Major Pipeline in Iraq Ablaze

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0129.AP-Iraq-Pipeline.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)--A major pipeline linking oilfields in northern Iraq to the country's biggest refinery was ablaze Wednesday, witnesses said.

Sheets of flame and thick black smoke were shooting from the damaged line next to the desert highway near the village of Sharqat, about 30 miles north of Beiji, the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery, witnesses said.

There was no immediate explanation about what had caused the fire. Its location was about 135 miles north of the capital, in the so-called Sunni Triangle where guerrillas have repeatedly attacked pipelines linking Iraq's oil fields with Turkey.

Sabotage of pipelines and other infrastructure has become a major problem for the U.S.-run coalition and its Iraqi partners as they try to revive the country's giant petroleum industry--the key to economic recovery.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. well if it wasn't all about the oil...

why do the terra-ists think it is?

[Iverson]

2. There go Republican reelection monies.

Oil revenue from Iraq would be off the books, thank Halliburton.
Oh, why couldn't it just have been a museum or library or something else set ablaze that didn't merit military protection!

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[elfin]

3. And not a peep on cable

so far this AM while I've been up.