Workers Suspected in Iraq Oil Sabotage

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040711/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insider_sabotage&cid=540&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD, Iraq (news - web sites) — Saboteurs launching attacks on Iraq's oil and electricity infrastructure appear to be employees working in the industry or others acting on inside information, reconstruction officials said Sunday.


A Western diplomat in Baghdad said the "precise" targeting of especially vulnerable or valuable portions of the oil and electricity systems — and even a sewage treatment plant — has increased the damage to critical infrastructure beyond what would be expected from random attacks.


The diplomat declined to reveal the sections that had been sabotaged.


Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has blamed such attacks for a nationwide loss of power of more than four hours a day. Iraq's pipelines transport crude oil for export and also carry it to oil-fired power generators that provide domestic electricity.

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[patdem]

1. If America was invaded and occupied we would NEVER think of doing

such horrible acts!!! Even if the American who formerly worked for the Chineseian government was in charge!

[Mika]

3. Damn right Americans would NEVER do that

how the F would they fuel their Excursions and Navigators?

[Trillo]

2. Rinse, wash, repeat . . . payers get fleeced. nt

[Barrett808]

4. More evidence of the excellent intelligence commanded by the insurgency

All aspects of Iraqi society are thoroughly penetrated. I would bet that includes Negroponte's nascent death squads.