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| 2 Caught Placing Bomb Near Iraq Refinery |
| 2004-02-02 |
| Iraqi police caught two men placing a roadside bomb Monday near the capital’s main Doura oil refinery, a U.S. commander said. Excellent! The two men were believed to be an Iranian and an Afghan, but ``we have to first develop that through interrogation and try and determine what that means,’’ Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, told a news conference. He did not elaborate. It means they bagged a couple of visting terrorists who are going to have the undivided attention of the intel types. With a refining capacity of 110,000 barrels of oil a day, Doura produces much of the gasoline, heating oil and cooking gas supplies for Baghdad. It also distributes crude oil used as fuel by two of the capital’s four electric plants. Which makes it a prime target. Dempsey, whose division is in charge of Baghdad, did not say how destructive the bomb could have been or how close it was to the main facility of the refinery. Because he’s not stupid. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 The two men were believed to be an Iranian and an Afghan ... ... fighting to expel the foreigners from Iraq. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-2 11:16:27 PM |
| #4 This is very good news. I'm guessing that the locals are getting pretty tired of the "Ferners" coming in and blowing stuff up. Iraq is going to become a less and less hospitable location for these scum. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-2-2 5:16:29 PM |
| #3 I hope they pursue the Iranian angle. Either he is working with AQ (but Iranians are Shite and won't work with AQ, would they?) or Iranian Intelligence on a sabotage mission. Note to CPA: undermine the Iranian agents in Iraq, including Muqti al Sadr and SCIRI. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-2-2 3:08:29 PM |
| #2 nice haul that,bet the iraqi coppers are more then happy, shame they don't have huge nets to haul these scum about in. nice to see them captured alive - bet there gonna squeel some use ful info, then kill em. |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-2 3:04:02 PM |
| #1 Just a couple of tourists using the Visit Iraq Vacation package with a a few thousand dollars of spending money compliments of Al-Qaeda et al. |
| Posted by: XMAN 2004-2-2 1:17:12 PM |