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| Air strikes hit makeshift IS refineries in Syria |
| 2014-09-29 |
| [ARABNEWS] Air strikes believed to have been carried out by US-led forces hit three makeshift oil refineries in Syria's Raqqa province early on Sunday as part of an assault to weaken Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) bully boys, a monitoring group said. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks occurred shortly after midnight, adding that they also hit a plastic factory. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 So, can IAF flatten Iranian oil infrastructure now? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-29 13:37 |
| #8 I've never seen any either, that's what led me to drip gas. Yes, you might want to leave the Lucky Strikes in the truck...... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-29 13:31 |
| #7 Doubt it's casinghead gas - that stuff is viciously explosive and if there was enough gathered together to matter our missile hits would've looked like MOABs. (See Ardmore, OK, 1915.) As best I can tell, they are referring to portable mini-refineries, but I've never seen any. Teapots on a trailer would be a good description. If you're not too concerned with efficiency or quality control, fractional distillers (modified moonshine stills) are simple and reliable. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-09-29 12:24 |
| #6 More on oil field casing head or 'drip gas.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-29 11:29 |
| #5 Could be 'drip gas' from a well, or very basic field expedient processing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-29 11:20 |
| #4 Glenmore what do you figure these makeshift refineries are? Teapots on a trailer or some such? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-29 11:16 |
| #3 The interview anjam chodery on cnn had a very candid moment. That the true believers consider reporters as spys, and that reporters seem to think that they are some sort of protected referee class. Neither one exists in the other one's world. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-29 10:20 |
| #2 sawing off heads of folks whose only crime was being a journalist? Well, that should not warrant head removal but it's not entirely insignificant.... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-09-29 08:57 |
| #1 Despicable act? As opposed to sawing off heads of folks whose only crime was being a journalist? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-09-29 07:43 |