Posted on 02/25/2011 10:25:58 PM PST by Eyes Unclouded
Iraq's largest oil refinery was shut down on Saturday after militants carried out a bomb attack and set it on fire, the governor of Salahuddin province said.
The militants killed four people and planted bombs at production units for kerosene and benzene at the refinery in the town of Baiji, a former al Qaeda stronghold about 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, Governor Ahmed al-Jubouri said.
"There is a big fire in the refinery and the refinery has completely stopped," Jubouri told Reuters.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since the peak of sectarian conflict in 2006-07, but attacks still occur on a daily basis.
The Baiji refinery was controlled for a long time by al Qaeda militants, who used it to finance the insurgency.
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Great. Thanks a lot!
That’s just wonderful.
Of course it was Cheney operatives working for this Haliburton kickbacks.
A consequence of Obama “strategery”.
Freedom and democracy. They love it! /s
No way, it was Obama and his fat rich Texas oil buddies;)
And not a picture one in America’s corrupt media.
How long til not just Iraq and Libya are burning ???
No nevermind, we’re in recovery now...
Who needs oil refineries anyway. That’s the “energy of the past”.
We got windmills!!!!
Sheik OBummer’s plans seem to be coming together.
Should have taken out Irans leadership long ago....they are funding this crap.
If Iraq’s oil industry was privatized it would be more efficient, profitable and secure. Big oil is accustomed to operating in the Third World and guarding its investments.
Darn, I thought it said iran.
They’d go down so easy. Hit the food and water, electricity and gasoline. iran population starves. ouch.
Then hit the air defense.
Then make’m say uncle a few times.
"The Baiji refinery was controlled for a long time by al Qaeda militants, who used it to finance the insurgency."
I wonder how long is a "long time"?
*Muqtada al-Sadr, one of G.W. Bush's most boneheaded errors of the Iraq War: leaving him alive.
and solar panels.....
We should all be shaking our heads about this countrys lack of a coherent energy policy. It makes one wonder if Obama and the environuts gets their cash from the Saudis and OPEC
Obama has a very coherent energy policy - to strangle the US by direct action to block us from using our own energy sources as well as forced misdirection and wasted spending on dead end alternative green energy schemes.
They must REALLY think they can benefit from a civil war in this country.
Concur. I really don’t understand why that guy didn’t catch a bullet back in the 2004 time frame.
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