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Iraq Sets Oil-Filled Trenches Ablaze Round Baghdad
Iraqi forces lit trenches filled with oil around the capital Baghdad on Saturday in an apparent bid to obscure visibility over the city, a target of air strikes by U.S. and British forces, Reuters correspondents said. The correspondents saw at least two dozen fires raging around Baghdad, sending thick black smoke into the sky. "We can smell burning oil in the city," one reporter said.Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-03-22 |
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