Bomb attack on Iraqi oil pipeline causes huge fire

[leftchick]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/15/content_2701773.htm

TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Insurgents blew up an Iraqi oil pipeline Tuesday which convey crude from the northern Kirkuk oil fields to Baiji refinery north of Baghdad, setting huge fire, officials said.

"A bomb was planted under an oil pipeline causing huge fire, on the east side of Tigris river in Fatha area near Baiji," an official in Baiji refinery told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Black and thick smoke could be seen over the area, about 200 km north of the capital, as security forces and teams of firefighters raced to the scene to put out the fire, he said.

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In a separate incident, insurgents attacked a convoy of trucks carrying supplies to a US military base near the town of Dujail, some 60 km north of Baghdad, a source from the police of Dujail told
Xinhua.

[ashmanonar]

1. the fire of liberty keeps spreading.

fucking asshole bush.

gods.

i swear, every time i look at this site, the more i feel like we're screwed. you have to keep optimistic, but it's hard to feel that optimism when you can see the extent of what these assholes are doing.

[ktowntennesseedem]

2. Mission Accomplished! Freedom is on the march! We're turning the...

...ooops!

(Weren't we supposed to finance all the reconstrucion with the oil burning in that photo?)

[cthrumatrix]

3. they know why the US is there.... the pipelines are hard to defend

[LiberalEsto]

4. That strategy really hits us in our wallets

especially the SUV drivers.

I can't say I blame the Iraqis.