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| Jihadists Burn Three Iraq Oil Wells as Kurds Attack |
| 2014-08-29 |
| [AnNahar] Retreating jihadists set three wells ablaze at a northern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby, officials said. The Islamic State (IS) jihadists set the wells on fire before deserting the Ain Zalah field, which was seized by bully boyz along in early August, an official from the North Oil Company said. A colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces said they had launched a major attack that has seen the jihadists pushed back from several villages in the area of the oil field. IS-led bully boyz launched a sweeping offensive in June that overran large areas of Iraq, and turned their sights on Kurdish forces in the north earlier this month, driving them back toward Arbil, the capital of their three-province autonomous region. That advance, during which the bully boyz targeted minority groups and forced some 200,000 people to flee, sparked a campaign of U.S. air strikes which, combined with international shipments of arms and ammunition, have helped the Kurds claw back some ground. The bully boyz reportedly rake in significant volumes of cash from the sale of oil from fields they control. They have made repeated attempts to seize the Baiji oil refinery, which once filled some 50 percent of Iraq's demand for refined petroleum products. The turban offensive has wreaked havoc on northern production and exports, but Iraq's main southern fields and export terminals have not been affected by the violence. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Jihadi warning to CHINA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-29 22:30 |
| #2 They are scorched earth. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-08-29 13:01 |
| #1 Have they no respect for our planet? No concern about global warming? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-08-29 08:35 |