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| Iraq Plants Explosives at Its Oil Fields |
| 2003-03-10 |
| Iraq is placing explosives at the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq, Fox News has confirmed, raising new fears that Saddam Hussein may be planning to blow up its oil production facilities to prevent them from being taken over in a war with the U.S. There are no specifics on the types or amounts of explosives the Iraqis are using, but U.S. officials say they are seeing new activity in the area. Last week, the Pentagon cited reliable reports that Iraq planned to plant explosives at its oil wells, and that in some cases they "had already begun." Iraq recently received twenty-four railroad boxcars filled with Pentolite explosives, Fox News learned. Pentolite is a TNT based booster manufactured by African Explosives Limited, Republic of South Africa. Wonder if old Nelson Mandela owns shares in the company?Wonder how they got twenty-four boxcars of it into Iraq, as UN approved oil field supplies? In Baghdad, an oil ministry official denied the report. "Iraq is keen to defend its oil wells and it is illogical that we burn our oil wells with our own hands," Oil Undersecretary Hussein Suleiman Al-Hadithi told Reuters. We'll see. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Boxcars via Syria. Would make pretty neat target practice. Rumors of lots of proscribed targets at the moment, Sadddam can't admit or complain. |
| Posted by: john 2003-03-10 21:12:52 |