Insurgents Blow Up an Iraqi Oil Pipeline

[NVMojo]

WAH!! THE RED STATES WILL BE CRYING NOW!!!! WITH THEIR BIG SUVs...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 3 - Insurgents blew up a northern oil export pipeline on Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to the national economy, even as car bombs and gun battles across the country left at least 12 Iraqis dead, Iraqi officials said.

The sabotage of the northern oil pipeline forced a shutdown of crude oil exports to a port in Turkey, Iraqi officials said. The pipeline pumps out 400,000 barrels a day of crude oil and is the frequent target of sabotage.

Hours after the explosion, firefighters were still battling the pipeline blaze near the city of Kirkuk, where pipelines run from oil fields west to the country's largest refinery in Bayji and north to Turkey.

An Iraqi oil official in Baghdad told The Associated Press that the amount of crude oil in storage at the port of Ceyhan in Turkey was down to four million barrels, half of the port's storage capacity.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/international/middleeast/03iraq.html?th

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. And may Oil hit $200 a barrell!!!

Lousy SUV's!!
:puke:

[NVMojo]

2. make the rich bastards walk!!!!

[amandabeech]

3. They only fix up the Ceyhan pipeline so that the insurgents

can have fun blowing it up again.

Not much oil has been piped to Ceyhan since we arrived on the scene.

It's so bad that we've tried to jerry-rig pipelines from Kirkuk into the southern Basra terminal system to get a little out.

The whole thing is such a joke in a key-stone cops kind of way.

The only problem is that people are getting killed and maimed for the antics of these cops.

[durablend]

4. So what...

The American people obviously support it, so send some more dummies to get blown to bits--they don't care.