Iraqi oil pipeline attacked

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Insurgents in Iraq have attacked an oil pipeline just outside the capital Baghdad - the third attack on the country's oil infrastructure in as many days. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has accused the saboteurs of trying to destabilise the whole region.

Last week, insurgents cut eight of the 20 main lines supplying the southern export terminals and at the weekend new attacks resulted in a spectacular blaze in the same area. Some analysts say Iraq's exports have been cut by 30 per cent, but a spokesman for the South Oil Company said exports remained stable at 1.5 million barrels a day.

the saboteurs are seriously damaging efforts to rebuild the country. "This is a sign of a determined enemy to wreck Iraq and wreck the political process in Iraq and to undermine the whole region and shake the peace of the world," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1188488.htm

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1. OH, YES, WE LIBERATED THEM AND THEY ARE SO FREE AND SAFE

Bush is an asshole. This entire region is going to explode IN HIS STUPID WHITE AMERICAN TEXAS FACE.

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2. so now we take away money for them to live like humans just

to get this oil out, how disgusting

The U.S. envoy to Iraq wants to shift $3.3 billion set aside for Iraqi water, sewer, power and other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil output and create jobs, a U.S. official said on Monday.

The proposal by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte reflected the realization that without better security in the nation torn by an anti-U.S. insurgency, long-term rebuilding is impossible, the official said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6105876

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3. Sweet cheap crude, 'eh?

Just don't pop any willies!

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4. Whoa, something odd here

Reading this I thought it was an old story from a week or two ago when, again, 20 pipelines had been destroyed and the SAME figures were given for the decrease in productivity and the same spin on not affecting the rest of oil supply.

Is ABC duping their own stories? So, more pipelines have been cut and the same figures on output and the same reassurances almost verbatim as before?

Something sounds very strange here yet the story is dated 8/31.

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5. Militants are just keeping their word.

They said back off or we will attack the oil infrastructure a
couple weeks ago, and Allooney keeps saying he's going to crush
them. The difference between the militants and Allooney is the
militants are not bluffing.