Oil pipeline ablaze in Iraq

[cal04]

AN oil pipeline feeding the Al-Dura refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad was ablaze late today after a suspected act of sabotage northeast of the Iraqi capital, said an AFP correspondent.

Local residents near the restive city of Baquba said they heard a loud explosion in the afternoon and rushed to help extinguish the flames that continued to rage as dusk set in. The pipeline links the Kurdish town of Qanaqin, about 100 kilometres from Baghdad, to Al-Dura refinery.

Sabotage of oil infrastructure is common in Iraq where a fire which raged on a strategic northern pipeline, stalling exports through Turkey, was brought under control early on Wednesday.
An official at the Northern Oil Company said the repair work would take "three days to a week to complete".


http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10792010%255E1702,00.html

[bemildred]

1. More progress. nt

[pinniped]

2. Cool, more environmental disasters compliments of presidunce*.

n/t

[donsu]

6. yes and now they are setting fire to tires found along roads

so the tires can't be used to hide bombs.

all that crap going into the world's air.

and more and more kids have bad lungs.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They fix it, they blow it up, they fix it, they blow it up.....

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Flip the record....

The B side plays the same song "They fix it, they blow it up, they fix it, they blow it up.....only in the south".

[AlCzervik]

12. Yup, and after the puppet government goes all dictator all the time

how long before we start re-liberating?

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Heck, the answer is in the record I mentioned

If it's played backwards the enemy leaves, the citizens lay down their weapons, the destruction is repaired, the dead are revived, and the country is united (albeit by a dictator)...

[dicknbush]

7. CORRECTION.. WE PAY TO FIX IT......THEY BLOW IT UP

[itzamirakul]

14. One step forward and two steps back

"The damage wrought yesterday on facilities repaired with U.S. tax dollars was particularly spectacular.

The estimated damage from recent attacks on the Iraqi oil infrastructure: $2 billion.

Instead if being sold on the international market, oil burned on the desert and poured, still aflame, into the Tigris.

...flaming slicks of oil floating downstream while black smoke billowed into mammoth columns visible 25 miles away.

Especially disheartening...the sabotage came just two days after engineers completed a two-month replacement of critical valves destroyed by a previous bombing.

They already know it's a critical point because they've blown it up before."

Source: NY Daily News Wed., Sept. 15, 2004

[salinen]

4. That's great news

Caribou love warm pipelines.

[prolesunited]

8. Now they are hitting in where it *really* hurts

Do you remember when Bush first launched the invasion and he gave a speech directed at the Iraqis?

One of the first things he told them was not to blow up the oil fields, that the wealth they contained belonged to the Iraqi people. I guess they don't buy it.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Exactly, they have figured out that

the only way to deal with these heartless oil bastards is to hit them in at their bottom line - oil profits. The Iraqi people aren't going to get a dime for "thier riches", so what do they have to lose?

[Jacobin]

9. How many is that this week?

IraqNam: Another Failed Bush Oil Deal

[Gyre]

10. Smart insurgents!

Hit those occupiers where it really hurts. Good on you!

Gyre

[dbt]

11. How can they tell?

[wsswss]

13. Huh?

"Smart insurgents! Hit those occupiers where it really hurts. Good on you!"

What do you mean? I must be missing something, but why is it a good thing that "insurgents" are taking Iraq's only source of revenue (besides US taxdollars) offline?

[PATRICK]

15. Pepperoni

There is a Jeopardy question that goes with that, but before wsswss finally earns the right to hear it, let us remember that from the insurgents point of view the resource that will be drained off by Bushco for Bushco's benefit does not currently belong to them. Neither does their country.

Maybe not all Iraqis want to blow up their resource that has brought them such misery and exploitation but they do recognize the fact that they are tenant oil producers in their own country. The world will quickly suck dry and switch away from the ONLY natural resource available
to the heart of Islam. This economic issue is thus a direct attack not only on the nation but on the future of Islam.

So they can't buy WMD's- quite so easily. But Bushco doesn't give a damn how many despairing vengeful little guys they create. Just as in war in general, vengeful despairing little guys fight their conscripted counterparts for the extra profit and entertainment of the same exploiters who- just to ensure profits- are taking over those nasty little things called governments.

Bushco is a greater enemy than terrorism in general, but they have stolen that realization by striking first and claiming that any dissident opinion at home is "terrorism". Well, I bet it is because they should not be sleeping too soundly at night after creating enemies of all decent humanity. After switching meanings and aspirations from sanity to madness, from hope to despair, from prosperity to misery, from democracy to tyranny, from light to dark, from life to death. Then they think the Angel Gabriel will be coming to them to escape the burning mess they will never take responsibility for.

As a believer of sorts, I bet he will be coming for them- and with extreme prejudice to far outmatch their own.

But the trump card in denying the occupier their profit and motive is to choke back the oil supply. Whatever is lost, if America lets go, will only increase the value over time of the supplies that are left- whose dormant potential is quickly coming to match the chugging pipelines of Saudi Arabia and others who are ironically bailing out the American Empire as it struggles valiantly in the tar pit.

Is it a good thing in itself for the Iraqis or the world? No. But they are left NO other options by an obvious rapacious unjust occupier. Bush will not, cannot let go and ensures regional support for the insurgents too by continuing obvious plans to "knock off" all the other Islamic oil producers. In other areas he has been loathe to go against money sources that support terrorism, but not this one. Lucky for us??? that the BIG PLAN will sweep over minor considerations like peace, security, justice and terrorism in the happy happy joy joy world of Buscho crony capitalism.

None of this bizarre misery should have, would have happened under at least a minimally sane administration. It is a final slap in the face against civilization by criminal dinosaurs facing their inevitable doom. When someone hurts some fraud wrapped in our flag sending our children to die our OWN resources into the bottomless pockets of campaign donors, a terrible empathy is born. We suckers who are locked against other people destroying themselves and their nation in order to rid themselves of the direct cause- the tyrants who cause ALL the trouble. The "World" that John's Gospel speaks of is mainly the power acceded to, given to a handful of miserable SOB's who control the orchestra of praise.

Bushco cannot win. Humanity and an inescapable future is locked in a death struggle against its now transparent evil. But maybe everyone will lose, a humankind suicide, a planetary abortion, a sad rescue by any pitying deity notwithstanding. Only the criminally insane can rejoice or imagine some private Eden(More like Mordor) wrested away from the destiny of a new progressing species.

[Jacobin]

16. In case you haven't noticed:

We invaded their country illegally and are attempting to steal their resources.

They are fighting to run out the U.S. occupiers.

Guerilla warriors use the only weapons they have available. They don't have tanks and planes and bomb people from fifteen thousand feet. They do it anyway they can, like we did in the 1700's to kick out the British.

We have no right to be there.

It is THEIR oil, not ours and they would rather burn it than have us steal it.

Things are MUCH WORSE in IraqNam since Saddam was removed. Swallow it. Puke on it. Its fucking True.

Now, go away.

[wsswss]

19. Theft? Much worse now?

"It is THEIR oil, not ours and they would rather burn it than have us steal it."

The US and the rest of the world pays $45 per barrel for the oil. How is that stealing?


"Things are MUCH WORSE in IraqNam since Saddam was removed. Swallow it. Puke on it. Its fucking True."

What is your source for this? Do you have any statistically-significant polls to support your feelings? How do you define "worse"? If "better" means living in a police state under UN sanctions, then you have a point.