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| Iraq |
| Iraq Sets Oil-Filled Trenches Ablaze Round Baghdad |
| 2003-03-22 |
| 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 |
| #2 Reports say Iraqs ploy was to confuse the Americans by making Iraq look like Los Angeles. |
| Posted by: Brew 2003-03-22 17:26:57 |
| #1 Idiots. Even if that had a remote chance of working, how long could they keep it burning? They're suffocating themselves. Absolute idiots. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-03-22 14:53:40 |