Rebels Blow Up an Oil Well in North Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040326/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents detonated explosives on an oil well in northern Iraq (news - web sites) sparking a fire that raged for 24 hours before being extinguished, a senior Iraqi security official said Friday.


The attack was the latest on the oil industry, which is crucial in helping to fund reconstruction work in this war-shattered nation.


Rebels also have targeted Iraqi police and some 350 U.S.-trained officers have been killed in the past year, the U.S. military said. Attacks are expected to increase before the coalition hands over sovereignty on June 30. The latest American casualty was a soldier who died in a bomb explosion north of Baghdad.


The blast on the Northern Oil Company well in the Khabaz area, about 55 miles west of Kirkuk, occurred Wednesday night, said Gen. Mohammed Amin, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps chief in Kirkuk. The fire was extinguished late Thursday.

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. Um, shouldn't they have blown DOWN the well?

BOOM tissssss

Sorry, I'm tired and my dark sense of humor is coming to the fore. :eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

3. Actually it did blow UP real good n/t

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

7. May the good Lord take a likin' to ya, and blow you up real soon!

I loved that bit!

[leftchick]

2. wasn't there a pipeline burning in the south...

earlier this week also? Everthing is just peachy in Iraq... :eyes:

[ze_dscherman]

4. But that was called a technical failure

Can pipelines blow themselves up?

[rooboy]

5. Why not? It's THEIR oil, they can do what they want with it. n/t

[Barrett808]

6. kick