and we've haven't been able to control the fire yet," he said.

Iraq has the world's third-largest known oil reserves, but the industry has been crippled by several wars, sanctions during Saddam's rule and the anti-U.S. insurgency. Oil production remains limited, curbed by decaying infrastructure and frequent militant attacks on pipelines and refineries.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051020/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Mission Accomplished" - BushCo and the Oil Republicans

Who continue to REAP massive PROFITS from this ugly and false war.

[Botany]

2. this can not be true .....

Condi just said yesterday that we have made "significant progress" in
Iraq. She also said that in the same day the mayor of Baghdad and his
driver were blown up.

[katty]

17. CON-di Speaks: Senator, we had elections, significant progress.blabla

[cantstandbush]

22. Hmmm.... pretty "untidy" heh? n/t

[katty]

18. CON-di Speaks: Senator, we had elections, significant progress.blabla

[Missy M]

3. Not to worry, after all Condi told us that the situation in Iraq is merely

"UNTIDY", the damage on this pipeline is ONLY 100%.

[tatertop]

10. I like the picture of the Iraqi guarding the burning pipeline

from half-a-mile away.

No one will sneak by to roast marshmallows
on his watch!

[Larkspur]

4. Crippling the oil pipelines is the heart of the Sunni led insurgency

Whether we stay or leave, attacks on the pipelines will continue.

[Barrett808]

5. Didn't they just get the Ceyhan pipline back up and running?

Like, yesterday?

[dapper]

6. Arbusto

Is that an Arbusto Tanker that just pulled up? Free oil for Arbusto but we'll be charged $2.20 a gallon for it.

Dapper

[newyawker99]

13. Hi dapper!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Bob3]

7. Still more still more progress

At this rate of progress Iraq will be importing crude oil by 2007 (they already have to import gasoline).

[0007]

8. Everything is up to date in Iraq, anything less are lies from a bunch

of crime figures yapping their fucking heads off, while America sleeps.

[Generarth]

9. Insurgent

in·sur·gent P Pronunciation Key (n-sûrjnt)
adj.
Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government.
Rebelling against the leadership of a political party.


The word is being wrongly used in my opinion. The authority is not established there was no government until recently and theres no leadership to rebel against.

[Vickers]

11. The authority in this case is the USA

They have "control" :eyes: in Iraq.







But hey, you knew that. Right?

[jbane]

12. Vietraq will be IMPORTING oil in about a year.

That is when this war/ocupation goes from the brink of insanity to the abbyss

[Mr. Streisand]

14. American Oil

www.thanksalotw.com

[Boo Boo]

15. Y'all know how it is...

Some damn fool prolly left the tap open or somethin', and it's just leakin' away, hour after hour, until FINAL-ly, one of them insurgents comes along and THROES a match on it, and...

BOOM!!

[warrens]

16. So incompetent they can't even steal oil properly

Can these punks do ANYTHING right?

[cassiepriam]

19. Duh, they couldn't sneak WMD into a war zone, couldn't steal oil

from the middle east.

[pinniped]

20. * is a walking environmental disaster here and overseas.

Anything that POS touches turns to hell.

[NeoConsSuck]

21. Good!

The quickest way to get the neocon occupiers out of your country is take away their oil profits.

If they can't get (and keep) their hands on your oil, they have reason to stay.