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| Fierce Gunbattle, Oil-Well Blast in Iraq |
| 2004-03-26 |
| EFL. The headline makes you think the separate events are more closely related than they really are. BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops have been involved Friday in an intense battle with enemy fighters in Fallujah, who were apparently heavily armed with mortars and rocket propelled grenade launchers. Although no U.S. casualties have been reported, doctors at the local hospital said four Iraqis died and six wounded in the assault. The battle apparently erupted when U.S. forces moved in to carry out house-to-house searches in the town west of Baghdad. Meanwhile, several hundred miles away, oil wells and pipelines are being targetted in what Iraqi officials have called terrorist acts. A pieline was set on fire near Basra, causing a huge blaze, and, in yet another different place, in northern Iraq a bomb set off a large fire at an oil well. The oil well fire raged for 24 hours before being extinguished, a senior Iraqi security official said. . . . The blast on the Northern Oil Company well in the Khabaz area, about 55 miles west of Kirkuk, occurred Wednesday night, said Gen. Mohammed Amin, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps chief in Kirkuk. The fire was extinguished late Thursday. The well was not being tapped at the time of the blast and was not closely guarded, he said. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Every time I hear about the Eye-Rakkies trashing their own means of climbing out of their hole, I can't help thinking of the way writer P.J. O'Rourke used to describe self-inflicted stupidity - to the effect "It looked as if a (Baathist) heavy mortar team had been hard at work for several weeks, continually lobbing rounds STRAIGHT UP..." It seems that our Army is engaged in a battle of its own attrition,just to try to stop the Eye-Rakkies from destroying their own infrastructure. How long are we going to put up with that ????? Ah, well, at least our Amry is getting tuned up for things to come - elsewhere. It looks to me as if the coming of the battle of annihilation is just a matter of time. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-03-26 8:32:44 PM |
| #5 muck4doo rules......he's the resident satirical ultimate clown-on the libz. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-03-26 4:48:03 PM |
| #4 No one has ever come clean with his identity yet. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-03-26 1:48:10 PM |
| #3 Hey Tex, don't let little mucky get under your skin. Muck4doo is actually the nom de guerre of one of our regular posters who likes over-the-top satire. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-03-26 1:45:27 PM |
| #2 *muck4doo.... Do me a favor. While you've got your head up your ass....JUMP!.....and see if the rest of you will fit up there too. |
| Posted by: Texan 2004-03-26 1:35:58 PM |
| #1 chainey going be pissed. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-03-26 11:31:14 AM |